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life & Times, page 5

No 1 0 hints at further reduction

German rate cut

raises few
market hopes

By Nicholas Wood, Tom walker and George Sivell

LOSING OUT

TO FEMINISM

Domestic violence is
not a male prerogative,
says Neil Lyndon

Life & Times, page 1

Only more vulgar
attractions will
bring in the crowds

Life & Times, page 5

RUSSELL BOYCE

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FOREIGN exchange
markets reacted with dis-
appointment yesterday to
the Bundesbank’s deci-
sion to reduce its key lend-
ing rate by 0.25 per cent,
but the government held
out the distant prospect of
lower British interest
rates.

Officials in Brussels and
leaders around Europe
praised the cut. less than a
week before the French refer-
endum on the Maastricht
treaty, as an example of co-
operation in the European
Community. German offici-
als voiced confidence that it
would stimulate support for a
“yes” vote.

Opponents of the treaty de-
nounced the cut as too tittle,
too late and said that it was
designed primarily to boost
the French “yes” vote, rather
than to help to revive ailing
economies. Politicians and
the markets had been led to
expect a more substantial cut

Editor told
to lie’

The editor of the Daily
Mirror was ordered to lie
by the late Robert Maxwell,
its publisher, to protect
Nick Davies, the paper's
then foreign editor, who
was later sacked.

An industrial tribunal
was told that when Richard
Stott refused the order from
Maxwell he was threatened
with dismissal....

Rugby charge

Gary Rees, the England
rugby player, broke the Jaw
of a teacher during a
friendly match, it was alle-
ged at Kingston Crown
Court. Rees. 32. denies
inflicting grievous bodily
harm Pag* 6

Lonely life

More people in Britain live
alone than ever before and
the number is forecast to be
nearly eight million by the
end of the century... Page 7

Policy stand

The Liberal Democrat MP
David Alton will not stand
again for the party, in
protest at a decision to
make abortion a policy
issue rather than a matter
of conscience Page 8

Royal award

The Prince of Wales wfll
present awards today to
community groups who
have improved their sur-
roundings, The scheme is
sponsored by The Times.
the Royal institute of Brit-
ish Architects and Business
in the Community Page 24

I INDEX . '.4

when the intention to change
rates was announced on Sun-
day night in conjuction with
the devaluation of the lira.
The Lombard emergency-
funding rate was cut by only
** point to 9.5 per cent How-
ever. the Bundesbank said
that the interest rates normal-
ly paid by banks in their
money market operations
would be reduced by 0.5 per
cent to 8.2 per cent from
tomorrow onwards.

Foreign exchange reaction
to the German cuts was mild -
ty favourable, with die pound
climbing away from its floor
against the mark and the
dollar recovering against the
mark and the pound. But the
pound immediately hit its
floor against the nevriy deval-
ued Italian lira and foreign
exchange dealers said that
the Bank of England had to
intervene.

The Italian devaluation
and German interest rate
cuts were a response to week-
end talks after European cen-
tral banks spent DM24 bil-
lion on keeping the lira in line
last week.

Downing Street sought to
extract the maximum polit-
ical capital from the Bundes-
bank’s decision to reduce its
lending rare. “It has probably
brought forward the time
when British rates can
move.” a spokesman said.
Treasury officials made dear
that any cut in rates would
depend on a strengthening of
staling in the exchange-rate
mechanism.

Although Tory backbench-
ers were initially disappoint-
ed at the minimal nature of
the Bundesbank move, there
was satisfaction in Whitehall
that the markets had given a
generally favourable re-
sponse. with sterling dosing
more than two pfennigs high-
er and the stock market jump-
ing more than 50 points.

Giving a hint of likely
movements in interest rates.
Norman Lamont, the Chan-
cellor, said: “The significant
thing is that the direction is
now dearly downwards after
speculation over the summer
that rates might be going up

or at least not be reduced
until the spring.”

John Smith, the Labour
leader, called for an early cut .
to follow the Goman lead.
But building societies cau-
tioned strongly against expec-
tations of an early mortgage
rate cut

In a surprisingly forthright
asses s me n t of the -German
move. Downing Street sour-
ces said that the cut in the
Lombard rate s tren gt h ened
the chances of a corres-
ponding domestic shift which
would ease the burden on
mortgage-holders and busi-
nesses. Officials are normally
reluctant to speculate on
future interest rate move-
ments, but this convention
was put to one side ts White-
hall launched a concerted ef-
fort to sell the German move
as a vindication of European
monetary co-operation.

Pointing to weekend head-
lines predicting a base rare
rise this week in advance of
the French referendum, a
senior Treasury source said
that the “world had been
turned on its head” by the
Bundesbank’s move.

Downing Street rejected
suggestions that the 0.25 per
cent cut was insignificant.
Continued on page 16, col 2

Full analysis, pages 2-3

Peter Riddell , page 12

Leading ankle, page 13
Breathing space, page 17

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On your marks: traders at the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange reacting to the Bundesbank announcement

After the lira, how vulnerable is sterling?

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GOVERNMENTS always lie
about devaluations and cen-
tral bankers are paid to de-
ceive investors. So the string
of promises broken by the
Italian government and com-
mitments abandoned by the
Bundesbank over the past
two days, should hardly have
been surprising.

Italy's devaluation would
have no bearing on the credi-
bility of John Major's prom-
ises never to devalue sterling.
The Bundesbank's humiliai-
ing U-tum on monetary poli-
ty would be quickly forgotten;
relations between the Ger-
man central bank and the
governments that run the
European exchange-rate
mechanism would become
smoother than ever before.

Thai, at least, was how
some of the oddly gullible
cynics in die City argued yes-
terday morning. But finan-
cial markets are usually more
intelligent than the people
who work in them. In their
mysterious collective wisdom,
they are likdy to draw a num-
ber of more dramatic condu-

Anatole Kaletsky says that confidence in official
promises will be further undermined by the deal
between the Bundesbank and the Italian government,
with wide consequences for sterling and the ERM

sions from the weekend's
events.

First, a sterling devaluation
is now much more likely than
it was 48 hours ago. The
foreign exchange markets
have proved themselves much
stronger than politicians,
even when governments have
been co-operating in a care-
fully structured system.

The ERM was designed to
avoid precisely the events that
occurred last week. When
realignments used to occur in
the ERM, the timing was
supposed to be chosen by
poliicians. not forced by the
markets. But Sunday’s ma-
noeuvre was a dear case of
financial necessity. A world-
wide run on the lira had
drained the $60 billion of
international reserves once
held by the Bank of Italy to a
paltry $10 billion or so, leav-

ing the centra] bank almost
bust

If the markets could drain
Italy's reserves, they could do
just the same to Britain’s. At
around $40 billion, these are
actually smaller, especially in
relation to the amount of
trading in sterling, than were
Italy’s.

Even if Mr Major were
wilting to put his prime min-
istership at stake to defend
sterling's ERM exchange
rate, he could no more guar-
antee the Bank of England
against a run on sterling than
King Canute could command
the tides. Until Sunday night
this was not entirely dear.
The ERM was supposed to
offer its member nations the
omnipotence Canute knew he
did not possess. ERM mem-
bers were supposed to enjoy a
guarantee of mutual support.

The Bundesbank could in
theory offer unlimited re-
sources to combat a run on
any of the weak currencies,
simply by flooding the market
with marks.

In Italy’s case, however, the
ERM's promises of unlimited
support proved to be hollow
— and the Bundesbank’s
price for maintaining its co-
operation was the devalua-
tion announced on Sunday
night There is no reason to
suppose that the Bundesbank
would treat Mr Major's pro-
mises not to devalue as any
more sacrosanct

The second important con-

clusion from Sunday's re-
alignment is that, even if
another devaluation is avoid.-
ed in the near future, the
present ERM rates are no
longer fixed in stone. Until
Sunday night, the ERM had
managed to defend its mem-
ber currendes against re-
alignments for five years.
Investors and politirians be-
came accustomed to die as-
sumption that currencies
would remain unchanged for
the indefinite future.

But if the French vote •’no"
in their referendum on Maas-
tricht, the entire mechanism
Continued on page 16, col 5

Bomb enquiry scientists divided Vance shocked by snub

By Our Foreign Staff

By Stewart Tendler. crime correspondent

SCIENTISTS reviewing the
forensic evidence in the Annie
Maguire bomb factory case
are divided over the likeli-
hood that the defendants'
hands could have been inno-
cently contaminated by
nitroglycerine.

The divisions were dis-
closed yesterday when the
scientists* report was pub-
lished with the reconvening of
the enquiry by Sir John May,
the former appeal court
judge, into the Maguire Sev-

en and Guildford Four cases.
The scientists were commis-
sioned by Sir John after con-
troversy over how tests for
nitroglycerine on the seven
proved positive.

At the trial in 1976. scien-
tists claimed that nitro-
glycerine had been found on
the hands of six men and on
the gloves of Mrs Maguire. It
was d aimed that traces of the
explosive under fingernails
could only have been caused
by the defendants kneading

explosive. Two years ago
during hearings by Sir John
this suggestion was repud-
iated by the independent ad-
viser to the enquiry. The
contamination could have
come from something like a
towel used by someone in the
Maguire home in north
London and the Crown had
also failed to show that the
chemical which proved posi-
tive in tests was nitro-gJycer-
ine. The Court of Appeal
Continued on page 16. col I

CYRUS Vance, the United
Nations peace envoy, ex-
pressed shock yesterday at the
refusal of President Izetbeg-
ovic of Bosnia to take part in
talks in Geneva on Friday.

Fred Eckhard, the UN
spokesman, said the Bosnian
leader had given Mr Vance a
“solemn personal commit-
ment” to an end and he was
still expected to do so or send
representatives. Radovan Ka-
radzic, the leader of the Bos-
nian Serbs, also threatened
that he would not attend.

Fighting flared in Sarajevo
yesterday, and a French of-
ficer with UN forces there
said heavy firing came from
seven of the 11 positions
where Serbian weapons were
concentrated for UN moni-
toring. Colonel Armel Davout
was not certain who had fired
first, but suggested that the
Serbs might have fired in
response to Bosnian infantry
attacks aimed at breaking the
Serb siege of the city.

Sarajevo boycott, page 9

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BY TIM JONES

THE daughter of an executive member
of the Palestine liberation Organis-
ation said in the High Court yesterday
that David Mellor. the heritage minis-
ter, used to visit her in one of her
London homes to chat over tea and
coffee.

Mona Bauwens. 31. is suing for libel
over an article in The People which
disclosed details of a holiday that Mr
Mellor and his wife and children spent
with her in a villa she rented in
Marbella during the Gulf conflict. She
nfaime the article cast her as a “social
outcast and leper”.

The court heard that Mr Mefloi's
airline tickets for the holiday at the villa
had been paid for by Mrs Bauwens.
Afterwards Mr Mellor was telephoned
by Mark Thomas, a People -reporter,
who had doorstepped the villa.

In a transcript of a telephone conver-

sation with the reporter, Mr Mellor said
he was “not the least bit embarrassed”
about his holiday arrangements and
advised the reporter “as an old sokfier"
to be careful about any adverse com-
ments he might write bat said if be was
determined he should “publish and be
dammed”.

Mrs Bauwens said she first met Mr
Mellor at a Medical Aid for Palestine
charily dinner In 1988 and met his wife
about a week later.

George Carman. QG for the defence,
asked whether it was correct that she
saw Mr Mellor alone more frequently
than she saw him with his wife. She
answered: “I wouldn’t say that was nec-
essarily right”

Mr Carman:" Is it right Mr Mellor
visited you on a social basis in the
daytime without his wife?”

Mrs Bauwens: “Oh yes, he would
drop around at Chesterfield House and
have a cup of tea or coffee.”

r. Mr Mellor said

Mr Carman asked whether she had
visited a flat provided for Mr Mellor by
the government in Kings Yard, Mayfair.
He dropped the question after he was
asked by Mr Justice Drake what its
relevance was, but said it went to the
development of the friendship between
Mr Mellor and Mrs Bauwens.

The article described Mrs Bauwens’
father. Jaweed A1 Ghussein. as the
PLO’s “paymaster” and asked Marga-
ret Thatcher, then the prime minister,
“just what would make your minister
blush with shame”. Mrs Bauwens said:
"This article says very clearly that
because I am my father's daughter, no
decent person, including a government
minister, should be with me.”

The People, its former editor Richard
Stott, Mr Thomas and Mirror Group
Newspapers deny libel. The trial
continues.

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Why homebuyer
must wait for
lenders to act

By Lindsay Cook, money editor

YESTERDAY'S cot in Ger-
man interest rates is unlike-
ly to bring any immediate
relief to homebuyers.

Lenders are waiting for a
reduction in British bank
base rates before they wffl

consider a cut in mortgage

rates and the bank rate cut
wi H have to be more than
the German 0.25 percent-
age point reduction.

Abbey National, the sec-
ond largest mortgage lend-
er. said: ‘Today's German
rate cot was less than was

being trailed We are watch-
ing but not waiting.” Die
bank was not expecting any
imminent base rate cut

Bank base rate is at 1 0 per
cent and standard mortgage
rates are around 10.65 per
cent. Special offers on large
loans and to first time
buyers are lower.

The Building Societies As-
sociation said the the
Bundesbank cut was “a
signal in the right direc-
tion". It was not expecting a
reduction in mortgage rates
until base rates come down
and even then a small cut in
bank base rates might not
bring any mortgage reduc-

tion. Building societies have
been in strong competition
with National Savings aO
year for savers’ money and
cannot afford to mate their
savings rates uncompetitive.

The Halifax Building So-
ciety. the largest mortgage
lender, said yesterday that it
was waiting to see if there
would be any change in
bank base rates and for the
outcome of the French refer-
endum on the Maastricht
agreement.

Lenders have almost giv-
en up on the housing market
for 1992. There was barely a
perceptible improvement in
sales during the spring and
summer. A cut in October
would be too late to affect
the market before next
spring.

Lenders were reluctant to
talk in detail about when the
next mortgage rate move
might be and whether it
would be down or op, for
fear of being wrong. They
agreed that it was too early
to say whether the German
move would lead to a mort-
gage rate cut.

When Britain entered the
European exchange rate
mechanism, mortgage rales
were 15.4 per cent Stan-
dard mortgage rates are
now 10.65 percent

Market-makers take
heat out of trading

By Michael Clark

IN THE electronic depths of
London's stock market it
was the market-makers sit-
ting at their banks of
screens who had the unenvi-
able task of controlling the
violent fluctuations in share
prices when dealings re-
sumed after the Italian de-
valuation and subsequent
softening of German inter-
est rates.

The deal struck between
the European finance minis-
ters at the weekend took

wimcm.

everyone In the City by
surprise and left market-
makers little time toprepare
for the expected rush by
investors the next morning.
The difficulty was that the
Bundesbank was known to
be preparing to cut its rates
but by an unknown amount
Market-makers are the
market wholesalers who buy
and sell stocks in com-
panies. They dictate events
on the stock market from
day to day. Talking to other

raaiket-rnakers and brokers
by telephone, they display
the price at which they axe
prepared to buy and sell a
particular security via their
computer screens.

Since the general election
last April the stock market
has been in steady decline
with the economy slipping
deeper into recession. The
5ist move of market-makers
at Sam yesterday was to
mark prices sharply higher
in order to deter the expect-
ed avalanche of buying from
investors cheered by hopes
of a softening of interest
rates. The absence of buying
orders showed that the mar-
ket-makers’ tactics had
worked.

Violent price fluctuations
can be financial suicide for
market-makers if they axe
caught wrongfooted in a
trading situation. By the
dose of business last night,
most of the big firms were
hailing yesterday’s actions
as a success. No one had
made or lost or fortune. AD
of them would be back in
business this morning.

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Interest Rates

National Westminster Bank announces
the following interest rates,
effective from 15 September 1992:

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Net

Interest

per

annum

Gross

Interest

per

annum”

Gross

CAJLt

6.94%

Crown Reserve

3 Months’ notice
£50,000 and above

9.25%

9.58%

6.^5%

*25.000 - £49,999

9-00%

9-31%

6 .47%

£10,000 - £24,999

8.625%

8.91%

6-09%

£2,000 - £9,999

8.125%

8.38%

6.47%

Premium Reserve
Instant Access
£25.000 and above

8.625%

8.91%

6.19%

£10,000 - £24.999

8.25%

8.51%

5.81%

£2,000 - £9,999

7.75%

7.98%

4.31%

Special Reserve

Instant Access
£25,000 and above

5.75%

5-88%

4.13%

£10.000 - £24,999

5.50%

5.61%

3.94%

£2.000 - £9,999

5.25%

5.35%

3.75%

£500 - £1.999

5.00%

5.09%

4.50%

First Reserve

Instant Access
£1,000 and above

6.00%

6.14%

4.13%

£500 - £999

5.50%

5.61%

3-75%

£250 - £499

5.00%

5.09%

3.38%

£100 - £249

4.50%

4.58%

3.00%

£0 - £99

4.00%

4.06%

4.22%

Investment Account#

6 Months’ Notice#

5.625%

5.70%

4.13%

3 Months' Notice#

5.50%

5.58%

4.13*

Monthly Income
Accouiu#§

5.50%

5.64%

• Where appropriate, Basic Rate Tix will be deducted from
interest creaked or paid (which may be reclaimed by resident
non-taxpayers). Subject to the required registration form, interest
will be paid gross.

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on your savings if the interest payments are retained in tile account.

# Existing Account Holders only.

§ Monthly Income Account effective from l October 1992.

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Behind armed guards, in a concrete
HQ, they threw a lifeline to the lira

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The listening Bundesbank: Helmut Schlesinger, left, the bank president, and Hans Tietmeyer. his deputy, answer questions in Frankfurt yesterday

At 9.30 yesterday morning,
anxious politicians and fright-
ened investors around the
world were waiting for die
words of one man.

Helmut Schlesinger. the
quiet professorial president of
the Bundesbank, had prom-
ised to reveal the true nature of
die deal he had hatched in
secrecy over the weekend with
the governments of the 12 EC
countries. At 9.50 the world
was still waiting. Twenty min-
utes is a long time when at
state are hundreds of billions
of pounds and the fates of
governments.

While Herr Schlesinger re-
mained locked in the Bundes-
bank's council diamber,
selling his deal to the 1 7 otter
fiercely independent Bun-
desbank directors, his spokes-
man oould reveal only one
thing to the waiting reporters.
All rumours to the effect that
Herr Schlesinger had re-
signed weretotally false.

Die moment was one of
many elements of black com-
edy since the meeting little
more titan a a week ago in
rain-sodden Brocket Hall in
Hertfordshire, when the Euro-
pean Community’s foreign
ministers had solemnly
agreed that a “No" vote in
next Sundays Maastricht ref-
erendum in France would be
an “earthquake".

As the ministers flew back to
their capitals, officials of the
Cammunitys secretive Mone-
tary Committee were already
putting the finishing touches
to an announcement designed
to prevent a different quake
that had already started to
rumble. On Friday, the Bank
of Italy and the Bundesbank
had spent many billions of
marks in a fruitless attempt to
stop the lira touching its ERM
“floor” as investors and multi-
national companies dumped
their lire.

Herr Schlesinger. the
Bundesbank president, bad
had enough — and the Bank
of Italy agreed. Something
had to be done to stop the run
on the lire; even if it meant,
swallowing the solemn prom-

George Brock
and Wolfgang
Mondial! tell .
how six weeks of
secrecy ended
with a truculent
Bundesbank
forced into a
decision to shave
the base rate

ises not to devalue. The
oommuniqug from Brussels
unleashed a burst of political
and financial optimism de-
signed to give die "Yes” cam-
paign in France a much-
needed boost By breakfast-
time yesterday, financial
markets were zigzagging
wildly at the prospect of a
substantia] rate cut and im-
pressed by the politicians'
apparent masteiy of Germa-
ny’s truculent central bankers.

When the rate figures skid-
ded across the dealing rooms
screens, the audience was dis-
appointed. The Lombard,
similar to Britain’s base rate,
was cut by only a quarter or a
percentage point The dis-
count rate fell by only half a
point

The initial agreement to act
had been reached on Sunday,
during telephone conversation
between Herr Schlesinger and
the members of his central
coundL Judging by later
events, the plan was not ap-
proved unanimously- The
rate cut seems to indicate a
subtle shift in the balance of
power in the central council
away from the hardliners and
towards the moderates.

The eventual agreement to
cut the Lombard rate by only a
quarter of a point indicates
strongly how hard was the
bargaining that preceded
Herr Schlesinger’s final belat-
ed appearance.

Why had the hardliners
lost? The week’s trading had
shown beyond any doubt that
central banks could not take

much more. On Tuesday.
Finland decoupled the mark-
ka from die rest of Europe,
devaluing for the second time
in a year. The next day,
Sweden put up short term
interest rales to 75 per cent,
desperate not to follow the
Finnish devaluation. Money
was pouring into Germany.
The Bundesbank could take
no more without risking its
role as the fiercest inflation-
fighter in the world.

The roots of the crisis go
back to the early summer. Tne
ground beneath the politi-
cians’ feet had been shaken on
June 2. when 50,000 Danish
voters swung their national
referendum against the Maas-
tricht treaty. President Mitter-
rand of France was so sure
that the Danish result was an
aberration that he promptly
astonished his ministers in
Paris by calling a referendum
designed to split his conserva-
tive opposition and to put the
treaty on monetary ana polit-
ical union back on track.

The effects of his mistake
have been fed in every dealing
room in Europe for the past
month. The French socialist
government^ campaign for
the treaty has been trivial,
confused and late into the
field. Just after lunch on
Tuesday 25 August, Mien
most of Europe was still on the ■
beach, the traders in the Paris
bourse heard word that the
next day's papers would cany
the first poll showing a narrow
majority for the anti-Maas-
tricht campaign.

The poll turned up the heat
on a currency system that was
already struggling to retain its
credibility in the face of a
brutal recession. Seeing forthe
first time a real chance that
European monetary union
might once again be post-
poned, traders began selling
the ERM’s neatest members,
the lira and sterling, and
buying reliable marks.

The Bank of Italy com-
pounded the trouble by an
expensively ambitious attempt
to intervene and hold the lira
to within 1 per cent of its

StMON WALKgt

COUNTDOWN TO

September 9: Stockholm

Sweden raises overnight
interest rate from 24% to 75%

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EC finance ministers'
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September 14: Frankfurt
Bundesbank cuts Lombard
lending rate by quarter of a
print to S.5%. The central
discount rate is cut by half
point to 8.25

September 8: Baals
Helmut Schlesinger,
Bundesbank president,
denies making Bath

commitment not to raise
Interest rates

September 1 0r Rome
Giuftanc Amato, Italian
PM, faSStogain
emergency powers from
hta parliament to
overhaul economy

Business as usual: Norman Lament arriving at the Treasury yesterday

central rate against the mark.
The chance of a realignment :
hovers over any strain in the-
ERM and Ifotys representa- .
lives on the ECs Monetary
Committee took soundings
several weeks ago on the
possibility of adjusting rates.
They received the regular re-
fusal from Paris. For four
years, die French government
has been the sternest defender
of the ERM’s rigorous disci-
pline. Paris insists dial the
System be preserved as a stable
training ground for currencies
en route for total merger.

But the Maastricht treaty's
timetable for a single currency
had been laid down by politi-
cians and not tty banters. EC
governments, France foremost
among them, saw economic •
and monetary union as the
best restraint available for a
newly reunified Germany.
The signing of the treaty
loaded heavy assumptions
about eventual switch to a
single currency onto a fragile
system for stabilising ex-
change rates. The events of the
last ten days have discovered
the limits of the system. A
“No" in France may test the
ERM to destruction.

The pound was under pres- .
sure alongside the lira, de-
fended by a combination of
assertions by die Chancellor of
the Exchequer that there
would be neither domestic
devaluation nor ERM realign-
ment By the time that EC
finance ministers gathered for
an informal weekend in Bath
nine days ago. many of them
were faring rising tides of
criticism at home over high
interest cates and unemploy-
ment Commentators and ha-
rassed ministers laid the
blame at the door of the
German central bank. The
gnomes of Zurich, favourite
scapegoats of cartoonists and
politicians in the 1960s, have
been replaced by the
Bundesbank backwoodsmen.

The Bundesbank operates
from purpose-built concrete
headquarters in a drab north-
ern suburb of Frankfort,
which is surrounded by armed
guards. Inside the main room,
the 17 men meet every other.
Thursday in a ritual dial
decides the fete of Germany's,
and of late also of Europe's,
economies. Once appointed to
what is normally a seven-year
term, the council members
can.no longer be dismissed, a
measures designed to guaran-
tee independence.

Almost absolute power over
interest rates has given this
council its almost legendary
mystique. No two economise
ever agree totally on economic
policy, and this is also true of-
the Bundesbank’s council
members. It appears to be the
case that the regional repre-
sentatives tend to be the most
hawkish.

The most notorious of the
hawks is Lothar MflIJer, head
of die stale central bank in
Bayarfa M aprivate speech he
gave in Italy recently, he gave
a rigorous and uncompromis-
ing defence of Germany's
tough interest rate policy, ar-
guing fiercely and somewhat
undiplomatically that Germ-
any was not going to rescue
those who do not help them-
selves. The Italian hosts were
not amused, but in the end
Herr Muffei was wrong.

By yesterday morning, it
was dear that the Bundesbank
had to be dragged kicking and
screaming into cutting its rate.
Herr Schlesinger himself said
that the decision was “dictated
by foreign arcumstances".

What ready matters is that
the German Bundesbank wOl
become a more cooperative
player in European econom-
ics. The German central bank
will remain Europe’s roost
important central bank, but it
will no longer play the role of
the bogeyman, die role of the
unassailable, all-powerful in-
stitution thar loves to be de-
spised by the others. While it
would be an exaggeration to
daim that the events prove

that the Bundesbank can be
easily pushed around, it is true
nevertheless that when under
intense pressure from ks polit-
ical masters in Bonn, the
Bundesbank caves in.

The man with perhaps the
highest stake of all in the *
success of the French referen-
dum is Jacques Ddois. presi-
dent of the European Com-
mission and author of the
timetable for monetary union.

One of his advisers explained
the symbolism of the realign-
ment on Sunday night “The
campaign in France shows l
thax what voters don't like is'
chaos in die currency markets,
and the Community being!
able to do nothing about it'
This is the Community acting,
together — acting incredibly,
together."

Next Sunday, the voters of,
France wifi issue their verdict,
on the management of Eu-
rope’s monies. ;

Peter RiddeD
and Diary, page 12
Leading artide, page 13^ ,
Breathing space, page 17- r 1
Stock markets, page 20’
Italy's impotence, page 21."

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THE TIMES TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1992

ERM & LOAN RATES 3

Paris hails Frankfurt for acting in the spirit of Maastricht

reassured
i markets

FRENCH pro-Maastricht
leaders and the Paris financial
markets yesterday greeted the
drop in German interest rates
as a potential life-saver in next
Sundays referendum as a
prison strike and criminal
charges against a senior So-
cialist further dented the tar-
nished image of the Mitter-
rand administration.

‘They've put the interests of
Europe ahead of their own
interests. The spirit of Maas-
tricht has prevailed over purely
national interests," Pierre
Beregovoy, the prime minis-
ter. said of Germany after
prices on the depressed Paris
stock market had jumped by
3.5 per cent in reaction to the
Bundesbank’s move. Michel
Sapin. the finance minister,
said: “A yes in Maastricht
means the chance that we can
drop our own interest rates.”

M Beregovoys relief was
echoed from Maastricht cam-
paigners across the political
spectrum as the campaign

The pro-M aastricht lobby is wooing
voters with hints that French rates might
also drop if they vote ‘yes’ on Sunday,
Charles Bremner writes from Paris

accelerated towards its dimax
with an outbreak of political
infighting The prime minis-
ter also reassured the markets
that President Mitterrand was
fast recovering from his pros-
tate operation last Friday and
was effectively running the
country from his hospital bed.

The Bundesbank's cut in
the Lombard rate may only
have been a quarter of a per
cent, but as a gesture it could
not have been more powerful,
given that Germany has been
brandished by the "no" cam-
paigners as a bullying bogey-
man who will walk over a
weak France if Maastricht is
approved. German 'imran-

Bundesbank lifeline
' leaves harassed MPs
still treading water

By Nicholas Wood, political correspondent

ION

THE Bundesbank's decision
to shave only 0.25 per cent off
its key lending rate proved a
disappointment to leading
members of the pro- and anti-
European factions inside the
Conservative party.

Tory M Ps have spent much
of their summer recess being
badgered by supporters and
constituents protesting about
the length of the recession and
penal interest rates. Waiting
up yesterday morning to news-
paper headlines predicting a
shock cut in German lending
rates, they must have thought
Frankfurt had belatedly derid-
ed to throw them a lifeline. In
the event, they found them-
selves still treading water.

John Town end, the Euro-
sceptic chairman of the
backbench finance committee.

Gould and
rebels
back off

By Phoip Webster,

CHIEF POLITICAL

CORRESPONDENT

SHADOW cabinet rebels
backed away from a confron-
tation with John Smith over
Labour’s economic and Euro-
pean policies yesterday.

They heeded an appeal
from Mr Smith, the party
leader, to delay debating La-
bour’s stance on a British ref-
erendum on Maastricht and a
realignment of the European

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exchange-rate mechanism
(ERM) until after Sunday's
French vote on the treaty .They
agreed to hold their fire until
Labour's national executive
committee meets on Wednes-
day week, when the leadership
will put forward a new pos-
ition on Europe to take ac-
count of the Danish and
French refercndums. Mr
Smith, however, made plain
that the Euro-sceptics in his
shadow cabinet headed by
Bryan Gould, John Prescott
David Blunkett and Michael
Meacher. would be expected
to abide by collective responsi-
bility once the new stance had
been endorsed.

Mr Gould. Mr Prescott and
Mr Blunkett members of the
executive, did not take the
opportunity yesterday to vote
for amendments put forward
by Labour's far left calling for
a referendum and withdrawal
from the ERM. Some on the
left claimed that their state-
ments had been delivered with
an eye to the imminent nat-
ional executive committee
elections. Dennis Skinner,
MP for Bolsover. said: “It
happens every year at this
time. They had the chance
today to vote for the referen-
dum and they did not take it

Mr Smith appeared last
night to have won a breathing
space in his effort to hold the
party together on Europe. If
the French vote "yes", his
position will be eased. 1 [ they
vote “no", the treaty will be
dead and some of his prob-
lems will disappear. But it was
made plain on Mr Smith s
behalf that he remains op-
posed to a referendum on
Maastricht, irrespective of the
French outcome.

Earlier yesterday Mr Gould
underlined his support for a
realignment within the ERM
which Mr Smith opposes. He
told BBC radio that the Ger-
man cut was so small that it
was just a "rsture.

said he was disappointed by
the size of the reduction and
suggested it owed more to
President Mitterrand's polit-
ical difficulties over Maas-
tricht than Europe’s economic
woes.

More surprisingly, Peter
Temple-Morris, a leading pro-
European and MP for Leom-
inster, also sounded battle
weary. He believed most back-
benchers would be disappoint-
ed the Germans had not been
bolder in cutting borrowing
costs. Although “something
was better than nothing”, be
thought Bnissefc and its allies
had oversold the move and it
might have been better if they

Leaders call
for action
not words

By Robin Oakley

POLITICAL EDITOR

THE liberal Democrat lead-
ership yesterday backed the
government’s efforts to avoid
a devaluation of the pound.
But although Faddy Ashdown
and Alan Berth, the party’s
economic spokesman, won

support for their espousal of a

public works programme to
lift Britain out of recession
there was sharp rank and file
criticism of the leadership for
backing what some called an
unrealistic exchange rate for
the pound and for penalising
Britain’s manufacturers by
“apeing” Treasury and Bank
of England policy.

Mr Beith warned the par-
ty's Harrogate conference
that the pound was still not
out of trouble despite Germa-
ny's interest rate cut He
urged Chancellor Norman
Lament to resist devaluation
calls, saying such a move
would force up interest rates
and damage confidence.

Mr Beith said it was a
fallacy and “dangerous non-
sense” to believe that devalua-
tion would solve the UK’s
underlying economic prob-
’ Jems. “Even with today’s cut
in interest rates by the

Bundesbank, the pound is not
out of trouble. With promi-
nent backbench Tories and
Labour shadow cabinet mem-
bers calling for devaluation,
the Chancellor needs more
than words to demonstrate
the pound is not going to
follow the lira.”

But a string of floor speak-
ers objected to the leadership
line. Margaret Sharp, from
Guildford, complaining of the
de-industrialisation of Brit-
ain, said that Britain had
entered the ERM at too high
a rate. Ross Finnic, chairman
of die party’s Scottish eco-
nomic panel, accused the
party of apeing the views of
the Bank of England, the
Treasury and the Tories. Hie
party was tying itself to a
policy not for workers, but for
exchange dealers.

But Baroness Seear, a
liberal Democrat treasury
spokesman in die House of
Lords, rebuffed delegates who
demanded devaluation.
Winding up the debate, she
said: “It would immediately 1
put up interest rates because
people would be afraid that
one- devaluation would be
followed by anejher.”

had not rushed out a string of
statements the night before.

“From the point of view of
the French referendum, it
gives the ‘antis’ more than the
others. It underlines the reluc-
tance of the Germans to bale
people out," he said Mr
Temple-Morris, added that
the Deutschmark was becom-
ing a single currency by de-
fault The turmoil on the
foreign exchanges underlined
the case for pressing ahead
more quickly with Maastricht
and its Communitywide
agreement on economic and
monetary union.

But the prime minister
brushed aside backbench
doubts, holding out tire pros-
pect of lower United Kingdom
interest rates as he sought to
extract the maximum political
advantage from the cut in the
Lombard rate. Tn a surprising-
ly forthright assessment of tire
German move. Downing
Street sources said that the
0.25 per cent reduction
strengthened the chances of a
corresponding domestic shift,
which would ease the burden
on mortgage-holders and
businesses.

Norman Laraont, the Chan-
cellor. was putting a brave face
on the limited extent of the
German cut Aides said he was
"not disappointed" by the
Bundesbank’s caution and the
reduction showed that EC
pressure could pay dividends.
Mr Lament was said to have
been involved in Sunday’s
negotiations that led to yester-
day's easing of German rates.
“He has been going after this
and he’s got what he wanted.”
one source said.

Officials are normally reluc-
tant to speculate on future
interest rate movements, but
this convention was put to one
side as Whitehall launched a
conceited effort to sell the
German move as a vindica-
tion of European monetary
cooperation. Pointing to week-
end headlines predicting a
base rate rise this week in
advance of the French referen-
dum on the Maastricht treaty
on Sunday, a senior treasury
source said the “world had
been turned on its head" by
the Bundesbank’s move.

Downing Street led the
propaganda offensive by re-
jecting sugestions that the
0.25 per cent cut was insignifi-
cant. People had had exagger-
ated expectations of the likely
size of the Bundesbank reduc-
tion. It was the first time the
Germans had lowered the cost
of borrowing for five years and

the direction of German rates
was now “firmly downwards".
"There has been a significant
change of mood. We are now
talkin g about reductions in
rates throughout Europe," an
aide said.

John Watts, the centrist
Tory chairman of the all-party
Commons treasury commit-
tee, was one of the few to catch
Whitehall’s mood, saying the
German move was helpful as
it indicated interest rates were
on a downward path.

sigenoe had badly hampered
the effors of the “yes" cam-
paign to portray ■ a future
Europe of sweet- harmony.
Milking the political profits to
a maximum. M B6r£govoy
said French interest rates
would not be touched until
after the referendum and. of
course, if the vote is no, the
financial crisis will probably
obliterate any benefiL
The good news from Frank-
furt reported by u> Monde
under the headline: “Bundes-
bank Votes Maastricht”, di-
verted some heat from the two
big embarrassments for the
Mitterrand administration.
With electoral opinion report-

ed to be highly volatile and
almost evenly split the fate of
Europe could hang on such
domestic vagaries. Officers in
almost all the country’s pris-
ons vowed to continue a three-
day old strike in spite of an
approaching showdown with
the government Riot troops
were called in to restore order
in several prisons. Michel
Vauzelle, the justice minister,
declared the officers’ action,
prompted by fears for their
security, illegal. Their com-
plaints that the government is
soft on crime are playing into
the hands of the right-wing
“no” campaign, led by
Charles Pasqua, the Gaullist
Philippe de Villi ers, a dissi-
dent member of the centrist
UDF and Jean-Marie Le Pen,
the chief of the extremist
National Front. M de Villieis
is depicting a mass breakout at
the Clairvaux prison on Friday
as typical of the kind of
criminal anarchy that would
follow implementation of the

Maastricht treaty.

The timing yesterday of the
indictment of Henri Emman-
uel!!. the pariiamentaty speak-
er. could not have been worse
for the Mitterrand adminis-
tration. M Emmanuelli was
charged by an investigating
judge in Britanny with receiv-
ing stolen funds and influ-
ence-selling on behalf of the
socialists. The charges involve
his time as party treasurer ina
period when it is alleged to
have financed its campaigns
through kick-backs from firms
in return for public contracts.

Though widely expected,
tiie action reopens the saga of
financial corruption that taint-
ed the Socialists in the late
1980s. M Beregovoy and his
government have denounced,
the judge's action as politically
motivated and pledged their
support for M Emmanuelli
After leaving the judge's office,
M Emmanuelli said he was
the victim of a political plot

The Socialists' case was not

Ringing the changes: a City trader on hearing the announcement of the German cut

Dealers mark the occasion
with suitably wild rumour

Temple-Moms: move
oversold by BriMsels

HAVING been unexpectedly
promised a “significant and
general" cut in German in-
terest rates on Sunday night,
many people in the City felt a
little short-changed when
the Bundesbank jiggled
around in its pocket yester-
day morning and came up
with only a quarter-point
reduction in the key Lom-
bard rate.

It was like checking the
football pools coupon on
Sunday night to find you had
eight score draws and then
waking up after a restless
night of anticipation to dis-
cover that millions of others
had managed to tick eight
score draws, too, and that
the Kfe-changing jackpot
was not going to change your
life after afl.

London’s currency dealing
rooms were fuller than usual,
earlier than usual as traders
braced for a jitteiy week
before Sunday’s French vote
on Maastridil By 7am.
when Reuter screens are
normally warming up, they
had been glowing green fora
while as dealers digested
fresh news along with their
croissants.

Some glowed more bright-
ly than others. “The first I
heard of it" said one of the
City's top currency gurus,
"was when I got home on
Sunday night and a journal-
ist was phoning for my
reaction. To what? f asked
like a wafly

Far Eastern markets had
already done the necessary
arithmetic while Europe
slept and by the time London
started to trade, the dollar,
the mark and sterling were
already dancing in a new

Joe Joseph was
up early to see
the money men
dancing to the
Bundesbank’s
new tune

formation in response to the
Italian lira’s devaluation and
the prospect of a cut in
German interest rates. But
the currency dealing room at
Midland Montagu, ovep
looking the Thames, was still
buzzing more loudly than
usual with the babble of the
bank’s customers calling,
customers asking to buy Or
sell currencies at yesterday’s
rates, traders buying and
selling currencies with other
traders around the world. A
cut for afl.

Then the shout rang out
from David Simmonds, who
tells the rest of Midland’s
foreign exchange traders
where different currencies
axe heading. He announced
that the Bundesbank had cut
the Lombard rate, but by
only a quarter of a point

The signal could have been
stronger many had been
expecting anything up to a
one-point reduction. But
some had braced for no cut^
at all in the Lombard rate,
just a trim in Gemany’s less
influential discount rate. At
least it marked a turn in the
road for German interest
rates.

Some felt cheated, some
relieved. Most were standing
up and barking at each

other, or down the black
telephones clamped to their
ears, the dealing room's usu-
al reaction to tension.

“Steiiing fell to 2.78
marks as a result of the cut
being smaller than expect-
ed," said a dealer. “People
are ploughing into the dollar
because there is a feeling
that the differentia] between
US and German interest
rates is narrowing and is
unlikely to widen. The dollar
looks cheap against the
mark.”

The City than reacted the
way it often does when it has
been dished up some big
news but still feels a little
peckish: it invented a wild
rumour. The story suddenly
erupted that Helmut Schle-
singer, president of the
Bundesbank, had resigned
at the shame of it afl.

“We’ve never had the
Bundesbank cutting its in-
terest rates like this before,"
Mr Simmonds explained.
‘The Bundesbank 1ms lost
some of its credibility. That's
what fed tiie resignation
rumour.”

It probably won’t be the
last rogue tale that hits the
City this week. “I don’t
expect any immediate cut in
UK interest rates.” said Mr
Simmonds as the mood
around him turned from
major to minor.

“We'D have to wait for the
Maastricht vote in France.
Being cynical there is the
possibility of a quarter-point
interest rate cut in Britain
just before the Tory party
conference."

Sounds like something
that will bring City dealers to
their feet again.

helped by the publication of
claims yesterday by a senior
figure involved in the scandal
that he had paid bills, some for
M Mitterrand, and helped
feed slush money from busi-
nessmen to the' party. The
allegations were made by Mi-
chel Reyt. the head of one of
two Paris consultancy firms
used by the Socialists. He was
released last Thursday after
200 days in detention during
which he was questional by
the same Breton judge.
Renaud Van Ruymbeke. M
Reyt, who faces charges of
influence selling, said M
Mitterrand's party had made
him a scapegoat. He said he
had acted as a middleman
between businessmen in
search of contracts and party
leaders. “Once the head of a
company won the contract, the
politicians would say to them:
’Monsieur, perhaps you
should say thank you to the
party 1 ." he told the dally Le
Parisien. He said he had also

paid about E200 towards the
printing of election posters for
M Mitterrand in 19SS and
ihe same for other members of
his government

On the other side of the
spectrum. The chieftains of
France's main right-wing par-
ties intensified a campaign
that has shunted European
questions aside and assumed
the tones of a combat for party
leadership and eventually the
presidency of France. Com-
mentators concluded that
Charles Pasqua. the Gaullist
baron and crusader for a no
vote, was making a bid to oust
Jacques Chirac as chief of the
neo-Gaullist RPR party.

A majority of party mem-
bers disapprove of M Chirac's
pro- Maastricht position. Ac-
cording to the pundits and
pollsters, the outcome of the
referendum hangs largely on
M Chirac's ability to sway
enough reluctant RPR voters
over to his side of the fence to
tip the balance.

Amato under fire
for wasting funds

From John Phillips in rome

ITALIAN newspapers criti-
cised Ghiliano Amato, the
prime minister, yesterday for
not opting for devaluation
sooner, questioning whether
his government is strong
enough to handle the next
phase of economic shock
therapy.

“We can only hope that
Amato returns to the determ-
ination and energy shown in
the first days of his mandate.”
said Mario Pendinelll the
editor of II Messaggero. “If
this does not happen we could
find ourselves faced with not
only a government crisis but a
crisis of the republic”

In the view of II Giomale, of
Milan, “this derision repre-
sents a defeat not only for the
government and tiie Bank of
Italy, who wagered their pres-
tige on the defence of the old
parity, but for the entire coun-
try, which has lost another
slice of its already scarce
credibility”, la Stampa's
headline said simply “Italy
surrenders". ■■

Coniere della Sera pub-
lished a foil column of 14
offidal denials of plans to
devalue rijade since early Au-
gust as the country was blecf
dry of 30.000 billion lire of
currency reserves. The central
bank had consistently opposed
devaluation as potentially in-
flationary and a short-term
palliative that would encour-
age the four coalition parties to
shirk the deep cuts in govern-
ment spending needed for
Italy to quality for European
monetary union.

Some commentators said
the devaluation may have
helped Italians to understand
the seriousness of their eco-
nomic plight and could im-
prove support for the request
Signor Amato made last week
for three years of emergency

powers to fine tune the econo-
my without approval (rum
parliament. II Giomale said
that “if he already had more
powers, perhaps this debacle
could haw been avoided".
Political experts agree that
Signor Amato can only restore
his battered prestige if he
manages to push his demand
for special powers through an
unwilling parliament where
he has only a 1 6 seat majority.

Luigi Abete. the employers*
federation chairman, yester-
day described devaluation as a
“drug” that would be insuffi-
cient unless the government

^ . ITALY

wields the axe on public
spending in its budget for
1993. to be presented to
parliament by the end of the
month. Signor Amato has
made a start by introducing
sweeping reforms but many
economists believe these do
not go- far enough;

Signor Amato was expected
to address the Chamber of
Deputies tomorrow to outline
his request fin-, emergency
powers that he has revised
after reservations by President
Scalfaro. Coniere della Sera
said that if he cannot revise his
request convincingly lie might
as well resign.

The mood in parliament
yesterday was far from tender.
Maurizio Gasparri, of the neo-
fascist Soda! Movement
poured scorn on Signor
Amato’s attempt to outline the
positive aspects of the 7 per
cent devaluation. “Presenting
the drastic devaluation of the
lire as a quasi success only
because Germany has made a
very slight reduction in the
interest rate is deceiving public
opinion.” he said.

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Ride a mountain bike on mountains.

Having made a fortune selling
records, start an airline.

Kiss and not tell.

Work during Ascot week.

(But take a day off to go to your
son’s sports day.)

Carry a donor card.

Sell snails to the French.

Speak to foreign clients in their own
language.

Appoint a woman managing director.

Take a bite on a barge in London
Docklands.

Get our best artists to design our
currency notes.

Take his wife to dinner. In Paris.

Become a vegetarian but for a life-
long love affair with bacon sarnies.

Sponsor drama, opera, the arts.

(So long as they go on tour.)

Give a baby a cuddle, not a dummy.

Reverse the brain drain: hire
American whizz kids.

Know where to find a bottle bank.

Make exploratory business trips to
Eastern Europe.

Discover how easy it is to fly from
London City Airport.

Use trainers to train in.

Rather talk to colleagues than write
memos to them.

Take David Gower to India.

Drive an electric car.

Know how to open a can of beer
when the ring pull has snapped.

Occasionally let children win at
Snap.

Send grandparents’ day cards.

Prefer to own a real painting by an
unknown than a famous print.

Loop-the-loop for charity.

Never lose contact with a customer.

Or other companies’ customers.

Know that 22 species of fish are to
be found in the London Docks.

Queue overnight to get a seat at
Wimbledon.

Encourage a child who wanted to be
a drummer.

Share a bath- to save water.

Make a short speech when winning
an Oscar.

Forgive Bernhard Langer his missed
putt to lose the Ryder Cup.

Know the saving in overheads by
moving to London Docklands.

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gay justice’ enquiry

justice may have been influenced by the presence of
homosomaU within the Scottish legal system. He demand-
ed that a copy of a confidential police report, saying that

5,416111 b®* “terfered

W C 2^j£. Just, “ ^ *emsdves open to
{i ^ Iverc ^ 10 hhn. The Crown Office in
SSj*? 1 the report, ordered by Sir William
?“? Console of Lothian and Borders police,
wasnever submitted to the prosecuting authorities.

nie report, leaked to a newspaper last week, named a
mgn Court judge, two sheriffs and leading members of the
legal prwesSHm. It detailed facts and speculation surround*
mg Crown Office decisions not to prosecute some cases and

Ja T s res™ 131 procurator fiscal of

north Strathclyde, and William Nimmo-Smith, QC of the
Scottish Law Commission, will undertake the review.

Injection took seconds

A consultant pharmacologist tedd Winchester Crown Court
yesterday that the injection of undiluted potassium chloride
given by Nigel Cox to an elderly patient would probably have
killed her within 60 seconds. Andrew Herxheiraer sa i d it
could have disturbed the heart’s rhythm and caused it to
stop. Dr Cox. 47, a rheumatologist at the Royal Hampshire
County Hospital, denies attempting to murder Lillian
Boyes. 70. after she begged him to end her suffering. Albert
Vincenti. a consultant pathologist at the hospital, admins
that he signed a cremation certificate without examining
Mrs Boyes’ body and did not notice that the injection had
been given. The trial continues today .

TV group cuts jobs

At least 100 jobs are to go at Yorkshire Television and Tyne
Tees Television, the newly merged ITV companies that are
thought to have overbid for their licences in last year’s ITV
franchise auction. The group employs 1.400 people, but
industry sources believe that staff wHJ have to be cut by
almost half if the merged company is to break even. Clive
Leach, group chief executive, said that the job kisses would
end duplication in administration and programme-making.

Media. L&T section, page 7

Greenpeace ‘alarmist’

Greenpeace is publishing alarmist propaganda about
industrial pollution in rivers, the chairman oftbe National
Rivers Authority said yesterday. Lord CrickhoweQ said that
to achieve the Greenpeace target of zero pollution, Britain
would have to return to the Stone Age. His comments came
after a Greenpeace tour of the country which highlighted
allegedly “legalised*' polluting by companies holding NRA
permits. Lord CrickhoweO said the authority had reduced
the amount of industrial effluence over the past three years.

Kerb-crawling charge

Professor Martin Harris, 48. vice-chancellor of Manchester
University, is due to appear in court next month accused of
kerb-crawling. Manchester magistrates confirmed yester-
day that Professor Hams was listed to appear in court on
October 6. Summonses are understood to lave been issued.

charge

Harris is married with two children-

Mirror editor
says Maxwell
told him to
publish lies

By Peter Victor

THE editor of the Daily
Mirror was ordered to lie by
the late Robert Maxwell id
protect Nick Davies, the for-
eign editor who was later
sacked, an industrial tribunal
was told yesterday. Richard
Stott refused the order and
was threatened with dismissal

Mr Davies is claiming
unfair dismissal from the
paper. The tribunal was told
that he destroyed his credibil-
ity by lying to Mr Stott and his
colleagues after allegations
that he had been involved in
spying and arms dealing.

Mr Davies. 55, of Beckham,
southeast London, was named
as an Israeli spy in the book
The Samson Option, by die
American journalist Seymour
Hersh. He was accused of
being involved in the kidnap-
ping of the Israeli antimidear
dissident Mordechai Vanunu.
The book also alleged that he
was involved in arms deals in
1 985 while in Ohio.

The tribunal, in Chelsea,
southwest London, was told
that Mr Davies was in
Harare. Zimbabwe, covering
the Commonwealth Heads of
Government meeting when
reports of the allegations
broke on October 20 last year.
He was telephoned by Tom
Hendry, Minor assistant edi-
tor. and read die entire chap-
ter of Hersh’s book that
concerned him. Mr Davies
dismissed the allegations, say-
ing: “It was all nonsense." He
denied that he had ever been
to Ohio. The Mirror printed a

Davies: claims unfair
dismissal from paper

front-page denial and a lead-
ing article attacking the two
MFs who had raised the
maaer in parliament

On his return from Zimba-
bwe. Mr Davies was congratu-
lating Mr Stott and other
colleagues on a “wonderful
job" in denying the claims
when news came that the
Daily Mail had a photograph
of him meeting the wife of an
aims dealer in Ohio. Asked to
explain. Mr Dawes thought
for a moment and said that he
now remembered die visit, the
tribunal was told. He said that
he did not realise that his
comments would be published
and that he had “inadvertently
mis-stated" his denial.

Mr Stott told the hearing
that he had come to die
conclusion that Mr Davies
had not been idling the truth.
Matters came to a head when
The Sun primed a stoiy accus-
ing Mr Davies of lying. Mr
Stott contacted MaxvteU in
New York and the publisher
had ordered him to print a
leading article attacking The
Sun. When Mr Stott refused
to do this. Maxwell had "react-
ed rather violently".

Mr Stotr said: “He said that
if I didn't do it be would fire
me. So I then exploded and
said, “That's bloody marvel-
lous. You want to sack the
innocent and protect someone
who has lied.’ " Maxwell had
then put the telephone down,
but Mr Stott contacted him
again and said that they
should fire Mr Davies.

“The point to me was that
Nick had not only lied to me
and had continued to lie. but
that the whole credibility of the
newspaper was being put at
stake. The newspaper trusted
him implicitly ... but he had
betrayed a trust between an
editor and a member of his
staff"

Mr Stott said dial although
Mr Davies' denial of meeting
an arms dealer in Ohio had
been a lie, he and other
members of the Mirror staff
did not believe that he had
been involved in the “heinous"
betrayal of Vanunu.

The case continues today.

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Relatives
lunge at
killer
joyrider

By Ray Clancy

RELATIVES of two children
killed by a teenage joyrider
tried to attack the driver in
court yesterday.

Rodney Kievan, QC, for the
prosecution, was opening foe
case against Christopher
Lewin. 1 9, at Liverpool Crown
Court when two men jumped
from the public gallety. They
ran towards Lewin and his co*
accused David Nnah. 21. A
policeman nearly fell aver and
another banged his head
against a wall as they strug-
gled with court officials to
restrain the men.

The court was told how
Adele Thompson. 1 2. and her
friend Daniel Davies, 9. were
thrown into foe air and suf-
fered multiple injuries when
foe sports car skidded side-
ways for 100ft. mounted the
pavement at 40mph and hit
them as they collected pennies
for bonfire night in foe
Toxteth area of the city.

Lewin pleaded guilty to two
charges of manslaughter, un-
lawfully taking a car and
driving while disqualified.
Nnah pleaded not guilty to
two manslaughter charges but
admined taking foe car.

Both men were remanded
in custody until September 25.
when foe judge will consider
social enquiry reports before
sentencing them. Nnah’s not
guilty pleas were accepted by
the prosecution who said he
had not driven the car.

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broke teacher’s jaw

in friendly match

By David Young

AN ENGLAND rugby player
jawofateacher

who broke the jaw<
during a friendly match be-
tween two dub teams denied
inflicting grievous bodily
harm yesterday.

Gary Rees, 32, Mowed
Stefan Marty after a line-out
and punched him, Kingston
Grown Court, southwest
London, was told. Doctors
haeftowireup Mr Marys jaw
and put him on a liquid diet
after die dash at the London
Irish ground in Sudbury.
Surrey, last January. .

Mr Rees, who played the
last of his 23 matches for
England in the World Cup

last October, was playing for
Nottingham dining the
match. He told police he
pushed Mr Mdrif- and the
incident was an accident

David Jeremy, for die prose-
cution. told thecourt “It was a
blow that was' delivered obvi-
ously by a very fit athlete from

behind on a man who had no
warning it was coining.

“Therefore, as. you might

expect, he was relaxed and not , ..

ready to take it. In those ?l
circumstances, it is not surpris-
ing that Mr Marty received .
serious injuries"' Mr Jeremy
said that Mr Rees, of
Kegworth, Leicestershire, was

Welsh star accused

A FORMER Welsh rugby
captain temporarily Winded a
young player in an unpro-
voked attack, a court was told
yesterday.

Mike Watkins, 40, who was
capped four times in the
eighties, gouged his thumbs
into the eyes of Anthony
Huifoid, 18. a Cardiff youth
player, who was taken to hos-
pital after the incident in foe
Cardiff clubhouse last May.

Malcolm Bishop; for the
prosecution, tola Cardiff
Crown Court that M r Hurford
had been minding his own
business at the dub bar when
Mr Watkins, a Cardiff player,
wagged his finger at him. “Mr

Hurford is an arid coming
player- but Watkins told him
be was not fit to wear his
Cardiff badge on his
tracksuit." Mr Watkins then
shouted abouthis girl friend
before- jabbing his thumb s
into Mr Hurford’s eyes. Mr
Bishop said. /

Mr Watkins, one of only two
players honoured with the
Welsh captalncyton his debut,
was interviewed by police and
said Mr Hurford insulted his
girl friend while she was
waiting in die dub foyer. Mr
Watkins, of Pontywaun.
Gwent denies assault causing
actual bodily harm. The trial
continues today.

a flanker opposite Mr Marty.
After a line-out Mr Marty
moved towards his own eatfof
foe pitch. “Mr Rees way seen
to follow Stefan M&tyjaad
punch him once from baafe
to the side of theface/’ hesa&L
.. “At the top level rugbyis.a
game of hard phyacat contact ;
and any player running/-
foe pitch knows that is 1 *
is in for. But he
^consent to violence i
"Stiles. And to strike
nent as Mr Rees was)
strike Mr Marly is
roles."

John Keofaane; a-
Irish player, said' fie
shocked by the yt
punch that be "
defiver with his i

Mr Marly. 3!
sotoftwest
tain of the
second team. He
he immediately
jaw had been broken;,
moving in different dj
I swore at him witfr:
the effect, "you bastard*
hare broken my jaw?. "

Joseph Giret, 'for
fence.

ly collided when Mr

chan ged (tinwjmy

Mr Marty: “You were <
atdy putting yourself between
16 stone ofenergy— Mr Rees
— and his objective. That was
a tactic you adopted through-
out the game.” Mr Many
replied: “I deny that"

Die trial continues today.

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ment of drugs to treat
arachnophobia, foe fear of
spiders.

Parts Of the brain that
control primitive fears inherit-
ed from prehistoric ancestors -

winch Bonpalfcr.-adrusts anxi-
ety levels, icooniing to j*
searchers atiBristol Umversity.
In normal? people, atavistic
fear of spictavanakes, thirn-

der and lightning or hei ght s k
tendered by an anxiety brake
shaped like^a doughnut that
sits on top of bran cell
membranes.. ,

In victims of severe
arachnophobia; for example,

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afieefethe saga of foe hde. in
foe middle of the doughnut,
and prevents chloride _ ions
from flowing into the cdL
That causes it to trigger a
physical reaction. David Nutt,
diraforofthep^ritopharma-
cofogy reasearch unit at Bristol
University, said. Die victim^
heartbeat increases, he sweats
and his muscles dench as he
prepares to run or fight.

Dr Nutt said: “Some people
spend their whole lives watch-
ing for spiders. 1 flunk they
have too httie GABA, which is
controlling that primitive fear
reflex which we normally keep
dampened down.”

The discovery, applying
equally to sufferers erf panic
attacks, offers “realty exciting
possibilities” for designing
drugs that would help anxiety
and phobias without affecting
a patient's memory or produc-
ing long-term dependence, Dr
Nutt said About half of all
women and 10 per cent of
men admit to at least disliking
spiders, but severe arachpp-
phobes may be dassed as
neurotic if their anxiety is
uncontrollable.

“GABA deficiency may be
inherited.” Dr Nutt said. “The
doughnut is made -of five
pieces and one of them may
not work so well as the others.
It is quite possible that hor-
monal changes in women

may affect one! of the fire
different pieces and bring on
anxiety attacks-**

The way people respond to
benzodiazepine tranquilliser
drugs, such as valium, rosy
also be part of their generic
code, inherited as part of their
overall personality, he said.
Anxious people had fewer
receptors for those drugs,
which are sited on foe dough-
nut Structure, suggesting that
foe brain normally makes a
natural anxiety-reducing com-
pound which is lacking in
those who are overly anxious.

The fear of spiders is usually
explained as a purely psycho-
logical phenomenon, caused
by a bad experience with a
spider in foe past One theory
is that there were more spiders
in bubonic plague stricken
houses and fear of them now
descends from a cultural
memory that associated them
with infection.

Dr -Nutt has found that
stress has an effect on GABA
function in the brains of
animate, indicating that a
stressful event may precede foe
onset of anxiety disorders by
disturbing foe brain’s chemi-
cal balance. Theoretically, a
stressful encounter with a ta-
rantula could trigger arachno-
phobia or a frightening crush
in a lift could produce the
chemical beginnings of
claustrophobia.

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The foundations of a second
bridge across foe Severn were
unvefled yesterday. The £300
million private toll bridge is
expected to be opened in
1996.

The new crossing, with
three lanes in each direction, is
three miles downstream from
the Severn Bridge. The Arv-
o-French construction teams
ive begun work on both
sides of the estuary and are
assembling a fleet erf barges
and pontoons for foe central
section.

John MacGregor, the trans-
port secretary, who joined
David Hunt, foe Welsh secre-
tary. to unveil the work at
Sudbrook Point, Gwent said
that the three-mile bridge
would more than double the
capacity of the M4. “It win
greatly benefit communities
and businesses on both sides
erf foe estuary ” he said.

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£3m granted
for pier park

Liverpool's pier head is to be
developed as a public park
after a £3.1 million grant was
announced yesterday by the
environment ministry. The
seven-acre site will include the
Royal JivtivCpnard and Port
of liverpcxrf buidingS- -
The development WiH fea-
ture raised Iawngand a central
ctmcooise^-anreafaided river-
side walk and pedestrian links
to fotf dtjr centre; Work wdU
begin in September and tate
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David Speedie was fined! £50
by Jersey-magistrates after ad-
' nutting disproeriy conduct in
a hotel where the teamfwas
staying at foe weekend, i

Drug remand

George Trevor Smith, 5ft of

WHAT cruel streak so inxfcs
in the English' flat- drives
than to despatch their pre-
pufiescent offspring to hfcajc
and gluufoy.iboanluLg]
schools at foe 8p£pfjHght or
even youngexf id bi^ reared
at foe hand?
matrons and- sexually duW-*
oo5 -masters when afl they
want is their mummy? Do
they seriously befidve' that
society can stiS be cod-
queued an foe playing fields
of Eton? Are foey capbibut-
ing, as much as v ' *' '
raent tower

in tears at
sessions When
to fellow suffer-

one _ .

Redaitch, Hereford and
Worcester, was remanded in
custody by Beaconsfidd mag-
istrates. Buckinghamshire^
charged with possessing a
block of cannabis resin with a
street value of £2.5 million.

Ecstasy; to foe

of society?

Nkk Dafiefl.

a Leaden
who

ten years of
schools, has made a
of helping foe.

■Tproember sadistic

^footLancI

fofc peculiar necessity of
^jflng; add, powers naked
m^stetfs watched. Suf
ferers mve talked of ding-
ing : to any miserable
nrafoM home; wither
a cranh&om their mother's
tadt box or,eyen a handful oF
foefrfefoe^sptpe ash.
“Weare ngt attempting to
'■““.foe public school
simply trying
who have,
by it," Mr
“Repressive
ang stoic is
jo*»;are a warrior,
batheazdnig school is not a
be wife you

ly found

Police are trying to trace a
group of “new age" travdfere
after a woman's bod^ewaS
found dose to a site used fay
travellers near Harrogate!,
Norfo Yorkshire. j

a support group for:
ers.' Ncaf month fie it. .
latest dime fin: those
•feel they havebeenserkmsfy

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antoqxn-

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sire education.

More than 60 former
hare received help
m Mr DuffdTs sessions,
which involve foe uninhibit-
ed sharing of painful memo-
ries. He is m touch with
Chfldlzne and other agencies
which help the hefrrfess
young. He says he has a
huge postbag from people
who fed braiding school
has left them fltequipped to
face foe real world.

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Lone lifestyle poses
few hitches for
six million Britons

: MORE people in Britain live
atone than ever before and die
' number is forecast to be nearly
eight million by the end of the
• “"S* 1 ?- according to a report
published today. They em-
. brace a healthier lifestyle than
other households and are not
: particularly worried about
. bang lonely.

There are more than six
million one-oersnn hnm«

twice as many as there were 30

years ago. If single parents are
added, then 40 per cent of
households will either be sin-
ge people or solo parents by
the end of the centuiy.

John Cunningham, chief
executive of Mintel. the mar-
ket researchers who publish
die report, said; “What we are
seeing is a radical change. The
sooner we take this on board
the better as there are issues
that need to be addressed from
soda], commercial and polit-
ical points of view.

“Sotiety may be geared
towards couples and families
but most single people are very
positive about living alone and
make the most of the single
lifestyle while it lasts," Mr
Cunningham said.

One of the finds by research-
ers was that, contrary to popu-
lar image, single people do not
eat a lot of junk food Re-
searchers found that single

By Ray Clancy

people's eating and buying
habits revolve around conve-
nience and indulgence.

Angela Hughes, Mintd's
consumer research manager,
said: “That does not necessar-
ily mean junk food. Single
people tend to spend more
than couples on cereals, bread,
eggs and milk which can be
regarded as convenience foods

iiiii

and easy to store"

Those Irving alone buy more
cakes, biscuits, sugar and jam
but that is balanced by more
fresh green vegetables and
fresh fruit than other house-
holds. They have a positive
attitude towards a healthy diet
and are more likely to eat
vegetarian meals and to disre-
gard dehydrated fast foods.

Making the effort to oook
proper meals varies according
to age. Men. those under 55.
and divorcees and separated
people are more likely not to
bother cooking if they are
alone. But those aged over 55
and people who have never
been married do not regard it
as too much trouble.

Whether they are single by
choice, divorced, separated or
widowed, those living alone
are not particularly worried
about loneliness. About a thud
regarded it as a problem and
1 6 per cent said that they find

SINGLE PERSON HOUSEHOLDS

Woman over pension age
Man over pension age
Women under pension age
Men under pension age

As % of all r 35
households

1991 1996 2001

it difficult to manage on their
own. Those who have suffered
a bereavement are more likely
to be concerned-
women over pension age
make up the largest group of
angle households. The trend
is expected to continue
because of better life expectan-
cy for females.

One person households are

and older people. The report
says that living alone is a
transitory state for many, espe-
cially those aged under 55.

The rise in the number of
people does hot mean British
society is becoming more anti-
soda], the report says. People
are embracing freedom and
choice. People living alone
said they felt a sense of
achievement at coping and
that they welcomed the free-
dom of nor to have to think
about someone else aD the
time.

Single Person Households
— Single Living, Diverse Life-
styles 1992 (£895 Mintel
International Group. 18-19
Long Lane, London EC1A
9HE)

□ Office workers who live in
London spend the equivalent
of one working day a week
travelling to and from their
jobs, according to a survey
published yesterday.

The average journey to and
from work takes one-and-a-
half horns, which for 73 per
cent of commuters is wasted
time, said the survey by Busi-
ness Pages, the business
directory.

Pew have the energy or the
means to do paperwork or
read on the journey. The
sunny found that 27 per cent
of commuters worked while
travelling (of whom 42 per
cent did background reading)
25 per cent wrote reports, 1 5
per cent wrote lists and 12 per
cent phoned work associates.

Half of the 304 business
people surveyed said they
would be interested in taking
taxis that offered the use of fax
machines and mobile'
telephones.

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Dynamic Fischer seizes control Ramblers campaign

By Raymond Keene, chess correspondent 1 over blocked paths

BOBBY Fischer took firm
control of his match against
Boris Spassky when he won
the eighth game in Sveti
Stefan, Montenegro, on Sun-
day night Fischer's win took
him into the lead, three games
to two with three games
drawn, in a contest worth a
record $5 milli on (£2.5 mil-
lion) to the victor. The winner
is the player who first
achieves ten wins.

Doubts arose about Fi-
scher's ability to make a
convincing comeback when
he lost games four and five to
Spassky last week and fell
into severe difficulties in the
drawn game six. But games
seven and eight showed all
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was a sharp variation of the
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to attack on the Queen’s flank

while Spassky, playing white,
hoped to create attacking
chances on the other side of
the board. On the 22nd move.
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and that slight hesitation
allowed Fischer to establish a
dominating squadron of Mack
knights in the centre.

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inadequate compensation. Fi-
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sacrifice of a rook on the 3 7th
move to break Spassky’s de-
fence, forcing his resignation
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THE Ramblers' Association
yesterday launched a national
campaign against what it
called “Forbidden Britain Hot
Spots" along a tree-lined track
wandering for two miles
through countryside near the
Solway Firth in Cumbria.

Association activists said
that a local fanner had for
years deliberately attempted to
block die right of way with
illegal barriers of barbed wire.
Forty such paths across the
countryside, where landown-
ers have obstructed the right to
ramble, have been selected to
highlight die campaign.

Jerry Pearlman. a specialist
in footpath law and solicitor to
the Ramblers' Association,
said: "This is as much a public
right of way as the Queen's
highway. It is dearly marked

as such on the Ordnance
Survey map."

David Beskine. leader of the
footpath campaign, said the
“hot spots" were a small
sample of the footpath and
countryside to be tackled by
the assodation. Countryside
Commission surveys had
shown that where a footpath
had been blocked or ploughed
up, eight out of ten ramblers
would turnback.

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Hereford and Worcester indi-
cated that up to 70 per cent of
footpaths had been ploughed
or obstructed. The difficulties
are growing just as the de-
mand for (riaoes where people
can enjoy a quiet country walk
and the thirst for knowledge
about footpaths is increasing."
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Liberal Democrats at Harrogate: party split over conference ‘tactical mistake’

MP to quit in protest
over abortion vote

THE Liberal Democrat MP
David Alton will not stand
again for the party, in protest
at a decision to make abortion
a policy issue rather than a
matter of conscience.

Mr Alton resigned as
Liberal Democrat chief whip
in 1987 in order to bring in a
backbench bill to lower the
time limit for abortions horn
24 to 18 weeks. The bOl was
eventually "talked our by
MPs amid angry scenes in the
Commons and Mr Alton has
since-refused to take a parlia-
mentary portfolio.

His decision yesterday was
in response to a declaration by
the party conference in Harro-
gate that NHS staff who
refuse to perform abortions
must refer pregnant women to
colleagues willing to operate.

Mr Alton, MP for Liverpool
Mossley Hill, said it was the
Erst time the party had adopt-
ed a formal policy on abortion,
which had previously been an
issue of conscience for individ-
ual MPs. Announcing that he
would not stand for foe party
at the next general decoon, he
said: “While this polity re-
mains intact. I win not be able
to fight for or recommend
people to vote for foe Liberal
Democrats."

The depth of the division
between Mr Alton and the
party was dear in his com-
ments to a binge meeting last
night “Parties make policies
on issues such as this at their
peril. It will rightly alienate
countless people who will nev-
er vote for. join or stand for a
party which removes foe right
of conscience on this issue,
and I will stand foursquare
with them.’*

Other leading Liberal Dem-
ocrats also expressed fears that
foe decision to lay down
abortion policy might cost foe
party support. Archie Kirk-
wood. the party’s chief whip,
declared foe conference deci-
sion a “tactical mistake". «nd
Simon Hughes, the MP for
Southwark and Bermondsey,
warned representatives that
the policy-making move
might be misinterpreted out-
side foe party.

Although MPs will-not.be
bound by parry policy in a
Commons vote, there is wide-
spread concern in foe party
that the policy will be per-
ceived as being pro-abortion.
It is the first dme that the party
has established abortion policy
in England and Wales, al-
though it' already exists in foe
party in Scotland.

Sir David SteeL foe former
Liberal leader who proposed
backbench legislation which
led to the legalising of abor-
tion in 1967. was also report-
ed to be concerned that the
issue should remain a matter

By Arthur Leathlev

of individual conscience rather
than one of party policy,
although he was not present
for foe debate.

Mr Alton also objected to a
requirement, passed, over-
whelmingly by the conference,
that abortions be carried out
within 14 days of being
sought a proposal which, he
said, did not give women
sufficient time for counselling.

He would consider whether
to stand as an independent
candidate or join another par-
ty at foe next election but
would continue to work for foe
party in the meantime. Paddy
Ashdown, foe Liberal Demo-
crat leader, said that Mr Alton
had played “no part in foe
building up of cur new party,
it is sad to see him go but it
won't malm any difference to
foe . way we conduct our
affairs."

Mr Alton said foe policy

Steel: led the way in
. legalising abortion

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obliging doctors to refer
women to other medical prac-
titioners “further restricted foe
rights of conscience of medical
staff It forces doctors and
nurses to refer patients for an
abortion even if they are
morally and ethically
opposed."

Mr Alton’s seat which he
won in a byelection in 1979,
was bdd in April’s general
election with a 2.606 majority.

He has recently increased his
involvement in foe anti-abor-
tion campaign through his
position as vice-president of
the organisation Life, and as
founder of foe Movement for
Christian Democracy.

During yesterday's debate,

Nigel Williams, from Dul-
wich. south London, said: “We
cant have our cake and eat it
If we are to have a genuine
conscience position, we cant
have a detailed policy on
abortion. The two ate
incompatible.’’

Proposers of foe motion said
the current law allowing abor-
tion was unequally imple-
mented, with women's access
to NHS abortions depending
on health authority resources
in their areas and the beliefs of
their individual doctors.

Dr Jenny Tonge, aGP from
.Richmond and Baines, said:

“This motion does not ask us
to approve or disapprove of
abortion. The present law
allows for both points of view,
but its implementation is
patchy. This debate is about
justice and fair and equal
implementation of the law."

Matthew Parris, page 16 Protest vote: David Alton registers his dissent in the abortion debate yesterday

Delegates scorn Ashdown’s ‘right-wing’ challenge

T>addy Ashdown and his
JL team of liberal Democrat
“brains" received a severe
rebuke from conference repre-
sentatives yesterday for their
policy document setting out
the party’s core themes and
values.

After a wave of derisory,
and occasionally downright
rude, comments about Chall-
enge, Opportunity and Re-
sponsibility . the conference
divided over whether to tear
up the document or use it as
the basis for future polity
making. With a final plea
from Lord Holme of Chelten-
ham. the team's vice-chair-
man. not to engage in
symbolic gestures, the leader-
ship won the day by 13 votes.
Voting was 324 to 31 1.

Given foe scale of the
criticism, the pdacy makers
are expected to rethink the
document almost entirely.
The main complaint about the

The Liberal Democrat leadership won
limited approval for their new policy
document, Sheila Gunn writes. The party’s
“brains” will now have to think again

24-page document was its
right-wing tendency with the
espousal of free-market prin-
ciples and foe talk of “empow-
erment” of the individual.
Representatives variously
called for more commitment
to co mmuni ty politics, foe
return of full employment and
tough “green” measures.

Bernard Salmon from
Folkestone and Hytfae sug-
gested an alternative title of
“fudge, mudge and bo Docks".
The document was full of
platitudes, awful, shoddy and
ill-prepared, he said.

Party officials disclosed lat-
er that the original text had

used harsher terms to
describe the public sector and
had been more enthusiastic
about the merits of
competition.

I t was drawn up by the new
agenda working group,
cfaaired by Mr Ashdown, in-
cluding Lord Holme, foe MPs
Nidi Harvey and Robert
Maclennan, • councillors
David Howarfo and Sarah
Ludfonl arid Rabbi Julia
Neuberger. The Liberal Dem-
ocrat leader described the
document as foe source paper
for future policy positions and
the first step towards the

party's manifesto at the next
general election.

Gordon Lishman. a leading
party official, said some of the
document was fundamentally
wrong and its tone was
patronising with talk of values
and themes rather than phi-
losophy and coherence.

Michael Smart from Green-
wich complained that the
economic policy section set
the party on a lopsided course:
strong on individual values,
weak on co mmunal values. “I
fear the document is wheeling
too much to starboard, that is
to the right” Jadde Ballard
from Taunton said: “If it is so
bfindingty obvious that de-
fence must be the responsi-
> bffity of foe state, how is it not
also obvious to the party's
free-market gurus that health,
education, bousing and trans-
port should also be foe re-
sponsibility of government?”

Don Foster. MP for Bath,

said the document skimmed
over education and training,
while James Walsh, a West
Sussex county councillor and
GP, complained that foe term
“empowerment” was Toiy-
speak for empowering the
rich to opt for private services.

O ne of the most outspo-
ken critics, Alex Wilcodf.
president of Essex students’
union, - said foe parly had
become “recklessly timid”
with no vision. It was. he said,
a “dead party document”. He
hoped the party would have
foe courage of the convictions
which foe document did not
have and throw it out
1 Lord Hofane admitted it
was not a perfect paper but it
was designed for consult-
ation. He promised that,
whatever the outcome of the
conference vote, it would be
worked on further in the next
year.

Wilson
attacks
pact talk

Des Wilson, the Liberal
Democrats' 1992 election
campaign manager, last
night questioned Paddy
Ashdown’s decision to
raise the prospect of closer
co-operation with Labour
only one month after foe
election.

At a conference rally. Mr
Wilson said that talk of a
political realignment as in
Mr Ashdown’s Chard
speech on May 9. was
unrealistic. “It just wont
happen, definitely not
while Labour remains as it
is,” he said.

Although he did not pile
out limited co-operation,
he urged Mr Ashdown.
Simon Hughes and others
to resist the siren calls for
realignment Mr Wilson
said: "Was Paddy's post-
election speech a mistake?
Maybe it was. We forget
sometimes that what mat-
ters is not what we’re trying
to say but whaz others think
they hear."

BBC told to
have courage

The BBC was was told to
“stop cowering” from foe
criticism it suffered from
Margaret Thatcher's gov-
ernment and defend its
role as one of foe world's
major broadcasters.

Robert Smith, a former
Liberal Democrat parlia-
mentary candidate from
Aberdeen North, pressed
foe corporation's gover-
nors to underline the
BBC’s importance in ad-
vance of its charter being
renewed. Telling the con-
ference that foe corpora-
tion no longer freed such
strong government pres-
sure, he said: “I find it
quite depressing that foe
corporation's governors
are doing so little"

Policy defied

Liberal Democrat activists
demanded the setting up of
a party working group to
look at moral issues raised
by genetic engineering.
Delegates defied the wish-
es of their federal polity
committee to support over-
whelmingly a motion
highlighting the ethical di-
lemmas posed by the sci-
ence. The committee had
said that, while these
should be considered in the
context of all polity areas,
foe time “was not right for
us to look at foe subject in
its own right”.

Teachers
call for
1 6.5pc
pay rise

By John O'Leary

EDUCATION

CORRESPONDENT

THE National Union of
Teachers was left isolated
yesterday after claiming a
pay rise worth four times the
rate of inflation. Conserva-
tive MPs joined other union
leaders in dismissing the
claim as unrealistic
As the NUT lodged its
submission arguing for a
16.5 per cent rise, the Nat-
ional Association of School-
masters and Union of
Women Teachers said it
would be seeking increases
of 8 to 10 percent. Nigel de
Gruchy. the general secre-
tary. said: “NASUWT be-
lieves a balance has to be
struck between arguing the
case for a deserved pay
increase for teachers while at
the same time retaining
credibility with the public"
Sir Rhodes Boyson, a for-
mer Tory education minister
and MP for Brent North,
predicted that teachers could
expea no more than l or 2
per cent more than foe going
rale for public servants. “I
sympathise with teachers on

Boyson: ‘There is no way claim wQI be credible’

their pay claim but at a tune
of in erased unemployment
and huge numbers of busi-
ness failures, there is no way
a 1 6.5 per cent daim will be
credible.” ■

Hairy Greenway, a fellow
Conservative MP and for-
mer headmaster, said: “They
should come into tine with
the more moderate of
other teacher unions in the
interests of foe children, foe
economy and foe future of

Doag McAvqy. foe NUTs
general secretary, insisted
that foe daim was a viral

investment to “restore teach-
ers to their rightful place and
to make the profession at-
tractive again”. The union is
calling tor legal limits on
dass sizes and limits on
teachers* working hours, as
well as a pay rise.

The National Association
of Head Teachers win also
finalise a lower daim than
the NUTs before the end of
foe week. David Hart, the
general secretary, said: “I
am confident that our claim
wQI be realistic.”

Smith puts jobs-for-all
at centre

Leading artide, page 13

LABOUR yesterday restored
full employment as a central
objective of its economic policy
in John Smith's first policy
statement, to go before foe
annual conference later this
month.

The 26-page document
Agenda for Change, sees Mr
Smith trying to position Lab-
our on the side of the individ-
ual and the consumer against
vested interests. Labour
should be foe party “of success
and self-reliance'', it says in an
overt appeal to the upwardly
mobile middle classes who
have been lost to foe Tories.

In a frank admission of past
failures the paper, drawn up
by Mr Smith in collaboration
with key fronvbench col-
leagues, .says: “The severe
disappointment we suffered in
the general election demon-
strates quite dearly that we
cannot go on as before. In
recent years foe party has
eliminated many of foe nega-
tive factors that seriously weak-
ened our position in the eariy
Eighties, but we have been less
successful in articulating foe
positive agenda that Labour
must bring to foe British
people. Our task now is to
overcome foe distance that
many of our potential support-
ers feel from Labour."

It goes on: “Labour must be
seen to support self-reliance

Labour’s new
leader is trying to
put the party on the
side of the
individual, writes -
Philip Webster

and hard work and pride in
achievement Labour's task is
to identify with foe hopes and
aspirations of individual men
and women ... across the
country so they in turn identify
with us.”

The restoration of the foil
employment pledge is a signif-
icant shift in tone. Labour
approached foe last election
promising to aim for foe
“fullest possible level of em-
ptoymenr, a cautious word-
ing designed to prevent
charges that ft was making
unrealistic commitments.

The paper approved yester-
day says: “Our aspiration is to
make full employment once
again a central objective of
economic polity."

The document confirms the
leadership's plan to have
future polity-malting overseen
by a 16-strong committee of
the national executive and the
shadow cabinet. A 100-mem-
ber forum win be set up next
year, from which polity com-
missions will be drawn to

Patients to get wider guarantee from extended charter

By Jill Sherman

HEALTH ministers are plan-
ning to extend the patient's
charter to cover GP services in
a drive to improve primary
health care throughout the
countiy.

Until now the patient’s
charter has concentrated on
hospital services, in particular
reducing the length of tune
people have to wait for opera-
tions. NHS patients have
already been given a two-year

waiting limit for all proce-
dures, with an 18-month limit
for specific surgery such as
hip operations.

Ministers now want to con-
centrate more cm the length of
time people wait in GP sur-
geries and the speed at which
medical records are processed
and transferred when pa-
tients want to change doctors.
They also want to ensure that
patients have as much infor-
mation as posable about
health services available at

practices and complaints pro-
cedures. Ministers have been
impressed tty local charters
setting out in greater detail
the services to which patients
are entitled, and want to see
these moves extended
nationwide.

Although hospitals have
been urged to cut waiting
times in outpatient dirties,
until now GP surgeries have
been largely overlooked.
Many people also complain
about the difficulties pi

changing GPs and the length
of time taken to transfer
records from one GP practice
to another.

Ministers are confident
they can reduce maximum
hospital waiting tunes fur-
ther. They are hoping to
reduce waits for all operations
to 18 months, and eventually
to a year. They point to the
success of the two-year Emit
which was just about
achieved in April days before
the general election.

Under the scheme, if pa-
tients cannot be admitted to a
hospital locally within two
years they are sent to a
hospital in a different district
or to a private hospital.

Other aspects of the pa-
tient's charter indude maxi-
mum waiting times for
ambulance services, immedi-
ate access to accident and
emergency services, and haw
mg a named nurse, midwife
or health visitor responsible
for each patient

develop and revise Labour's
programme. Mr Smith will
chair the committee, which
aims to bring flexibility to
policy making. Many party
figures felt that Labour’s tax-
ation at the election were out
of date, having been agreed in
1989 during a different eco-
nomic dimate.

The paper accepts that Lab-
our wiD nave to change to win
the voters’ trust “Labour was
bom out of foe struggle for
change at foe end of the last
century; a demand for change
made by millions of ordinary
working people to mm their
aspirations for democratic
rights and social justice.”

Without giving any hint of
foe likely outcome of foe
internal debate on proportion-
al representation for foe West-
minster ejections, the docu-
ment makes dear that
constitutional issues wfll have
high priority under Mr
“Britain is alone
foe major western
nations in not lay-
in legislation foe
basic rights of our citizens and
in not giving them a direct
means of asserting these rights
through the courts. We must
examine the case for a bOl of
rights."

Labour should be foe cham-
pion . of foe individual. “We
want to see a government,
national and local acting as a
powerful advocate of the citi-
zen. providing information,
advice, advocacy and legal
assistance to individuals.”
People need to know Labour is
defending them against "brut-
ishness and vandalism, foe
drift into antipodal behaviour
and foe disintegration of foe
values which reinforce decen-
cy, neighbourliness and com-
munity self-help,"

The paper calls for an
integrated and truly national
health service with a new
emphasis on prevention and
foe economic benefit of invest-
ment in health- It carries
forward previous pledges to
improve the public services.

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Smith,
among
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seeks
curb on
spending

By Jill Sherman

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

MICHAEL Portillo, foe chief
secretary to the Treasury will
outline foe key areas which
face foe toughest curbs on
public spending at foe first
meeting of foe special cabinet
committee on Thursday.

The committee, chaffed- by
Norman Lament ,foe Chan-
cellor, was set up as part of the
new mechanism to rein in
public spending. Over the
past two weeks Mr Portillo has
been meeting heads of depart-
ments to ensure that spending
next year is limited to the
£244.5 billion total agreed in
July.

Ministers who were bidding
for an extra £14 billion have
been asked to draw up two
programmes: . one using foe
baseline agreed in last year’s
expenditure white paper, and
a second, lower, target to allow
for demand-led expansion in
areas such as social security.
AD departments are being
pressed to keep public sector
pay rises in line with inflation,
now predicted at less than 3

per cent next year.

The £70 billion social sec-
urity budget, which accounts
for nearly a third of public
spending, is expected to free
foe toughest scrutiny, but po-
litically acceptable savings will
be hard to find. Although part
of foe benefits bill wifl be met
from the contingency reserve,
other spending departments
may have to be cut back to
fond foe remainder. Revised
unemployment estimates for j
next year are 600.000 high*
than foe 2.4 million anticipat-
ed, leading to an extra cost of
at least £ 2.1 billion.

The most vulnerable ;
ing departments are d/
transport health, environ'
ment and foe Scottish. Welsh
and Northern Ireland
departments. j

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Bosnia shelling continues as monitors take control of Serb artillety

Sarajevo’s
boycott of
talks shocks
UN envoy

FRom Tim Judah andDessaTrevisan
m beixsrade and Our Foreign Staff

OVERSEAS NEWS 9

CITRUS Vance, the United
Nations peace envoy, reacted
angrily yesterday to the deci-
sion of President Izetbegovic
of Bosnia to pull out of peace
talks in Geneva on Friday. A
UN spokesman, Fred Eck-
hard, said that Mr Vance had
been shocked because Mr
Izetbegovic bad given him a
“solemn personal commit
menr to come. Mr Vance has
responded that he stQl expects
Mr Izetbegovic to show up or
send a delegation.

The dispute blew up as
buddings blazed in Sarajevo
and _ reports indicated that
Serbian forces were on the
defensive and even retreating
from areas previously thought
to be solidly under their con-
trol Battles raged, in the
western suburbs despite UN
assurances that they were now
monitoring Serb heavy weap-
onry in 11 locations. Shells
also fell on the town centre
and at least four were kflletL

A Bosnian presidency mem-
ber. Ejup Game, said: “The
heavy weapons were supposed
cr be under the control of the
UN Protection Force (Unpro-
faj, but Unprofor are con-
fosed and disoriented. In

these circumstances .1 don’t
dink we, will continue (the
pace process) if it goes on.”

There was no statement by
tie UN why there was sheSing
ir Sarajevo after Serb weap-
on had come under their
cmtrol. However it was dear
tlat either much weaponry
lad not been handed in or
Hat the Serbs were respond-
in' to a renewed Bosnian
derisive to break the siege.

On Sunday night Mr
Irtbegovic wrote to M r Vance
sying that he could not attend
pace talks while Bosnian
dies were under attack. Mr

Eckhard said that Mr
Izetbegovic “was categorical
that Bosnia-Herzegovina
would not be represented at
any level ... a few hours later
an equally categorical letter
was sent back by Mr Vance".

Radovan Karadzic, the Bos-
nian Serb leader, also suggest-
ed that he might not show up
to Friday’s talks if a “no-fly
zone’’ was imposed on Bosnia-
Herzegovina. While Serb
forces are the only ones in the
republic with air power the foil
implications of the “no-fly
zone" only became apparent
yesterday as reports came in of
the first sustained Serb rafli-
tary setbacks in Bosnia for
several months. *

Serb power will be weak-
ened seriously if its leadership
can 'no longer use helicopters
to hop from town to town and
commute to Serbia. For the
first time there are reports that
the main road from Belgrade
to the Serb stronghold ofPale
near Sarajevo is no longer
secure, Bosnian forces havmg
a tt ack e d traffic near the east-
ern town of Zvomik.

The Belgrade news agency
Tanjug reported that ten civil-
ians were killed in an ambush
between Zvomik and Tuzla
last week and added that
survivors heard Muslim
women and children, shouting
“AJJahu Akhbar” as the attack
took place.

Over the weekend the vital
northern corridor linking Ser-
bia . with Serb-controlled
northern Bosnia and Serb
areas in Croatia was cut for tiie
first time since it was secured
by the Serbs in July. Tanjug
reported that artiHeiy. tanks
and heavy artillery firing from
across the Sava river in Cro-
atia had been used. The
corridor was reported, open
again yesterday but the net ■
that fighting continues there
means that the Serb military
position is for less secure than
previously thought
Even more serious, from the
Serb point of view, are reports
of dashes in several eastern
Bosnian towns which fen to
them like ninepins at die
beginning of foe war. Bosnian
forces previously besieged in
Gorazde are now thrusting
outwards. Fighting was re-
ported in nearby Foca and

On alert: a young Bosnian woman, with an AK47 rifle, waits for a funeral in a Sarajevo’s cemetery yesterday

over the weekend around
Zvomik and Visegrad.

The Bosnians have accused
the Yugoslav Army of attempt-
ing to shore up the faltering
Serb positions in the east by
sending 100 tanks over the
frontier at the weekend but
there was no confirmation of
this.

From Zagreb. AFP reported
that Serbian forces launched
several air attacks in Croatia
and Bosnia-Herzegovina on
yesteray in apparent defiance
of international moves toward
creating an exclusion zone in
Bosnian airspace. Six aircraft
fired several missiles on the
outskirts of foe Croatian town
of Slavonski Brod. 1 20 miles
east of Zagreb on foe border
with Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Slavonski Brod was also hit by
heavy artillery from northern

Bosnia as were a dozen neigh-
bouring villages. Seven civil-
ians were wounded.

Air raids were also reported
in north-west Bosnia, with the
industrial area of Cazin and
residential sectors in Bihace
hit by fragmentation bombs.
Shannon Boyde. the UN
forces’ spokeswoman in Za-
greb. said a strong explosion
had damaged the runway at
foe civilian airport in
Zemunik. near Zadar, on Cro-
atia’s Adriatic coast

She said French UN troops

had gone to examine the
runway. Two Flench soldiers
were killed there on June 1 7
Mien their vehide ran over a
mine.

• Zagreb: UN peacekeeping
troops took over a large dam
yesterday, in a move that
involved rare Serb-Croat coop-
eration and should restore
regular water and electricity
supplies to Croatia’s coast (AP
reports).

A UN spokeswoman said
UN troops took over guarding
the Peruca dam. 30 miles

inland from the D almatian
coast Water from foe dam
drives three hydroelectric
power stations in Croatian
territory. “There are aimed
UN soldiers guarding foe site
and the UN flag is flying over
it” she said.

The dam supplies water to
more than 500.000 people in
Split and the surrounding
coast it fell under control of
Serb militias during Croatia’s
six-month war last year.

Diary, page 12

Yeltsin’s camp accuses central
bank of causing economic woe

From Anne McElvoy in mosoow

THE Rus sian government’s
eonomic think-tank said yes-
trday that the country was
leading for hyperinflation
vithin the next two months
aid blamed the central bank
fir hindering reforms for
political motives.

Sergei Vasiliev, a director of
tie Centre for Economic Re-
firm. said the bank had been
mling oat vast credits to
ommercial banks and mem-
fcr states of the Common-
veal tb of Independent States,
lorrowing had risen fly 40
per cent in July alone. “We
lave two to four weeks to
rverse this trend, otherwise
ve will have 50 per cent
hflation very soon.”

Mr Vasiliev said 10 per cent
cf Russia’s gross national
product was flowing out as
cedits to the other states
“ivithout the faintest chance”
r would ever be repaid . *TTw
entral bank's policy repre-
sents a full-scale retreat from
tie path of reform. In prae-
tce. it is working to discredit
tie cause of reform.”

Gaidar wants tight
monetary polity

The think-tank’s comments
are intended to put the dis-
pute between economic re-
formers and conservatives on
the agenda of foe Russian
parliament when it. recon-
venes next week. Blaming the
central bank for economic
misfortune is now a regular
pastime of President Yeltsnrt
camp, so much so that it is

easy to conclude that if the
bank and all its weaknesses
did not exist, it would have
been n ecessa ry for Mr Yeltsin
to invent them as a scapegoat
But it is also a large and
implacable foe that he could
wefl do without
The bank, headed by Viktor
Gerashchenko, a former head
of foe Soviet central bank, has
begun issuing loans to state
enterprises to cover their
debts. Mr Gerashchenko, a
conservative, is wary of the
tight monetary policy fa-
voured by Yegor Gaidar, the
prime minister, and the Inter-
national Monetary Fund. His
policy towards state enter-
prises enables them to keep
on their workers, even though
productivity has shirapedL
Where Mr Gaidar favours
creating a small pool of unem-
ployed on the Western model
to keep wage demands in
check, the bank appears to
have retained the communist
horror of unemployment

Romanov bones, page 12

Neo-Nazi killers get four years

FOUR neo-Nazis convicted
for their role in the killing of
in Angolan in November
•900 in Ebenswalde were
sentenced yesterday to be-
tween three and four years in
prison. A fifth was placed on
probation for two years.

Amadeu Antonio Riowa.
2$ a guestworker. was
lacked and beaten uncon-
saous by about 50 thugs and
<£ed in hospital days later.

first casualty of racism in
mst-unification Germany.

The four-month trial end-
ed in uproar a* a group of
testers were

fom the court building ao

From Adam LeBor in rerun

I curing the judge of being too I

f lenient A dozen masked left- i

■ wing supporters demonstrat- 1

; ed outside with banners i

proclaiming: “Hunt the Na- <
[ zis, beat them up and destroy
1 the whole bloody system." 1

During the trial the prose- <
cution said police had moni- j
; tored tiie skinheads. But

when foe violence started foe 5
I police are alleged to have 1

remained at a distance while j
1 Kiowa went down in a hail ’

of blows from baseball bats, t

fenceposts, kicks and punch- i

es. Three policemen are J

under investigation for pas- i

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testimony revealed a chilling
indifference to the murder
by local people. “1 found a
negro in front of the chemi-
cal factory.” a hairdresser.
18, testified. “When I saw
his face had been smashed. 1
continued walking. He was
just a negro ”

Cornelia Schmalz-Jacob-
sen, federal commissioner
for foreign affairs, called for
stiff sentences for the killers.
“The court should be as
tough on right-wing extrem-
ists as left-wing ones." But
Judge Hartmut Kamp said
it was not for the coin to set
an example.

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Bonn wins
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for new jet

London: The survival of the
£22 billion four-nation Euro-
pean Fighter Aircraft project
looked precarious yesterday
after Germany appeared to
have won support from Italy
and Spain for a new, lighter
Eurofighter (Michael Evans.
Defence Correspondent
writes). If three of foe four
EFA partners agree to build a
“totally new aircraft”, Britain
could be left on her own.

German officials said
Volker Ruhe, the German
defence minister and J ulian
Garda Vargas, his Spanish
counterpart, agreed that re-
maining research and dev-
elopment funds for the EFA
should now go towards de-
signing a lighter aircraft.
About half the £5.5 billion for
developing foe EFA has been
spent so far.

The two met on the sidelines
of a Franco-Spanish summit
on the North Sea island of
Sylt German sources said a
similar pledge was made by
the Italian defence minister in
Venice at the weekend.

Thai pad

Bangkok: Four of Thailand’s
anti-military parties have
agreed to form a coalition gov-
ernment after victory in Sun-
day’s elections- Chuan Leek-
pai. the Democrat party
leader, is to be nominated as
prime minister. (Reuter)

link destroyed

Tbilisi: A bridge between Ar-
menia and Georgia, forming
their only remaining rail link,
was blown up. It is not known
who was responsible. The oth-
er supply route to Armenia
from Russia, through Azerbai-
jan. had already been cut (AP)

GIs help out

lihne: US troops helped dean
up districts devastated by Hur-
ricane Iniki and officials tend-
ed to more than 7,000 people
in shelters on Kauai island.
About 10,000 homes were
damaged in Hawaii’s worst
storm this century. (AP)

Security check

Delhi: India is to set up an in-
dependent human rights com-
mission to investigate charges
of brutality by security person-
nel combating separatists.
Ministers will outline the work
of the commission. (AJV

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for tapes’ payment

The former American presi-
dent. Richard Nimn. unsuo-

ce®Minhiseflbrts to control
access to papers and tapes
focan his Wtite House days, is
rfoddng.a new attempt to be
paid for public cEsdosure of
the documents.

The US Ctwrt of Appeals in
Wa^nngtcm was to bear argu-
ments yesterday in the latest
legal battle over the papers,
induding Watergate-related
material. Mr Nixon, is appeal-
ing against a ruling last year
by Judge John Garrett Penn,
who said the material belongs
to the American people and
die government did not owe
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OVERSEAS NEWS 1 1

Pretoria acts over Bisho killing s

Ciskei chief given
severe reprimand

P r °m Michael Hamlyn in Johannesburg
BRIGADIER Joshua “Oupa”

rinmn r“

^azo. the militaiy ruler of
Ciskei, one of four nominally
independent black horn*
lands, endured an uncomfort-
aWe five houre yesterday in
Pretona, as R. F. “Pik" Botha,
the South African foreign
minister, made his indepen-
dence even more nominal by
giving him a dressing down,
according to government
sources.

Diplomats had suggested
before the meeting that such
control as he had over the tiny
state's armed forces would be
airbed- I n the event there was
no mention of that in the post-
meeting communique.

Even though the Ciskei
Defence Force has been large-
ly run by South Africans on
secondment from, or recently
retired from the South African
Defence Force (SADF), the
little brigadier has been the
ultimate chief, and according-
ly has took the blame for the
deaths of more than 30 Afri-
can National Congress dem-
onstrators outside his capital,
Bisho, a week ago.

Last year Pretoria took con-
trol of his budget, complain-
ing that their money was
being recklessly mismanaged,
and since then has controlled
virtually every aspect of gov-
ernment there except the
armed forces. Even now. the
South Africans will not dis-

miss the brigadier who seized
power in a bloodless coup in
1990.

The Ciskei Defence Force is
commanded by Brigadier
Marius Oelschig. who comes
from South African military
intelligence. The various
chiefs of staff for finance,
logistics and personnel also
come from the SADF. The
man in charge of the troops on
the ground last Monday was
Colonel Horst Schubesberger,
an Austrian, who told a radio
reporter in King William's
Town at die weekend that he
was “only obeying orders**.

Brigadier Gqozo’s defence
minister, Colonel Siphiwo
Pita, is the only minister
remaining in office from the
original militaiy council set up
afterthe 1990 coup.

The first talks to prepare for
the summit between President
de Klerk and Nelson
Mandela, the ANC president
were held yesterday morning.
Rodf Meyer, the constitution-
al development minister met
Cyril Ramaphosa, the ANC
secretary-general. to try to
resolve the difference over
summit preconditions.

Mr Ramaphosa has de-
clared that he expects some
positive steps from the govern-
ment on three items, the
security of the migrant hostels,
the carrying of traditional
weapons, and the release of

Pakistan
accused of
‘neglect’

From AFP
IN ISLAMABAD

BENAZIR Bhutto, leader of
Pakistan’s opposition, accused
the government of “criminal
neglect” yesterday as the worst
floods this century spread
southward, threatening vil-
lages. crops and livestock.

Hie toll of victims has
increased hourly and could
exceed 2,000. even before die
waters reach the southern
province of Sind, which was
ravaged by floods in August
More than 1,000 people are
dead in Kashmir and at least
the same number are missing,
according to official sources.

Material Josses are “colos-
sal”. according to Nawaz Sha-
rif. the prime minister of
Pakistan, who announced a
£20 million emergency aid
plan for disaster zones. Thou-
sands of villages have been
inundated, bridges have been
washed away, roads sub-
merged and thousands of
livestock have perished. Miss
Bhutto forecast famine in the
coming months following the
loss of homes and fields by
tens of thousands of farmers.
• London: Pakistani com-
munity associations in Britain
have set up fundraising ap-
peals and advice lines in
response to the floods and
asked Britain to increase its
donation of £100.000 (Kate
Alderson writes).

UN troops
arrive to
guard aid

By David Watts

FORTY aimed United Na-
tions troops, die first batch of
500 Pakistani soldiers, arrived
in Mogadishu yesterday to
help prevent the looting of
food earmarked for two mil-
lion starving Somalis.

Their objective will be to
restore order at Mogadishu's
port Ten thousand tonnes of
US sorghum has sat undeliv-
ered for two wed cs in a dock-
side warehouse because a dan
dispute has prevented aid
workers from distributing h.
On Sunday a Turkish cargo
ship, canying 6,500 tonnes of
rice, beans and oil, finally
docked after being anchored
offshore for ten days.

The UN Security Council
has authorised the deploy-
ment of 3,500 aimed troops to
Somalia, but only the initial
500-member Pakistani con-
tingent has been approved by
General Muhammad Farrah
Aidid . the country's main
warlord.

Yesterday Baroness ChaJk-
er, the British overseas dev-
elopment minister, witnessed
the plight of Somali refugees
in Kenyan camps. Tramping
through scenes of human
desolation in M and era. and
the nearly town of Majir, at
the borders of Somalia, Ethio-
pia and Kenya, she said:
“What has happened out here
is tragic.”

Moonlighting puts
shine on economy

From Catherine Sampson in shanghai

ai Guangtian handed
over his double-sized
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tides, including Honorary
f Califi ' " "

Citizen of California. Like
one of Shanghai's pre-com-
munist entrepreneurs, he
boasted of his wealth, then
hurried off to where he is
happiest, the dance floor
and the karaoke lounge.

Since he retired nine
years ago. Mr Cat. now 69,
has created an education
empire, the private Qianjin
college, relying entirely on
moonlighting teachers for
his staff. Starting out with
about £20. the former
mathematics teacher now
has 25.000 students and is
a millionaire.

In the past the authors
ties have criticised Mr Cai
for bypassing the state sys-
tem. But since Deng Xiao-
ping. China's senior leader,
gave his blessing earlier
this year to private enter-
prise and moonlighting as
ways to boost the economy,
Mr Cai could be the face of
the future-

-It's not just moonlight-
ing. often it's sunfighting
for me. too," an English
teacher at Mr Cat's college
said. His state school em-
ployers have not scheduled
him to teach for one hour
this term, leaving him free
to spend all his tune at

Qianjin college. As an in-
centive. Mr Cai’s teachers
are paid according to the
results of their students.
The extra income means
that they do not leave for
more profitable careers as
so many teachers have The
teacher pointed to die band
playing for Mr Cai to twirl
on the dance floor. “They're
moonlighting from the con-
servatory." he said.

U nder the state system,
a teacher earns about

as much as a factory worker

_ about £20 a month. An
estimated 20 per cent of
China’s office and factory
workers are surpjusto : re-
quirements. Communist
leaders called for radical
reforms, which mean
streamlining bureaucracies
and laying off millions of
people. But mass unem-
ployment is a recipe for
social unrest
Rather than sacking
workers, bosses kt it be
known that they would not
mind if staff did not turn op
for work. An employee who
does no work cannot expect
to get a bonus, but he will
get most of his wage and
benefits like housing. The
workforce is streamlined,
the employer saves some
money, staff are happy, and
the black economy booms.

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•TV. %.

political prisoners. Mr Meyer
said during a joint television
appearance on Sunday that
these matters could be settled,
but the government was nor
prepared to negotiate on the
basis of ANC demands. There
could be another damaging
breakdown if neither side
compromises.

The government is prepar-
ing legislation to be presented

to the special session of parlia-
liddle of

ment called for the mic
October, which will enable Mr
de Klerk to cream an interim
administration should this be
agreed with the black extra-
parliamentary opposition.
Under the present constitution
cabinet members have to be
MPs. A small constitutional
amendment would enable
them to be drawn from the
non-parliamentaiy groups
provided that they sought
election within a limited
period.

The government is also
preparing legislation to abol-
ish the so-called “own affairs”
ministries.

Best foot forward: women shopping yester-
day for shoes in the Afghan capital Kabul
which is returning to normal as a peace-
keeping force takes control. Afghans who
fled the August fighting between govern-
ment troops and the rebel Hezb-Hslami

group are returning to the city, where a
ceasefire is holding Busloads of refugees
arrive daily from Mazar-e Sharif in the
north and Jalalabad in the east “We came
bade because quietness has returned to
Kabul” said one woman (AFP)

Israel and Syria
remain cautious

From Christopher Walker in Cairo

THE elusive goal of peace
between Israel and Syria was
set to dominate the sixth
round of Middle East talks
that resumed in Washington
yesterday after a ten-day
reoess.

Prospects for an agreement
between the two naghbouis
are likely to overshadow simul-
taneous Israeli talks with Pal-
estinians, Jordanians and
Lebanese. Before the talks.
Israel and Syria made sepa-
rate announcements appar-
ently designed to dampen
expectations of a deal. Yitzhak
Rabin, the Israeli prime min-
ister. reiterated that Israel
would not discuss returning
the occupied Golan Heights
until Syria showed that it
wanted a full peace treaty,
while Farouk al-Sharaa. the
Syrian foreign minister, again
rejected any talk of a partial
solution short of the return of
the Golan.

However. Israeli right-wing
supporters and many Palestin-
ians remained fearful of a
separate peace deal similar to
that signed between Egypt
and Israel in 1979. Golan
senlers have begun a cam-
paign of demonstrations in
IsraeL and Honan Ashrawi.
the Palestinian spokeswoman.

during a speech in Washing-
ton. accused Israel of trying to
drive a wedge between the
Arabs. “This is again another
divide and conquer method."
she daimed.

Yesterday Mr Rabin ac-
cused the Palestinians of skin-
ing the key issue of the peace
talks, that of interim self-rule
For the 1.7 million Palestin-
ians living in the occupied
West Bank and Gaza Strip.
“Our problem with the Pales-
tinians is that they are (tying
to change the subject to less
relevant matters," Mr Rabin
said in Tel Aviv. He daimed
Israel was ready to discuss
human rights, arrests and
house demolitions, but said
these were mere “symptoms".

The Palestinians have hard-
ened their position recently,
daiming that proposals which
would allow Israel to maintain
jurisdiction over nearly 70 per
cent of Wesr Bank land are
totally unacceptable.

• Islamic win: Islamic funda-
mentalists have won a major-
ity in elections for the
Egyptian lawyers' syndicate, it
was announced yesterday. All
1-1 fundamentalist candidates
won places on ihe 24-seat
ruling council, a sign of their
growing strength.

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Regicide
in Russia

Daniel Johnson on the
grim task of identifying
the last of the Romanovs

I t sounds like the plot of a Wexford or Morse
crime novel. An unsolved murder case
resurfaces: 74 years after the crime, the bodies
are finally found. Today a Russian scientist arrives
in Britain with an attache case full of bones, bound
for the Home Office forensic laboratories at
Aldermaston. These bones are almost certainly the
remains of Nicholas II, the last Romanov tsar, and
eight other members of his family and entourage
whom the Bolsheviks shot or bayoneted to death at
Yekaterinburg on July 16. 1918.

By comparing the bones with DNA samples
from living relatives, including members of the
British royal family, a definitive identification will
be possible. There can be no trial. The murderers
and their masters escaped human justice a long
time ago, including the man who was probably the
guiltiest of all: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

F or many years, the Soviet authorities
shielded Lenin from direct complicity, and
even Gorbachev protested his allegiance
until his fall. But recent post-perestroika literature,
such as Edvard Radinsky's The Last Tsar, leaves
little room for doubt that Lenin personally
authorised the ‘‘liquidation’’ of a family which in
1 91 S was still a threat to the revolution.

Regicide is no ordinary crime: it cries out not
merely for vengeance — though regicides have
often been pursued beyond the grave: remember
Cromwell's exhumed corpse hung from a gibbet —
but for expiation. A nation which has permitted is
"little father", his wife and children to be
massacred must somehow make amends. The fact
that Russians never mourned their royal family
before could explain this year’s wave of scholarly
and sentimental interest in the Romanov dynasty.

Victims of regicide are commonly accorded
informal canonisation. Charles I was turned into a
kind of baroque saint within weeks of his
execution, helped by the publication of his
apologia, Eikon Basilike. There were 35 editions
in 1649 alone, in the case of Louis XVI. the oult
focused on his wife Marie Antoinette, and began
long before either was executed: witness Burke’s
famous passage about her in his Reflections: “l
thought ten thousand swords must have leaped
from their scabbards to avenge even a look that
threatened her with insult But the age of chivalry
is gone." The deposed queen wept as she read
these words.

Yekaterinburg was butchery, with die bodies
buried in an unmarked grave, neither pomp nor
dignity; not even a crowd to jeer at the "widow
Capet". Like Hitler, who took revenge on the
families of conspirators after the July plot, the
Bolsheviks believed in Sippenhaft, blood guilt,
slaughtering as many of the tsar’s family as they
could lay their hands on.

T he last tsar was typical of his time and dass.
like Charles 1 and Louis XVI. Nicholas II
was not a brilliant man. His diaries are
famously banal He was also narrow-minded.
When he stayed at Sandringham in 1 894 while
still isarevich, he wrote to his mother to complain
that the Prince of Wales’s house party was “rather
strange. Most of them were horse dealers,
amongst others a Baron Hirsch!" Hiisch was one
of the prince's many Jewish friends, which
Nicholas found bizarre.

Nicholas's tragedy was that he never exerted his
power when it mattered. Kaiser Wilhelm II told
Woodrow Wilson's envoy in 1916: “I and my
aJusins George and Nicholas will make peace
when the time comes.” When the time came, both
emperors had fallen. The conventional wisdom is
that neither man could have made much
difference. Yet in August 1945 another emperor
weighed down by convention. Hirohito. was
derisive. Nicholas could have made a better peace
up to March 1917 than Lenin and Trotsky did at
Brest-Utovsk, and would have saved his
throne. None of this matters now, except to
historians. The Russians will have the Nicholas
they need, whether the last tsar is buried where he
died or in St Petersburg. All the resources of
modem genetic science are being deployed to
authenticate remains which may then, after a
decent Christian burial, join the royal bones that
have been revered fry the pious since prehistoric
times.

In dodging the draft, Clinton and Quayle were typical of middle-class students in the Sixties, says Janet Daley

No stomach for a fight

D an Quayle and Bill Clin-
ton may be ducking and
diving to avoid what has
now become a liability but when
I was an undergraduate at
Berkeley in the Sixties, dodging
the draft was a proud way of life.
To have gone willingly to war
would have been the shaming
option. And this was not only the
view at Berkeley, where we were
inventing what would become
the international student lifestyle
of politics, pot and promiscuity.
It was the coventional moral
wisdom among the thinking
classes of America foal, whatever
your general views on pacificism,
the war which tire Unified States
was waging in Vietnam was. in
the fashionable pejorative of the
time, “obscene”.

There was scarcely a prowar
commentator who was taken
seriously by the intelligentsia.
Interpretations of the military
intervention in Vietnam ranged
from pragmatic regret funwin-
nabie and wasteful”] to the
apocalyptic (“imperialist geno-
cide”). But whatever the colour of

your moral outrage, the conclu-
sion was inevitable. This was a
war in which it was unforgivable
to fight The landmarks of our
youth were mass demonstrations
against the war and in favour of
civil rights. The two issues were
linked then onty by the senti-
ments of the participants; later
the link would prove ironically
apt as a huge disproportion of
those who died in Vietnam were
black. Draft cards were ceremo-
nially burnt — a federal offence
— and recanting Vietnam veter-
ans publicly threw away their
medals in disgusL
But the exhibitionist anguish
of undergraduates was a luxury.
The United States may idealise
militarism as part of its revolu-
tionary heritage, but it believes
even more unequivocally in the
value of higher education. So the
one condition which preserved

you from the draft without
question was to be a student. As a
consequence even, larger num-
bers of my fellow countrymen
than usual developed a passion-
ate desire to go to university and,
having got there, to remain as
long as possible. Since the aca-
demic authorities were them-
selves sympathetic to this pretext,
they obliged whenever possible
with postgraduate places and
teaching assistantships which
made possible the pursuance of
doctorates.

Away from the campuses with
their ritual dashes with police
which dominated tire borne
newspaper coverage, the kids
from the inner does for whom
university was never on tire
cards, were being sent to Viet-
nam- Middle-class offspring
were indulging their moral con-
science while working-class ones

were dying and being maimed,
both physically and spiritually, in
a hopeless and unpopular war.

The overwhelmingly working-
class character of the American
army in Vietnam ha s been
captured with unflinching acc-
uracy in post-war“guiir cinema.
Filins like Apocalypse Now and
Bom on the Fourth of July were
shocking not only because they
were vividly anti-war but because
of the way they depicted the
social make-up of America's
fighting force in Smith east Asia.

The war dragged on, destroy-
ing the political credibility of
presidents and decimating the
fabric of family relations. What
to do when you were finally
turfed out of college became the
dilemma as the late Sixties
arrived and there was still no end
in sight I can recall a postgradu-
ate philosophy student agonising

over whether to become a consci-
entious objector. While opposed
to fighting in Vietnam, he would
not have objected to fighting
Hitler, so could , he legitimately
call himself a pacifist? We debat-
ed this far into the night, finally
concluding that to stretch the
truth might be unethical, but it
was morally preferable to spray-
ing peasants with napalm.

Responsive to market forces as
always, the United States soon
had a growth industry in avoid-
ing the draft. Self-help books
gave a point-by-point guide to
the regulations and their loop-
holes. Guides for following the
weU-wom paths to Canada and
Scandinavia were circulated.

The rid) and well-connected
never had to flee. like one
J.Danforth Quayle, they could
rdy on strings being pulled by
parents to see them into a home-

bound sinecure for the duration.
Bill Clinton, to my purely im-
pressionistic eye. seems to have
been a case of Sixties sensibility:
going to Oxford on a fellowship,
smoking the occasional joint he
seems fairly typical of what the
thoughtful young of his genera-
tion saw as the right priorities.
That he would, if at all possible,
have avoided fighting in Viet-
nam is almost axiomatic.

But that was in a more
innocent age when what Ameri-
cans meant by moral conflict was
the arguments that you had with
your parents. We know now that
there were whole sections of the
population for whom such de-
bate was Ear too academic, in
every sense. And among the
bitter realisations is the discrep-
ancy between what happened to
the boys from the poor dries, and
to the ones from the affluent
suburbs in the d&bdde that was
Vietnam- What is rebounding on
Dan Quayle and Bfll Clinton is
not that they were wrong in their
youth but thai they had the
luxury to be right.

The political price of the pound

A run of good
luck is needed
to save the
Chancellor, says
Peter Riddell

W ith one bound the
beleaguered Chan-
cellor of the Exche-
quer was free. Not
quite. Yesterday’s gyrations in
the finandal markets show that
Norman Lamont and John Ma-
jor have not yet escaped their
predicament over the exchange
rate mechanism (ERM). for all
Downing Street’s claims about a
turning point Each step by the
government over the past few
weeks — Mr LamonfS doorstep
statement the huge internation-
al loan. Mr Major's unequivocal
rejection last Thursday of devalu-
ation and the coordinated ac-
tions of Sunday night — has
committed the prime minister
and the Chancellor even more
firmly to maintaining sterling’s
current parity. By comparison.
Margaret Thatcher's “there is no
alternative" refrain of the early
1980s seems tike .a malleable
aspiration.

Any further ERM realign-
ment involving sterling would be
a big defeat for Mr Major and
Mr Lamont. as devaluation was
for Harold Wilson and James
Callaghan in 1967. Their polit-
ical credibility would be seriously
damaged, and Mr Lamont
might have to leave the Treasury.
However, yesterday’s reduction
in German interest rates, while
smaller than hoped and not
permitting an immediate cut in
British rates, should give him a
little breathing space.

At present. Mr Lamont is in
the familiar position of earlier
Chancellors trying to defend a
fixed exchange rate band. Con-
trary to some recent discussion,
failure is not inevitable. Between
the Second World War and the
breakdown of the B return Woods
system of fixed rates in the early
1970s. there were onty two

devaluations, in 1949 and 1967,
both after long periods of trying
to maintain existing parities. In
1967. James Callaghan regard-
ed the eventual devaluation as
such a defeat for this polity that
he decided to resign as Chancel-
lor. On several other occasions,
though. Chancellors as diverse as
Rjv. Butler, Harold Macmillan
and Sehvyn Lloyd successfully
defended the pound's exchange
rate via international loans,
higher interest rates and coordi-
nated central bank action of the

kind seen in the past few weeks.
Moreover, the floating rate re-
gime of the 1970s and 1980s
aid not prevent frequent sterling
crises. Lake his predecessors. Mr
Lamont has depended on a
mixture of resolution, cunning,
and luck. He has shown plenty of
the first two. surprising the
markets both with the loan to
bolster sterling and with Sun-
day’s moves. But he has so far
had little luck. He took over as
Chancellor shortly after the deci-
sion had been taken by Mr

Major to join the ERM. largely
for political reasons, even though
Treasury officials feared the tim-
ing was wrong, given the state of
the economy. Mr Lamont's 22
months as Chancellor have been
marked by a much longer reces-
sion than anyone feared, and by
the strains on the ERM resulting
from German unification.

There is, in practice, only a
limited amount a Chancellor can
do. The outcome depends both
on how far finandal markets
believe governments are witfing

to go to defend the exchange rate
and on the seriousness of the
underlying economic difficulties.
It- does not matter mud) what
Chancellors say; indeed, any-
thing can be harmful, and costly
to the reserves, as Lord Calla-
ghan found when he had to
answer Commons questions a
few days before the 1 967 devalu-
ation. What matters is actions
and governments can run out of
options.

Temporary borrowings can be
depleted, as happened in 1949,
1967 and 1976; and interest
rates can be raised. But neither
may be sufficient. as the Italian
government discovered last week
after the Bundesbank had to

intervene on a massive scale to
support the lira. The difficulty, as
now, is that after each option is
exercised, a subsequent devalua-
tion looks even more like a
damaging political defeat
The underlying difficulties
contributing to the recent pres-
sures for sterling have not realty
changed. Yesterday's action by
the Bundesbank was a gesture
rather than a basic change in
policy. For all the government’s
attempt to deny that there is a
“sterling crisis”, the British econ-
omy remains weak with no sign
of an upturn before next year.

Mr Lamonfs dilemma now is
that he has used up most, though
not all, his available options. If
pressures on sterling develop
again, then after say the French
vote on the Maastricht treaty
next Sunday, the main available
action would to be raise interest
rates. Senior ministers and ad-
visers to Mr Major stress that the
prime minister is willing to take
thal step if it is the only way to
avoid devaluation.

T he relationship between
die prime minister and
the Chancellor is crucial
to the unity of the gov-
ernment. and there are qo
divisions between the two on this
matter,. Whatever private doubts
some ministers might have
about avoiding an eventual re-
alignment involving sterling,'
there is also no debate or dissent
within the Cabinet on the issue.
Nor is there any possibility of a
challenge by Tory MPs on
economic policy. The main im-
pact may be to strengthen the
hands of the Euro-sceptics who
oppose ratification of the Maas-
tricht treaty. A further complica-
tion is that, simultaneously, the
government faces very difficult
decisions on {public spending,
requiring cuts in some depart-
ments’ future budgets.

At last Thursday’s Cabinet
meeting. Mr Major made a
point of praising Mr Lamonfs
handling of sterling, producing
vocal, if predictable, assent from
other ministers. They know they
are all in the same boat- Mr
Major and Mr Lamont have to
do much more than satisfy the
cabinet They face worried Tory
activists in a month’s time.

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Chapter 6: in which i disagree
with Margaret

Contrary to popular opinion.
Margaret admired those of us
who stood up to her. I well
remember one occasion when we
crossed swords. It was just three
days after 1 had received a
rapturous reception at an impor-
tant speaking engagement ai a
location in the South East The
other members of the Cabinet
had left the room, and os so often
happened the two of us —
Margaret and myself — proceed-
ed to get on with the real business
of government Margaret sug-
gested a major reform of a
particular area of public life.

“You do agree with me. don’t

you?" she added.

In fact 1 did not. and I was not
afraid to tell her so fairly and
squarely to her face. "Frankly,
Margaret. I would by no means
go so far as to say that f entirety
disagreed," I said, in no uncer-
tain terms, f then looked her
straight in the feet took a deep
breath, stuck my heels in and
added, calmly but fairly, “In fact
quite the opposite”. I emerged
from that meeting having in-
creased her respect and admira-
tion for me. Later in the day. I
opened a postbag containing
thousands of letters, all but a
handful tremendously supportive
of my derision to wear a lighter

blue stripe in my shirt over the
warmer summer months.

Chapter 7: In which 1 describe in
vivid detail an important meet-
ing with a major political figure
sometime in the Seventies or
Eighties

At some point during the Seven-
ties or subsequent Eighties, f had
an important meeting with a
major political figure. He or she
informed me through a dose
colleague that there was a matter
of great importance they had to
discuss with me. We met and
discussed the matter at some
length. It was an important
meeting, and I can now reveal
that I came away from it feeling
convinced that 1 had been talking
on a topic of great importance to a
prominent political figure.

Later that day. I received a
standing ovation from an enthu-
siastic audience after making a
speech on a particular matter of
political importance.

Chapter 3: In which I reveal aV
about the large cloud that
loomed on the horizon
At around this stage of my career,
a large cloud began to loom large
on the horizon. One day. I took
the derision to speak in private
with a particular colleague or
colleagues.

“I have to tell you.” I said, quite
openly, “that there is a large doud
dial is beginning to loom large on
my horizon.”

He. she or they then turned to
me. and said: “Whai sort of
doud?”

“A large doud," I said.

"And where is it?"

“Ill be frank." 1 said- "It’s on
the horizon."

We then resumed talking about
other matters of importance. In
the press the next d ay. 1 was
relieved to see that there was not a
word about douds or even hori-
zons. I have always been grateful
to the person or persons con-
cerned for such discretion. That
everting. 1 wrote myself an enthu-
siastic memo welcoming my deci-
sion to confront the large doud
head on.

Chapter 9: In which l confront
the Party Conference
It was to be one of the most
difficult speeches of my political
life. Once again, I chose to
confront the issue head-on.“l am
here today." 1 said, “in my
capacity as a man who is speaking
to you from this platform here
today. I would not be speaking to
you here today if I was elsewhere.
And, let’s make no bones about it
you would not be listening to me
today if you were elsewhere. But
we are not We are all here. Let us
never Forget that. Let us look to
the future without forgetting the
past And — perhaps just as
important in the years to come —
let us never forget the past when
looking to the future. Finally, let
us never ever underestimate the
importance of the present” Need-
less to say, the response of the
audience was deafening: at one
point it even seemed as if they
might be about io applaud. Later
that day. I opened hundreds of
admiring letters, a gratifying and
quite unexpected response to an
afternoon spent with customary
industry, writing them.

Harold, Jim,
John and Norm

WHETHER AS tragedy or farce,
history is set to repeat itself,
according to the historian Ben
Portion, who has just oompleted his
definitive study of Harold Wilson
and the 1967 sterling crisis. The
similarities, down to the veiy
phrases used by Wilson and his
chancellor James Callaghan when
the pound was last devalued a
quarter of a century ago. are
uncanny, according to Pimlott
whose biography Harold Wilson is
to be published this autumn.

Then, as now. Downing Street
ruled out devaluation, ensuring
that the subject dominated all
economic debate. “Once Wilson
had staked his reputation it became
harder to change his mind,"
Pimlott says. "The wish not to
sacrifice honour and credibility
became one of the biggest obstacles
to a change of course."

Like Wilson. Pimlott says. Major
has busily dosed off all alternatives.
As a result the prime minister's
words, in both cases, ensured that
national and personal pride be-
came mextricabty bound up with
what is essentially a technical
derision. Callaghan became the
scapegoat as he was left io defend
the policy, most famously in a no
confidence debate in July 1967.

“Devaluation talk has become
modish among theoretical econo-
mists . . . but it could become
dangerous if listened to abroad,”
Callaghan said, adding that its
proponents had taken a “flight
from reality". Labour rebels de-
manding devaluation were “good
men fallen among bad econo-
mists”. He could almost have ban
John Smith talking about Bryan
Gould today. Less than four
months lajer the pound was
devalued.

“It looks ominously like 1967,"
Pimlott said yesterday. “Politicians
inexorably dig their own graves
and as a historian f have to say
history looks like repeating itself."

If Pimlott is right, the sequel
could be equally interesting. Upon
devaluation in November 1967.
Callaghan resigned “on a point of
honour" but took the considerable
consolation prize of home secretary.
If Major is forced to devalue — and
Pimlott believes it is “when" rather
than “if" — Norman Lamonfs
Treasury position begins to look
equally untenable.

After all it was only six weeks ago
that he insisted: “Devaluation is
fool’s gold. Other countries within
the ERM are not prepared to
sacrifice the hard-won credibility of
their currencies by devaluing them.
Nor are we" Try telling that to the
Italians.

• Not everyone in the Tory party
seems t<? think David Meilor can
survive. The Central Office guide to
events at next month’s party confer-
ence at Brighton, is published
tomorrow and lists a meeting
organised by the Tory parliamen-
tary tourism committee to be
addressed by u the Secretary of
State for National Heritage, Rob-
ert Key”. A prediction that by next
month Melior's deputy will have
taken over his job or simply agood
old cock-up? Central Office . which
produced the guide, isn't saying.

Sertriau snub

THE good folk of Cardiff are tak-
ing sanctions against Serbia very
seriously. So incensed are the city
elders by the Bosnian bloodbath
that they have cancelled an appear-
ance later this month by the Bel-
grade String Orchestra, perhaps
die most prominent ensemble to to
have survived the collapse of
Yugoslavia.

Michael Tearie. organiser of the
Cardiff festival, says: “The DTI
said this was a borderline case, but
it has been decided that we cannot
permit the performance to take
place."

Welsh music lovers will be de-

How do i^oo

w^lsKed'

in Sevbo- Croat f

rued not only Mozart, Shostako-
vich and Elgar frit the first British
performance of a work by the Serbi-
an composer Katarina Mfljkovic.
The orchestra has written to regis-
ter its “dismay", saying it always
believed Britain to stand for the
greater freedom so long denied in
its own country.

Who, me?

NOT only the critics were caught
on the hop by the Booker shortlist
last week. No one was taken more

by surprise than MichSe Roberts,
the onty woman among the au-
thors making it through to the last
six. Indeed until she returned from
holiday in France over the weekend
the author of Daughters of the
House did not even know of her
success in making it to the last
hurdle.

"We were on the the cross chan-
nel ferry where my husband man-
aged to buy a British newspaper,"
she says. “He saw a cartoon in one
of the papers which showed a lot of
men in flat caps at the bookies, one
of whom was reading my book. I
was asleep and he woke me up to
say he thought I must be on the
shortlist”.

Roberts still did not believe it and
only after a swift round-up of the
other British papers on board did
the truth sink in. “We had a large
gin and tonic," she says. “But since
then it’s teen hyper-norm aL I’ve
been cleaning the oven and having
my study redecorated." She will
not, however, be losing any sleep
between now and October J 3 won-
dering if she can cany off the top
prize. Yesterday she confessed she
was happily ignorant even of the
date of foe award ceremony.

• There is a comer of Eton that will
be forever Zimbabwe. Three apes
of Queen ‘s Eyot. the island the coll-
ege owns in the Thames, are to be
tented into a sculpture park for
displaying works by the Shona of
Zimbabwe. College bursar Roder-
ick Watson says: “We wanted a
sculpture park but we were worried
about the security of the sadptum.
Queen’s Eyot is ideal since it is an
island and we have keepers living
there”. Previously the island has
been used only by Old Etonians.
rawing downstream from the coll-
ege to picnic there. Nicholas
Bayldon-Pritchand . of the Contem-
porary Fine Art Gallery, is off to
Zimbabwe to collect the 30 statues
next month.

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THE TIMES TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1992

LESSONS OF REALIGNMENT

^ Ura 811(1 slight easing
of German, interest rates haw shown
u is that the European exchange-

^!^II^T!f n J Cannot continufi with its

2“ h®™? “S* 3 ** with uniform
manacle like prisoners in a chain
gang. When one prisoner trips, the others
uwariabfy stumble in his wake. So it is with a
system of fixed exchange rates.

In the two years since reunification, the
German economy has faltered and the other
li members of the system have last their
balance too because of their self-denying
insistence on avoiding realignments. Free
cunenoes would be best Sunday's realign-
ment, the first for five years, should, at least,
act as the trigger for a return to the old, more
flexible system in which parities were not
maintained against economic common
sense simply as a form of machismo.

If the ERM is to survive, whether the
French vote yes or no in their referendum, it
will have to adopt this more flexible mould.
Now that the Italians have devalued,
currenry traders simply will not believe that
Sunday’s realignment is the last If this
means that the next devaluation will be of
sterling, the most vulnerable currency in the
system, so be iL

The weekend politicking has also at last
put the lie to the notion that the German
Bundesbank is independent from govern-
ment The bank had said as recently as last
week that it did not want to cut interest rates
because domestic conditions did not justify a
loosening of monetary policy. The reduction,
albeit reluctant and parsimonious, was a
reaction both to pressure from the German
government and to the currency market
intervention by other countries which was
threatening to play havoc with Germany’s
money supply.

Those who lament the Bundesbank's lost
independence, such as the Liberal Demo-
crats and City financiers who call for an
independent Bank of England, are mis-
guided. True, politicians try to manipulate
their economies for electoral ends. But they

TEACHERS’ PIPEDREAMS

Union pay claims often have more to do with
internal politics than expectation of success.
So it is with the National Union of Teacherf
optimistic pitch for a 16.5 per cent rise,
submitted yesterday to Sir Graham Day’s
review body. Teachers in the classroom know
that the figure is unattainable, but the
activists who expose the union to ridicule
every Easter expect nothing less. Hie NUTs
leaders dare not risk one of die other five
teachers' organisations showing more am-
bition for its members.

Doug McAvqy, the NUTs general sec-
retary. gave the game away in his comments
on yesterday’s daim. "The government will
tell us that now in the middle of recession it is
not die right time to increase investment in
the service.'’ Indeed it will, and quite rightly
so, if this means raising pay at four times the
rate of inflation. Teachers have done
relatively well in the past two pay rounds,
staffing shortages have practically dis-
appeared from schools, and recruitment to
the profession is buoyant Market forces are
certainly not on the NUTs side.

Like other public servants, teachers have
also been insulated from the worst effects of
the recession on job security. Even given the
pressures of budget cuts and local manage-
ment teachers’ prospects cannot be com-
pared with a precarious existence in the
private sector. Hie government is entitled to
ask them to make some sacrifice in return.

Fortunately for the teachers, however, not
all the omens are unfavourable. John Major
has a longstanding commitment to raising
their status, and the pay review body (which
the NUT still opposes) may offer some escape
from the more rigid restrictions facing other
public servants. Even before his election as
prime minister was secured, Mr Major said,
“Whai I want to achieve is a position where
the man in the woolly sweater and the
battered sedan and the grimy house at the
comer of the street is not the local teacher.”

There is good reason to pursue such an
ideal if the government is serious about its
education reforms. The teaching profession
will not hold the attractions it does today
when economic recovery opens up other
employment opportunities. Schools must be
able to hold on to their best staff and this will
not be easy if they are held toa uniform 2 per
cent pajr rise when morale is already low.
There are some highly desirable aspirations
in the NUTs daim: teachers do need free
time to prepare lessons, and dass sizes are
too large in many parts of the country. But to
expect to achieve them in a recession, while
also securing excessive pay rises, is simpfy
irresponsible. In the current economic
dimate, the first result of accepting the
union’s daim would be to make thousands of
its members redundant

Onfy by accepting performance-related
pay can teachers hope to move up the pay
league: To pretend that all 400,000 teachers
are worth identical rises, or that there is no
way of telling the good from the poor, is a
fiction that few other groups still ding to.
Pupils have always been aide to identify the
best teachers, as has any decent head of
department A system that rewards ex-
cellence in the dassroom. and not just a
willingness to take on extra duties, is' long
overdue.

John Patten, the education secretary, has
given the review body a dear indication of
the type of arrangements he wants, and will 1
make a more detailed submission later tins
week. He has ruled out a return to the
invidious system of payment by results, and
has asked Sir Graham to put more power
into the hands of head teachers. Schools are
eminently capable of devising pay structures
that protect the living standards of all staff
while rewarding the best They must be given
as much freedom as possible if the govern-
ment's devolution of responsibility is to add
up to anything more than rhetoric.

DOWN WITH ST CAKE’S

Only in Britain could there be a self-help
group for those scarred by. boarding school.
In most other countries, only had or unfor-
tunate children are sent away from home at a
tender age. Only those already deemed ripe
for social working are locked up by strangers
in a communal barracks, forced to sleep in
expensive dormitories, kept ever ready to fag
(an English term that alarms Americans)
and be builied and flogged.

Bur in Britain, from the Renaissance
onwards, foreign visitors have remarked on
the strange native custom of sending
ordinary well-behaved children away from
home as soon as possible, originally to court
or the household of the local magnate, and
then to the public schools — another English
phrase that puzzles foreigners. They usually
conclude that the English prefer their
animal* to their children. . ,

Bv the accidents of histoiy and national
idiosyncrasy, the boarding schoo plays a
unique role in English histoiy and literature.
Boarding-school discipline is said to incul-
cate typical English virtue, rangmgfrom the
stiff upper Up to the thm red line, and
including that most potent offdl networks,
JToVschool tie, From Tom Bjvms
Schooldays to Daw Pulls it Off, the
boarding school is the source of the unique
English Bildungsrvman; and millions of
children who had no prospea of being sent
w boarding school assimilated its ethos from
fictional establishments such as ramie
Grcyf riars and St Trinians or Sr Chad s.

English institutions from construe to
d refects and tuck-shops, and from cold
baths muscular Christianity and dicker
(and rugby) to playing up. playing up. and •

playing the game like English gentlemen,
rather than playing to win. grew directly .
from the boarding schools. When the Duke
of Wellington asserted (if he did) that the
battle of Waterloo was won on the playing
fields of Eton, he was perhaps referring to the
bloody bare-fist fights that used to take place
behind the Fives courts, and hardened his
lieutenants to hard pounding.

But if the French bullets did not get them,
their earlier experiences almost certa in ly did
— or so argue those tunning the recovery
programme described on our news pages
today. Self-help therapy is supposed to stop
those who might otherwise end up like
Captain L E. G. Oates (Etonian, of course),
walking out into the Antarctic blizzard
saying he might be gone some time.

Along with its triumphalism, the English
have often before now creatively recognised
the down side of boarding school from
Dothebqys Hall to Captain Grimes and If.
There have always been children who have
persuaded themselves that they were wretch-
edly unhappy at school, whether boarding or
day, and toe always wfil be.

The latest group. Boarding School Survi-
vors, for men who fed emotionally scarred by
foe allegedly happiest days of their lives, meet
in London to confess their miseries and
chips, and to re-enact their past with
photographs of schooldays. It may sound
what pubHcschooI boys would call “wet”. It is
a sign of foe potency of boarding^chool
values that when Margaret Thatcher, no
Cheltenham Lady she, wanted an epithet to
describe her opponents in the Tory party, she
reached for that classic of boardzng-a&ool
slang. But at least it could only happen here.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

I Pennington Street. London El 9XN Telephone 071-7S2 $000

are conspicuously unsuccessful witness both
John Major and George Bush fighting
elections in the middle of a recession. The
great disadvantage of a so-called indepen-
dent central bank is that politicians can get
away with mismanagement of economic
policy.

- Germany and America are usualfyhdd up
as peerless examples of economies run by
high-minded central bankers untainted by
political influence. The history of the past 15
years in both countries shows otherwise.
Governments blame central banks for
keeping interest rates higher than politics
would dictate. The banks daim high i n terest
rates are necessary because the government
is playing fast and loose with public
spending. Each then tries to compensate fra:
the other's perceived sins: interest rates stay
punitive, while the deficit widens.

If both monetary and fiscal policy are
under the control of one authority, they can
be used to reinforce rather than compete
with each other. Governments can cut
interest rates and tighten public sp endin g at
the same time. Of course politicians win
sometimes make bad decisions, but that is
their prerogative at least they can be thrown
out of office, unlike unaccountable central
bankers.

Here lies a lesson for post-Maastricht
Europe. Even if foe French vote yes on
Sunday, the stirrings of unease with foe j
treaty will have to be addressed. The j
Bundesbank’s obsession with reducing infla-
tion at the expense of growth and prosperity,
and its onfy grudging response to pressure
from politicians, are merely a foretaste of
what life would be like under European
monetary union with an independent central
bank. Most Europeans would not be
prepared to see their economies in prolonged
recession for the sake of the odd percentage
point off foe rate of inflation. Their
preferences should count with those ap-
pointed to run economic policy. In the
present treaty, such accountability is sadly
lacking.

Medical insurance under scrutiny Housing needs in the countryside

From Mr George Foster

Sir, Anyone reading foe report on
medical fees and a possible "cartel"
(September 9) could be forgiven for
being puzzled as to where foe cartel
actually existed.

In private health care today we are
in a position where foe largest health
insurance company (Bupa) owns over
50 per cent of foe private hospitals in
foe United Kingdom. It is thus in a
position to set foe rates that these
hospitals charge and these are fol-
lowed broadly % the majority of other
private hospital companies.

This large health insurance com-
pany then issues guidelines on fees to
which foe overwhelming majority of
consultants adhere and completes the
circle by controlling foe subscriptions
from its customers seeking private
health insurance cover.

Thus, if a cartel does exist it is
amongst foe medical insurance com-
panies and certainly not amongst foe
medical profession, but 1 am sure foe
majority of my colleagues are like
myself, in that we are happy to comply
as we do not like to feel our patients
are out of pocket when they seek their
private treatment; a situation that does
not seem to pertain when I try to daim
on either ray house or my car
insurance policies.

Yours faithfully.

G. E. FOSTER
(Consultant surgeon;,
Grosvenor Nuffield Hospital,
Wrexham Road, Chester.
September 9.

From Mr P. A. Ring

Sir, A newly-appointed consultant to
the NHS in a dmical specialty rapidly
finds that he can fill two or force
sessions in the local private hospital
undertaking work that is generated
primarily by the existence of foe
hospital rather than his own particu-
lar professional reputation.

Clearly there is a need to change the
contractual arrangements of such
appointments. A system in which fees
earned in private practice revert to the
primary employing authority. Le, foe
local district, is one that some aca-
demic institutions, particularly
abroad, have used, and has some
merit in overall funding, but is

On the record

From Mr Richard Noble

Sir. Your September 7 issue carries
both a report (“Campbell aims for
record”) and a leading article
(“Record addiction") on the attempt
which Don Wales plans to make on a
speed record in an electric car. The
following facts may help to put this
story in perspective:

1 . Up to £2 million is a lot to spend on
a 'small electric car targeted at
achieving a 275mph dass record. Hie
American driver, A1 Teague, has just
readied 410mph with a single-
engine, wheel-driven car. funded
solely on his limited personal re-
sources. We, the Thrust Team, spent
about £2 million over nine years
achieving foe current world land
speed record in 1983.

2. 275mph on salt is considered
neither fast nor dangerous these days.
Assuming a competently designed
and built car, the risk is marginally
greater than driving at legal speeds on
a motorway.

3. The British media appear to be
obsessed with foe Campbell name.
Interestingly, recent land speed
record drivers, Breedlove, Arid ns,
Teague and myself. were all in-
fluenced far more by foe outstanding
achievements of John Cobb, who was
never interested in personal publicity.

Sensibly, Don Wales is out to create
his own name and identity. I wish
him every success and would tike to
offer him any help, if ever he needs it

Yours faithfully,
RICHARD NOBLE.
56 Ormond Avenue,
Hampton, Middlesex.

Stuck for a song

From Mr Malcolm Penny

Sir. I agree with Mr Michael Howells
(letter. August 3 1) that foe British are
sadly short of a repertoire when it
comes to singing in public (other
letters. September 5. 1 1. 12). How-
ever. after many years of singing in
pubs with my small country band I
can recommend the following tides as
those of which people will at least join
in the chorus:

“Cockles and mussels". “Come
landlord fill the flowing bowl". “Any
old iron?”, “The drunken sailor.
“The wild rover (our most requested
number), “Clementine”. “My old
man said follow the van”, “Daisy,
Daisy", “Blow the man down", and
“Waltzing Matilda”.

They may not be traditional in the
strictest sense, but they are songs in
English which people fed they know.

To finish the evening, we play
“Pack up your troubles", “Show me
foe way to go home”, “Irene, good-
nighT, “Tipperary" and “Goodnight
ladies".

I remain. Sir. your truly,
MALCOLM PENNY
(The Wickwar Ceilidh Band),
The Stables, Dilham, Norfolk.

Letters to the editor should carry a
daytime telephone number. They
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unlikely to find general acceptance
within the profession.

It would be more realistic to
acknowledge that in any clinical
consultant appointment some sessions
would be spent in the private hospital
and that these sessions would be paid
at a fixed rate, somewhat higher than
that which the health service offers.

Yours faithfully,

P. A RING

(Consultant orthopaedic surgeon).
Gatwick Park Hospital,

Povey Cross Road, Horiey, Surrey.
September 9.

From Sir Christopher Pinsent

Yours faithfully,
CHRISTOPHER PINSENT.
The Chestnuts, Castle Hill,
Guildford. Surrey.

September 10.

From Ms A ngela Minoli

Sir. I once enquired of my sister, who
lives in Canada, how soon she needed
to have a forthcoming operation. She
replied: “Certainly before the end of
my surgeon’s financial year!”

Yours faithfully,
ANGELA MINOLI.
1 84 Llandaff Road.
Pontcanna, Cardiff

Education standards

From the Chairman of the
Headmaster s' Conference

Sir, What could have been a construc-
tive discussion on GCSE standards
(letters and leading article. September
7) has been polarised and exag-
gerated.

It has been apparent, ever since the
examination was introduced, that
standards in some areas have fallen
(this was already happening to some
O levels); that foe standards of some
examination boards are higher than
those of others (as was foe case for O
levels): and that the gap between
GCSE and A level can present
problems.

It has been equally apparent that in '
other areas standards have held up
wdl, that the courses have been
demanding and imaginative (both for
teachers and for pupils); that foe
results achieved have been well
earned; and that good teaching can
continue to ensure a successful trans-
fer to an increasingly wide variety of
posi-GCSE courses.

Standards always need reviewing.
So do systems of examination and

Smoking on trains

From the Vice-Chairman of the
Royal Bank of Scotland

Sir, I am a banker. I am also a fervent
cigarette smoker. Faced with foe
necessity last Saturday to make a
journey by rail from Nottingham to
Birmingham I therefore took particu-
lar pains to reserve a seat in a smoking
area of foe coach.

After 25 minutes or so we arrived at
Derby, to be advised that this train
was being withdrawn from service
and we should therefore transfer to
another, where 1 found no “smoking
seats" were available. The only seats
unoccupied belied any suggestion that
smokers are primarily responsible for
foe filthy state of our trains.

When we eventually arrived at
Birmingham New Street — one hour
late on a journey scheduled io take one
hour in total — it was to be met by a

Controlling squirrels

From Mr Alan Morriss

Sir. Your leading article on squirrels
(“Reds versus greys", September 9)
seems to owe more to emotion and foe
promptings of the forestry industry
than to informed comment and rea-
son. All squirrels damage trees: reds
destroy pines and other conifers, and
greys damage deciduous trees. A pair
of red squirrels require about five acres
of pines to sustain them.

The real problem is one of numbers.
Predatois such as pine martins and
goshawks have been reduced to such
low levels thai foe only real enemy of
foe squirrel is foe fox. Early this
century, landowners were advised to
introduce greys into their woodlands
to replace the “harmful” red!

On this estate we have never
attempted to control squirrel numbers
and have found that over the years the
population fluctuates wildly. We curse
foe damage they do to beeches —

From Mr Clive Aslei

Sir. Your health services correspon-
dents’ report (September 9) quoted a
medical insurance spokesman as say-
ing that the pricing of procedures was
done tty the British Medical Associ-
ation alone, without assistance from
the insurance companies.

Is this perhaps but foe visible top of
an iceberg, beneath which is the fact
that medical insurance, whether pri-
vate or national is more or less
effectively controlled not by foe
subscribers but try foe orthodox medi-
cal profession itself?

If this were not foe case, subscribers
would be covered for a number of
other proven and economical arts of
healing such as chiropractics and
acupuncture.

Most of us admire engine drivers.
But that did not prevent us in foe past
from observing that the noble Asso-
ciated Society of Locomotive En-
gineers and Firemen appeared to be
holding foe nation to ransom.

Sir. It is wrong to blame newcomers
for obstructing economic develop*
ment in the countryside (lending
aitide, September 10). Of course they
want to prevent new construction
when they can be sure the result will be
miserably inappropriate to the sur-
roundings. The fault lies not with
them but with some of the threadbare
ideas that govern planning.

On foe whole, foe planning system
has been effective in preventing foe
worst excesses of development in our
countryside, which remains the most
beautiful in the world. Unfortunately,
foe quality of the development which
gets through foe net is for the most
part atrocious.

Britain's top architects build almost
exclusively in dries. The efforts of most
speculative house builders and other
developers display an impoverish-
ment of imagination that is the shame
of Britain.

Recently there have been signs that
a different kind of country architecture
— one worthy of the name — is
possible. But the planning system,
remorselessly subuiiranising as it is.
continues to encourage all the wrong
forms of development while putting

rational development beyond hope of
achievement Fresh thinking by the

achievement. Fresh thinking by foe
Department of the Environment
would help produce buildings that
even some hardened Nimby-isis
might like. Higher standards would
begin to overcome the passionate
opposition to change presently felt not
just by newcomers, but established
country dwellers too.

Yours faithfully,
CLIVE AS LET
(Editor designate).
Country Life.
icing's Reach Tower.
Stamford Street, SE1.
September 10.

From Mr Phil Turner

Sir, The Duke of Westminster and his

colleagues (report. September 10) are
to be congratulated for drawing
attention to the increasingly serious
problems facing our rural areas and in
particular the need for appropriate,
affordable housing.

The shortage can be remedied onfy

assessment If foe launch of foe GCSE
had been accompanied by less official
euphoria, there would be less alarm
about the present criticisms. No
system represents a panacea.

Yours faithfully,
DOMINIC Ml LROY,
Aropleforth College. York.

From Mr Joe Ruston

Sir, Mr Leiwy (letter, September 14)
falls into a common logical trap. The
general cannot be proved, or dis-
proved. fay the particular. My evidence
of declining standards in A-level
physics (September 7) was not in-
tended to apply to all subjects.

However, in exams in science and
mathematics the level of difficulty is
generally set by the question rather
than, as may be foe case in histoiy. by
foe answer. Consider “Find a value of
x that satisfies foe equation 4 = 2 - x."
This is a question that can only be
answered at one (not very high) level of
difficulty.

Yours faithfully.

JOE RUSTON (Director).
Mander Portman Woodward.
24 Elvaston Place. SW7.

volley of announcements that “it is an
offence to smoke in New Street
station". Squeezed in between these
announcements was another brief
message telling me that my connect-
ing train io Birmingham airport
would be delayed. Time apparently
did not permit the announcer to tell us
by how long.

I gave up in disgust and took a taxi
As 1 settled down with my cigarette,
foe question uppermost in my mind
was why. with such rich pickings
available, foe press finds it necessary
to devote so many column inches to
foe quality of service provided by our
banks?

Yours faithfully,

CHARLES WINTER.
Vice-Chairman,

Royal Bank of Scotland,

PO Box 3 1 . 42 St Andrew Square.
Edinburgh.

Septembers.

which only seems to occur in hard
weather and when numbers are'high
— but the trees seem to grow anyway.

Two factors seem to control the
squirrel population: some son of vims
disease, which breaks out when the
population density is high: and
particular foxes learning to exploit this
abundant food source.

The people who wish to poison grey
squirrds usually persecute foxes as
well. What we need is a programme to
build up the numbers of goshawks to
the level found in Germany, where
they are seen in town parks. However,
the game preservationists would nor
like this. They prefer to wipe out the
predators in order to maximise foe
gamebird numbers for shooting, and
then poison the resultant booming
squirrel numbers.

Yours,

ALAN MORRISS,

Pippingford Park. Nutley. Sussex.

by action on the pan of develop ers and
in particular rural landowners. Low-
cost land is necessary to build cheap
housing. A number of enlightened
landowners hare recently set an
example by making land available at
less than normal market value.

Even if all planning controls were
swept away it is unlikelv that an
abundance of affordable housing
would result. A far more likely cause of
shortage is a mass of large “executive-
style" homes catering for i he wealthier
sections of the community.

The Royal Town Planning Institute
supports the efforts being made in
many areas for agencies such as foe
Rural Development Commission,
conservation groups, developers and
local authorities to work together on
agreeing and implementing inte-
grated rural development strategies.

Yours truly,

PHILTURNER
(Chairman. Countryside Panel).
Royal Town Planning Institute.
26 Portland Place. WI.
September 1 1.

From Professor Gordon E. Cherry

Sir. The thrust of the Duke of
Westminster's enquiry is to be wel-
comed. A significant shift is required
in planning policies.

National policies haw related too
much to matters of form and we have
been content to freeze-dry our land-
scape in its “traditional'’ appearances.
Bui this is io forget function and the
long-term pressure for change.

The chances are that the 2 1st
century countryside will be relatively
more urbanised and more industrial-
ised than at any time since the middle
of foe 19fo century. Various tech-
nological. economic and social forces
are sending us down this road and
they are not necessarily malign to
either environmental interests or the
state of our towns and dries.

There is a balance to be struck; a
realignment in planning strategy so as
to address pressing economic and
soda! problems is long overdue.

Yours faithfully.

G. E. CHERRY.

Quaker Ridge. 66 Meriden Road,
Hampton-in-Arden.

Solihull. West Midlands.

Meeting of minds

From Lord Glendevon

Sir. Your industrial correspondent
states (report. September 9} that an
historic new era of dialogue between
employers and workers is “in pros-
pea” as a result of the TUCs
statesmanlike invitation to foe diree-

S eneral of foe CB1 to address its
irence in Blackpool
I have longed for a situation like
this for many years, ever since foe
National Federation of Building
Trades’ Operatives blazed the trail 30
years ago when it invited me, as
minister of works, to speak at its
conference.

This came about as a result of the
quarterly meetings of a group of both
sides of the building materials in-
dustry under my chairmanship. The
union's delegation was led by its
general secretary. Sir Richard Copp-
ock, and we got on very well together.

The invitation was naturally
controversial within the union but it
went ahead. Nobody walked out (al-
though it is true that very few had
walked in).

1 believe foai this was the first
instance of a union asking a Conser-
vative minister to Its conference. Now
indeed things may be looking up.

Yours faithfully.
GLENDEVON,
House of Lords.
September 9.

Classic FM

From Mr A. R. Hudson

Sir. In all the eulogies in your feature
about foe music on Classic FM (Life &
Times. September 9) only Brian
McMaster, Direaor of the Edin-
burgh FestivaL mentions that every
few minutes foe music is interrupted
for advertisements.

Mr McMaster thinks that foe
commercials “are the price we pay'*,
but does he noi realise that foe
consumer pays Tor both commercial
programmes and adverts and every
rime he goes shopping the cost of the
commercial stations is added io the
price of goods he buys?

Yours faithfully.

A. R. HUDSON,

56 Brookfield Gardens,
Ryde, Isle of Wight
September?.

light in our darkness

From Sir Charles Moti-Radclyffe

Sir, With foe Balkans in chaos,
millions threatened with death by
starvation in Somalia and Ethiopia
and the EC shuffling uncertainly like
a nearly blind man on a pedestrian
crossing, there is one flicker of light at
the end of a dark tunnel.

The Times reported on September 8
that the EC countries have agreed on
legal protection for bats which is
expected to come into force within the
nexi two years.

Business letters, page 2 1

Yours faithfully,

CHARLES MOTT-RADCLYFFE.
Bamingham Hall. Madaske,
Norwich, Norfolk.

September 10.

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CLARENCE HOUSE .
September 12: Hie LactyAit-
gda Oswald has succeeded the
Lady Margaret Colville as
Lady-in-Waiting to Queen
Elhabefc The Queen Mother.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
September 14: The Prince
Edward this afternoon re-
turned to Rqyal Air Force
Nortbottfrom a visit to Spain.

Lieutenant Colonel S ean
O’Dwyer was in attendance.

KENSINGTON PALACE
September 14: The Prince of
Wales. Cotonel-in-Ghiet the

Today’s royal
engagements

The Prince of Wales win present
the Community Enterprise
Scheme Awards at Edinburgh
Castle at II JO: win open me
Whitley Fish Counter Weir at
Banchory-Devenick on the river
Dee at 3.00; and will reopen the
Burned Memorial on Soduy HiD,
Banchory, at 4 JO.

The Duke of Gloucester, as Grand
Prior of the Order of St John, win
open die St John Ambulance
Headquarters. Hook Road,

'jcpiilTTT^iVTiirTr-Tlir

exhibition “Tibetan Art at Spink”
at Spink & Son. 5-7 King Street. St
James's. 5W1. at7.00.

The Ducbess of Gloucester wiD
open the new youth wing at Emily
Ratty School Genfidd Road.
Leicester, at 2.05; wiD open the
Leicester Disablement Services
Centre at Leicester General Hos-
pital at 3.10; and will open Smart
Court, the Church of England

Pensions Board’s flew residential

home far die Clergy. Kibworth
Beauchamp, Haiborough. at

Birthdays today

Prince Henry of Wales is eight
today

The Rev Professor PJL Acfcroyd,
theologian, 75; Mr Richard
Anudl. co m poser and conductor.
75; Mr Charles Bone; mural and
watercolour painter, 66; die Mar-
quess of Bristol 38; General Eva
Burrows, international leader;
Salvation Army, 63; Dame Sylvia
Crowe, landscape architect 41;
Lord Eden of Winson. 67: Profes-
sor Brian Fender, vice-chancellor.
Keek: Umvashy, 5& General Sir
Victor FioGeorge-BaUbur. 79; Dr
Rxhaid Gordon, author. 71; Sir
Philip Harris, former chairman,
Harris Qocensway, . 50: Lord
Ki nnai rd. 80: Miss Jessye Nor-
man. soprano, 47; Viscount Nor-
wich. 63; Mr Glen Renfrew,
former chief executive. Reuters; 64;
Sir CBve Rose; diplomat. 71; Mr
Justice Schiemana 55; Lachr
Soames, 70; Sir Pete Sudd,
farmer Lord Mayor of London,
76; Mr Graham Taylor, manager,
England football team. 48: Sir
Richard Way. former principal
King's College. London. 78; Sir
John Williams, diplomat. 70.

Olsen lecture

The second annual Olsen lecture
will be de&vered by P. D. James on
“The Moral Responsibility of the
Novelist" at St Bride's Church,
Fleet Street, at 6.30pm on Thurs-
day. September 1 7.

West Nova Scotia Regiment,
this morning received Colonel
Charles MacLeDan, Honorary
Colonel of the Regiment, at
Kensington Palace.
KENSINGTON PALACE
September 14: Princess Alice.
Duchess of Gloucester, Cdo-
nd-in-Chief. the King's Own
Scottish Borderers, was
present at aluncheon given by
the Trustees of the Regiment
at Drybuzgh Abbey Hotel St
Boswells, Roxburghshire,
Scotland.

Dame Jean MaxweD-Scott
was in attendance.

Appointments
in the Forces

Royal Navy

CAPTAIN: BAdUPS-BOLSAOmalfalLS

cure J6J0.92; B Ldghtda -

Pi M l wi O um 13.2-93. . .

COMMANDER: T H Boycott - MOD
London 18.1252; 74 F Prior - MOD
London 52.93; a R Hytner- Sa Bonn
i M2.92; R W Talma - Naples
13.1092.

Royal Marines

COLONEL- It Col C G B Dunlop to-be
UK Col and to RCDS 7.1.99.

MAJOR: MaJ I McNem to Dept of
CCRM and to be Act u Col 20.1 1 52;
Mai J V V Parker to 40 Cdo RM
1BA232.

TheAimy

BRIGADIER: CLEllioe-tn Staff CoG.
14592.

COLONEL- C S SQran - to HO
AFSOUTH (BA0. 14.952: M J

RtdlfngOQ - to MOD. 1 7992.
IXEUTBNANT COLONEL L A S Abdui-
Aziz RAMCto BMB Isertotmft31 Gen
Hosp, 14.992; S B M Coot RADC to HQ
Bt Technical Svcs HAOR. 14.992; D. A
Gaw RADC to HQ * Central Group
RADC 199.92; PMBltmdeU RB-TO be
Conutt the Queens Gorldia Eagrs,
16.9.92;/ H dough BCT-to beComd
Tpt and MOV HQ BFHK, 15992; F
DvdesRRW-tobeCO lutw. 18.9.92;
C W G DoOble ROSB - tO MOD,
16.992: M R M EUot QDG - to be CO

S DG. 149.92; A J MtnRA- to be CO 4
1 Rest. 1 89.92; S J A Flanagan Kings
Own Border - to be CO 4 Km® Own
Border, 14.992; DPHBghesR Signals
- to MOD. 14992: J C McCofl R
Anglian - to be CO 2 R Anglian.
14.9.92; D J McLean R Signals - to
Sarigoom. 149.92; A C L Potter PWO -
to be CooKlt inf Trials and Dev Unit
14.9.92; IDE Russell Queens - to
MOD. 14992; M J Rust ECT to be
Cnmd Tpt and Mov HQ Scot-
land/! AFHQ. 14.9.92.

BRIGADIER: WR MtmdeD IattDWK.
17.992.

COLONEL- A F Cuter late B Signals;
18.9.92: M H Dra-Drtny late LL
159.92; D Hunt late R signals.
169.92: M S Louden late I Signals.

1 59.92; RF Stewart late RCT. 18992.

Royal Air Force

AIR COMMODORE: N M Griffltbs - to
MOD 14992.

GROUP CAPTAIN: A B Neal - ID RAF
Klnloss 7992: a Buchan - to HQ'
RAFSC 79.92: C J Meocowe - n MOD
7.952; I Dorrttt - to MOD 7992: N R
living - to RAF Maifcam 14992; PO
Stnriey- to RAF Cottesmore 14.9.92; C
J Rowe - to HQ RAFSC 14992.

WING COMMANDER: D G Moons -
QASC Cmnwell 249.92: DJ Bodge- to
2FTS Shawtany 24992; M C Heath -
to HQ l GP 28992; R J Stephens - to
DUS (RAF) 19.92; G R C CoUlns -to
DDSMIO (RAF) 149.92; K E Skinner -
to MOD (PE) Riyadh 31992; R J
Cartwright - to hq UK Air 1992; H
NonhQr - m MOD D Pen 1 992: P D R
Jolly - to Nato Staff Northwood 4.9.92;
PN Halfter- hjHQSTC 149.92; PEC
Bariow -to RAF StMawgan 159.92.

Luncheon

Rotary Ctah of London
Mr Neville Sfaulman. President of
the Rotsiy Chib of London, pre-
sided at a luncheon hdd yestenJay
at the Marriott Hood. Mr Ian
Bruce. DirwaorGeneral of foe
Royal National Institute for die
Blind. was the speaker.

Latest Wills

▻ .Archaeology

Recent wills indude:. - • • *■
Mx$ Eugenie BoodtexvoT Abbots
Leigh. Bristol lateof LeighWoocEs;
Bristol left estate valued- a*
E4.21 9.474 net She left £29.000,
two cottages and some efSa&.fo

personal legatees; E5.000 each to
the Salvation Army and YMGA:
£2.000 each to St Swi&Qflft
Church. BafofonL and St Mqgyfe
Church, Leigh Woods £1.000 and
bo- “Ikona" to the Orthodox
Church of foe Nativity of foe
Mother of God. Bristol £1.000 to
foe Samaritans, Taunton ami'
Somerset Branch and foe residue
tofoeRNLI.

Commander Sir Clive r «<*««*«» of
London SW1. director of foe
g o v er n men t's •" Gommiinications
HO. Cheltenham, from 1960-64,

Service Selection Board 1967-70,
left estate valued at £87.871 net
Mr. Donald Thomas
London NW1. the. artor , and
pfetfwrighL..left state valued at
£518,833 net •

Mr George' Harold Newsom, QC,
offfithaptflninfng^ Write . Qian .

oeflor of foe Dfooeses of St Albans*
Bath and Wdb and of Tondon. left
esfifte valued at £5 19.541 net -

Other estates include (net before
taxpauQ:

Joyce Mary Lennon, of Rugby.

Warwickshire £525.657

Kathleen Rostra Nathan, of
Chearsley. Buckinghamshire

£632398

Mr Harry Felix Para i sBcu , of
Sydting St Nicholas,* Dorset.
£593392..

Mr Edward John. P ar tri dg e, erf

P aik n oo e. Dorset £609,660

Mabel Smith, of Sheffield.,
£1.984.446

Margaret Dallaway SfoBard. of
West Ottering. West Sussex
£520.172

Mr Thomas Hanbuiy Frankfis-
Adamtt of WokJingharn. Surrey
£1.600322.

Mr-Deoick John J jrn ric n d. of
l&aaksQme Part 'Dorset

£724001 . • .

Mrs Katherine Edifo Cool <rf

C fltn wtf i M ti, fjTnht . £g] 3 , 223 -

Mis Doris' Margaret Criap, of
Peterborough. Cambs_ £64 1 351.
Mrs Helen .Hyland. Darby, of
Ldwsonford. '. Derbyshire
£1337388-

Mzs Elizabeth Andrqr EHat. of

Oxted, Surrey £569.01 3.

Mis Kathleen Jrniringt. of High

Wycombe,. Bucks £574383.

Stephanie Meyer, of Hflkroft
Crescent London W5 _ £785394.
Mis Winifred Gladwyn Paaeoe, off
Menlove Avenue, Liverpool
£799.664.

Mr Hugh Uoyd PRgh, of Craven

Mrs Clarence Mary Louisa $anp-
soa. off Asfateafo Surrey £568371:
EDen Speak, of Oifoeioe.

Lancs—i £966,286.

Mr Rupert Langley Stocks, of

Hjhon, Cambs— £968.527.

Florence Edith Tolky. of Brigh-
ton. East Sussex — — £694355.
Florence .Maqorie Young, irf
Wilton ie Ware, Co Durham
£879391.

Student finds
fortune on wall .

A pottery plaque found byaShef-
JBdd student in a house she bought
was add yesterday for £22.500.

Henry Spencer and Sons, the
Sheffield auctioneers, said the
Lambeth -charger showing a vil-
lage scene was a rarity because the
predominant colour was yellow, a
shade extremely difficult to achieve
in tbeeady eighteenth oemury.

A spokesman said: ‘When the
owners left they said she could
have it because its removal would
lave left a dark ring on the wall-
paper." The seller wuld use some
money to pay for her course.

return of obelisk Srs

By Norman Hammond

ETHIQPIAI§' laia / Italian
scholars hawj<§ned-fbfces to
demand thar fiafy scnd back
an ancient obexidc tadben htnn
Etfakgjia by ^ossoihri. The
trfxiislL nearly 2.000 years
old, once stood m tihe historic
dty nf.Aleanri, and is one of
the most striking mrarrijilM of
S to nec a r v ing and engineering
south erf Egypt
Aksun^ or Axmn, was the
caqrflal erf a state which con-

capital. The second largest of
the Aksum obebisks vvas duty

in nont of the Ministry of
I talian Africa, (now the head-
quarters of the UN’s Food arid
Agriculture Organisation.
FAO) on October 28, 1937.
the fifteenth anniversary of
MussoJmfs March on Rome.

Although Italy agreed , to
restore looted works of art and
objects of historical impo r-

ScbbbLnewB

CaSrtham School .

The A utum n Term at Catnham
began oa September T IO. 1992.
Qnidclwcgi has beep ^pointed
Senior Pretect and Wendy Lawson
asDqputySemor Prefect Satoshi
Jayaweera^is Capttan of lki^y.
Old • Caterhamlan, ‘ Angus
Deaytpa wfll be the guts weaker
at foe Anrihal Dinner dri Friday,
October 23; at the school.
FoundedsD^wOlhe on Saturday,
November 7 and thepreachcrwill
6e foe Rev Mafobhn Hanson,
former Moderator of foe URC,
and Old Cateshamians Day is
R « m an l iq w . Sunday. -Novem-
berft The School Play go Decem-
berlO- IttFriarBacoriMndjFriar
Bungay commemorating~ die

400fo Aattmvfasaiy of foe rieath of
the author Robot Green, The
Carol Service wiD he bdd on
Suadqy. December 13. .
NcMinBcp, Baftenea
Newton Prep, winch opened its
dbcis in September 1 991 to bs first
pupQs. be&an ia second year op
Sepfcmbfcr3 with 2 3t> children ah
ccffl^TWve new members have
*- Jaff The^Pre-Prep
ms

from Moqday. October 26 to
Eritfiy t Ortpber 30 andtosn will
&d.ooi^ Wednesday, December 16.
The Prep department wffl present
&- (%ristmas entertamman. 77ie
Miradet Squad, on Thmsday,
December .10 and the Nursery and
Re-Prep foeir Narirify Ptay on
Tuesday; ' December 15. The
Headmaster is available to show
prospective,. parents praund foe
achoai^anrMontlay and Tuesday'

yy yifrti r

Appointments

Mr (Kristopher HoSand, QC
and Mr Stt^foehSedBity. QC to be
.Justices of foe High Court in foe
Queen’s Bern* Division.

Marriages

SirCeeBCSoduer

and Mrs IXP. Stevenson

Sir Cedi Clothier, KCB, QC and

Mis ! Diana Stevenson (nfe

Dunant) .were married quietly in

London on August 7.

Mr D.L. Francis
and Ms H.MJL fifadUmrn
The marria ge took place on
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East Sussex, between David Louis
Francis, fonneriy of Richmond,
Surrey, and HflCne Margaret
Rose Blackburn (nte McLoughlin}
of Stockport. Cheshire. The bride
and groom were attended by foeir
five childr en.

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THE TIMES TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1992

15

Obituaries

QUENTIN

Quentin Northrop
Burdick, the Second-oldest
United States senator
died in Fargo. North
Dakota, on Septembers
aged 84. He was born in
Munich. North Dakota,
on Jane 19. 1908.

I F THERE was one thing that
Quentin Burdick did better
than anything else, and better
than almost anyone else in
Congress, it was the funnel-
ling of federal money towards
his home state. In his 32 yeare
as a senator for North Dakota
he acquired a reputation
among his colleagues for his
unabashed pursuit of so-called
“pork barrel” projects: federal-
ly-funded endeavours which,
fcy definition, had more to do
with providing jobs and prof-
its back home than with
serving the interests of the
American taxpayer. .

His critics called him “the
King of Pork”. Burdick never
minded the appellation. “I'll
get everything North Dakota

is entitled to,” he once said,
“nerw.”

Occasionally, however, Bur-
dick over-reached himself;
most notably in the case of the
Lawrence Welk Museum, for
which he persuaded Congress
to fork out several million
dollars in 1 990. In a time of
recession and soaring deficits.

BURDICK

the construction of a museum
at public expense to mark the
birthplace of a popular band-
leader struck many people as a
glaring example of the ex-
cesses of pork-barrel politics.
Congress hurriedly withdrew
the appropriation last year.

The son of a lawyer who
served for ten toms as a
Republican in the House of
Representatives, Burdick
gained his own law degree
Bom the University of Minne-
sota. He joined his father’s
firm, and spent the Depres-
sion years advising farmers
threatened with foreclosure.
The experience gained him
wide recognition in North
Dakota, and formed the basis
for his political career. That
career, however, was slow .in
starting. Burdick lost five elec-
tions as a Republican, and one
more after he switched parties
to become a Democrat. It was
not until 1 959 that he became
the first Democrat ever to be
sent to Congress by North
Dakota.

In the House of Representa-
tives. Burdick quickly built up
a voting record rated highly by
trade unions and liberal action
groups, and capitalised on it
in 1 960 to win one of the two
North Dakota senate seats in a
by-dection. He never lost it
His continuing popularity
with the voters, however, was
probably due more to the
dollars he pushed in their
direction than any great dis-
tinction in his political career.

Unusually for a senator with
his length of service — only
Strom Thurmond of North
Carolina and Robert Byrd of
West Virginia have longer
records— he did not achieve a
committee chairmanship until
1986. Then, finding himself
named chairman of the Envi-
ronment and Works Commit-
tee. he delegated most of the
work and much of his author-
ity to others.

Quentin Burdick was wid-
owed in 1958. He is survived
by his second wife, Jocelyn,
and by six children-

PROFESSOR JOHN SUTTON

John Sutton, FRS,
geologist, died in

Weymouth on September
6 aged 73. He was born
on July S. 1919.

JOHN Sutton was among the
leading geologists of his gen-
eration- To be one of his
students was like living on the
slopes of a volcano. The soil
was fertile, the view awe-
inspiring, but one knew that
long periods of productive
calm could suddenly be punc-
tuated by an eruption.

John Sutton was the eldest
child of G. J. Sutton, of
Sutton’s Seeds, the horticul-
tural company. He .went to
King’s School Worcester, and
from thence to study geology
in the Royal College of Sci-
ence, Imperial College of Sci-
ence and Technology.
London. His academic career
was interrupted by six years
military service with the
RACC and REME before he
returned to Imperial College
in 1946. where he was to
spend the rest of his career. He
joined a group of research
students under the late Profes-
sor H. H. Read who used
meticulous geological field
mapping to unravel the com-
plex folded and thrust history
of the Precambrian rocks of
the Scottish Highlands. In
1949 he married another
student in this group, Janet
Watson, also to become a
professor and fellow of the
Royal Society. Over the next
25 years until Janet Watson’s
death she and John Sutton
made a formidable team in
British and international geo-
logical aides. They woiked on
the Precambrian geology not
only of the Scottish High-
lands. but of the whole globe.
They exemplified the dictum
of Sir Henry De La Beche that
to be a good geologist all you
needed was common sense,
good eyesight and a stout pair
of legs. At an international
geological congress in Spain
the subsequent field trip in-

volved crossing a raging tor-
rent. While the rest of the party
sat down to remove their boots
and socks and roll up their
trousers, Sutton and Watson
joined hands and walked
straight through the river,
maintaining the finest tradi-
tions of Scottish Highland
geology and of the Imperial
College geology department
After completing his PhD
John Sutton was appointed
lecturer in 1948. reader in
1956 and professor in 1958.
During these years he honed

his ability to use observations
from small outcrops of rock to
interpret the vast contortions
of the earth's crust in time and
space.

In 1 964 he became head of
department a post that he
held for ten years. This was an
exciting decade. In those days
university heads of depart-
ments were not just underpaid
accountants. They were still
teachers and researchers with
time to profess their subjects.
John Sutton vigorously presid-
ed over a major expansion of

the geology department until
it was one of the largest in
Europe.

Although he was veiy much
a pure academic, Sutton was
always alert to new applica-
tions of geology. He foresaw
the contribution that geology
would make to interpreting
satellite imagery, establishing
the Imperial College centre for
remote sensing. He appreciat-
ed the interplay between geol-
ogy and the environment
founding the Imperial College
centre for environmental tech-
nology in 1977. With the
advent of North Sea oQ. John
Sutton saw the ofl technology
group of the college expand
and divide into geology and
engineering sections: •

John- Sutton served as dean
of the Royal School of Mines,
1965-68 and 1974-77. He
was pro-rector of Imperial
College from 1 979-1 9S3. He
was elected fellow of the Royal
Society in 1 966 and was vice-
president from 1975-77. He
travelled extensively in the role
of geological diplomat, and
was particularly successful in
establishing contacts with Chi-
nese geologists. Unlike many
professional scientists, he was
very supportive of enthusiastic
amateurs. Thus he served the
Geologists' Association in
many capacities, including
that of president The Geologi-
cal Society of London awarded
him the Bigsby Medal, jointly
with Janet Watson, in 1 965,
and the Murchison Medal in
1975. Following the death of
Janet Watson he married Bet-
ty Middleton-Sandford, the
designer.

When he retired those who
did not know him well expect-
ed that he would move to the
highlands of Scotland. Horti-
culture was in his blood,
however, and gardening a life
tong passion. He retired to the
soft rolling cretaceous downs
of Dorset, there to recreate
lovingly a manor house
garden. He has no surviving
children.

HENRY EPHRON

Astaire and Leslie Caron in Daddy Long Legs

NATHAN COOK

Henry Ephron,
Hollywood screenwriter
and producer, died at the
Motion Picture Hospital
In Los Angeles on
September 6 aged SO- He'
was born in New York.
City on May 26.1912.

SCREEN-WRITING was' a
family afiair for Henry
Ephron. Over three decades
all his work was done in
collaboration with his wife.
Phoebe. After her premature
death in 1 97 1 at the age of 57
his career came to a virtual foil
stop.

The couple met while they
were both working as counsd-
lors at a summer camp for
schoolchildren, shortly after
Ephron graduated from Cor-
nell University. They married
a few weeks later. At the time
Ephron was working as a
stage manager in a Broadway
theatre, writing in his spare
time. At first. Phoebe confined
herself to making suggestions
on her husband’s work in
progress, but she soon became
a full writing partner and gave
up the role of housewife. “I
don’t go in the kitchen very
often nowadays," she once
told a reporter, “except for ice-
cubes for a drink."

The Ephrons' first success
came in 1943 with the Broad-
way production of Three's a
Famitv . They broke into Hol-
lywood with the script of Bride
By Mistake in 1944, and

moved west to Los Angeles.
These were the Hollywood
years of glamorous and whole-
some looking stars delivering
scripts that would never offend
a maiden aunt. The Ephrons'

optimistic, “feel good" style
fitted the mood exactly. Over
the next decade they wrote the
screenplays for more than a
dozen movies whose titles
regularly reflected their con-

tent They ranged- from Al-
ways Together to John Loves
Maty, Look for the Silver
Lining, On the Riviera. Belles
on Their Toes and There’s No
Business Like Show Business.

In 1956.- after scripting
Daddy Long Legs for Fred
Astaire, Henry Ephron moved
into the production side of the
business with Carousel, for
which he and Phoebe also
wrote the screenplay. They
followed this success in 1957
with The Desk Set, starring
Spencer Tracy and Katharine
Hepburn, which became their
best-known film, and A Cer-
tain Smile, based on the
Sagan novel, in 1958. The
couple had another Broadway
triumph in 1961 with Take
Her, She’s Mine, though they
did not write the screen adap-
tation of the play. Their last
major film project was in
1 964, when they received an
Oscar nomination for their
work on Captain Newman ,
AID, with Gregory Peck and
Tony Curtis.

After his wife’s death Henry
Ephron published a memoir
entitled We Thought We
Could Do Anything, chroni-
cling their life together in
Hollywood. It was, wrote Mel
Gussow in 77ie New York
Times, ” as much a love story as
a memoir”.

Henry Ephron is survived
by four daughters, one of
whom is the writer Nora
Ephron.

. . Nathan E. Cook, the
oldest known United
States war veteran and
last survivor of the
SpanisfarAmeriean War
era, has died aged 106.

NATHAN Cook had a tove of
action and satisfied it in
service that spanned Ameri-
ca's sea-going campaigns
around the world. No-one else
had the memories of this
century's naval life that Cook
did.

HejoinedtheNavyin 1901
as a cabin bey- He was 1 5 but
lied about his age to ago up
after spotting a recruiting
poster promising an opportu-
nity to “see the world.”

He saw action in the Philip-
pine Insurrection, begun by
Filipino insurgents unable to
gain recognition of their inde-
pendence from the United
States. Spain bad ceded the
Philippines after losing the
Spanish- American War of
1 898. The insurgency began
in 1 899 and was crushed by
May 1901.

During his 44-year career.
Cook also saw action in the
Boxer Rebellion in China,
clashes on the US-Mexican
border and in both world
wars. In the first world war
Cook commanded a subma-
rine chaser that sank two
German U-boats. He decided
to forgo retirement to fight in
tiie second world war. com-
manding a sea-going tug sta-

tioned at Port-au-Prince, Hai-
ti. and a submarine tender at
Panama.

Cook became a celebrity as
marking the . way, . fay his
service, that the. United States
developed in the 20th century.
In Washington, Edward J.
Darwinski, Veterans' Affairs
secretary, said: “The passing
of our nation’s oldest war
veteran is more than just an
historical footnote. Nathan
Cook's life spanned a period
in which America grew from a
nation just emerging on the
world scene, to become the
greatest power on Earth.”

The Veterans Affairs De-
partment said 392,000 men
and women served during the
1898-1902 period that in-
cluded the United States' war
with Spain. Cook was one of
62,000 surviving veterans of
the second world war with an
average age of 91.

■ When Cook turned 104,
President Bush sent him a
congratulatory letter and
guests watched a video presen-
tation of his life. Cook attribut-
ed his longevity to dean living,
although he once smoked
□gars. His daughter said he
did not drink alcohol, howev-
er, preferring to keep tea in his
flask.

His wife of 76 years. Eliza-
beth, died in 1982. They had
met in New York in 1901 and
married in 1 905.

Cook is survived by two
daughters and a son.

Anniversaries

BIRTHS: Francois, Due de la
Rochefoucauld, writer, Paris,
1613; John Campbell, 1st
Baron Campbell lord chan-
cellor 1 859-61. Cupar. Fife.
1779; James Fenimore Coo-
per. novelist. Burlington, New
Jersey, 17S9; Henry Sweet,
philologist. London, 1845;
William Howard Taft. 27th
president of the USA 1909-
13, Cincinnati. 1857; Agatha
Christie, novelist. Torquay.
1891.

DEATHS: Albrecht von Wal-
lenstein. soldier and states-
man. Herrmanie, Czechoslov-
akia. 1583: Sidney God-
olphin, 1 st Earl of Godolphin,
statesman, St Albans. 1712;
Isambard Kingdom Brunei
dvil engineer, London. 1 859;
John Speke, explorer. Neston
Park. Bath, 1864: Thomas
Wolfe, novelist, Baltimore,
Maryland. 193S; Anton von
Webern, composer. Mineral!.
Austria. 1945: Wilhelm Mes-
serschmitt. aircraft designer.

r fatal railway accident
i when William Hus-
MP. was killed at the
c of the Liverpopl-
:ster line. IS 30. The
pl ag ue in England
ct). at its height in the
iding this day. 3.183
in London, 1849.
irst used in action by
jn tire Somme. 1916.
[ Britain Day.

Mite proves match
for Highland midge

By Kerry Gfll

ONE of the greatest scourges
of everyday life in the Scottish
Highlands, the small but
bloodthirsty midge, may have
met its match in the form of an
even tinier red mite.

Few visitors to the region
will have escaped the atten-
tions of the midge, a member
of the Cemtopogonidae fam-
ily, which thrives in the humid
months of the late summer
and can drive grown men to
paroxysms of scratching as it
sinks its piercing mouthparts
into their flesh.

Once the midge has gorged
on blood it will retreat to the
warmth of a peat bog. But
within the bogs of the west
Highlands lies a relatively new
predator, a red mite. The
mites, according to research
carried out on the isle of Skye,
are as voracious as the midges.
They sink their mouthparts
into the soft abdomen of the
midges to get at the blood.
Once the midges have been
sucked dry they perish.

The cut and thrust at the
bottom of tire food chain
might only be of academic
interest but for the fact that
people on Skye and the West-
ern Isles have noticed a small

but welcome drop in the
swarms of midges this year.
-' Professor Angus Stuart, who
has conducted research into
tire midge’s life cyde. said that
midges could be found with as
many as four red mites ding-
ing to their host He said that
up to 2 per cent of Skye’s
midges may have succumbed
to the mites, first identified in
Scotland several years ago.

The mites may have suc-
ceeded where other attempts
at eradication have failed. It is
undear where they have come
from. Samples were sent to the
Natural History Museum
which, in turn, dispatched the
mites to central Africa where a
French expert - recognised
them. A museum spokesman
said they were enthusiastic
about the practical effects of
the mites. It is breeding para-
sites that attack mosquitoes as
part of reseaidi into the eradi-
cation of malaria.

Dr George Hendry, author
of Midges in Scotland, be-
lieves tiie days of midge
swarms could be numbered
although, somewhat perverse-
ly, he sees the midge as a
protector of the unspoiled
beauty of the region.

University news

London

QUEEN MARY AND
WESTFIELD COLLEGE

Conferment of title of professor
and appointments to chairs
Mr M.R.B. Clarke (Senior Lec-
turer in Computer Science. Profes-
sor of Computer Science Dr J-A-
Edgington (Reader in Experi-
mental PhysicS). Professor of Phys-
ics; Mr H.S.E. Graveile (Reader m
Economics). Professor of Econom-
ics: Dr PJ. Hennessy (author,
journalist and broadcasted. Chair
of Contemporary History: Profes-
sor RJ. Penny (Professor of Span-
ish). Chair of Romance Philology;
Dr M. Hobson Jeannera (Univer-
sity Lecturer in French and Fellow
of Trinity College, Cambridge).
Chair of French: Dr J.P.W. Stark
(British Aerospace). Chair of Aero-
nautical Engineering: Dr A.G.
HMrew (Reader in Biological
Sciences). Professor of Ecology.

Conferment of tide of reader

Dr J-A. CJaike. Reader Jn Micro-
scopical Anatomy; Dr S. Bull err, reader
in Mathematics; Dr s. Han. Reader In
Hispanic Studies; Dr H. mck Blake.
Reader in Medieval Archaeology. Dr R.
whiiehouse, Reader in Archaeology.

Promotion id senior lecturer
Dr C.P.G. Reid. English: Dr AJ.
crazier. History: Dr K.E. Smith.
Biochemistry. Dr R.C. Ralchura.
Mechanical Engineering; Mr GJL
Butterfield. Geography: Dr R. Hall
Geography.

Other appointments and elections
Professor Ken Young. Vice-Principal;
Professor A.D- Ohier, Dean of the
Faculty oi Engineering; Professor J-K-
White. Chairman of the school of
Engineering; Professor P.l.P. Kalmus,
Head of the Department of Physics; Dr
P.E. Ogden, head of the Department of
Geography: Dr Raymond Kuhn. Head
of the Department of Political studies
Professor Brian Napier. Director of the
centre for Commercial Law Shuttles.

Finest pipers stand
out from the pack

By Angus Nicol, piping correspondent

WITH all the senior competi-
tions comfortably under one
roof in the Eden Court The-
atre in Inverness, bad weather
was no threat to pipers com-
peting at the Northern Meet-
ing. Their chief anxiety was
the difference in temperature
between the centrally heated
tuning room and the cooler
auditorium.

The first competition was
for tiie Highland Society of
London's Gold MedaL For an
event of this calibre the perfor-
mances were on the whole
disappointing, the five prize-
winners standing out from the
rest. The winner of tiie Gold
Medal Angus MacColl
played Togail nam B6 (The
MacFarianes’ Gathering).
This is a slight tune in com-
parison with others played in
this event but MacColJ's very
finished performance made
him a worthy winner. Pipe
Major Alasdair Gillies took
second place.

There was a generally good
standard of playing in the
Silver Medal competition. But
when 26 pipers each have to
submit four tunes out of a list
of six, two of which are not
universally popular, a degree

of repetition results. The
medal was won fry William
Morrison, who played the
least known of the tunes.
Dastirum gu Seinnim Piob (/
am proud to play a pipe).

The march competitors oc-
cupied the rest of the first day.
In grade A, the first prize was
taken by Midi ad Cusack. The
grade B event was won by
Douglas Campbell.

In the evening the march.
Strathspey and red competi-
tion for former winners took
place. The winner, after a
splendid performance, was
Pipe Major Alasdair GDlies.

Full results

Highland Society of London's Gold
MedaL and Seaforth Pitcher, and
Donnie Manson Trophy: Angus
MacColl: 2 P/M Alasdair Gillies; 3
Chris Terry: 4 Eric Rlgler. 5 John Don
MacKenzle.

Sliver MedaL and 5 1st Highland
Volunteers’ Cup: William Morrison; 2
smut Liddell: 3 Donald MacPbee; 4
lainSpeirs,

March a. Addison wauson Cap:
Michael Cusack: 2 lain Hum; 3 Angus
MacColl; 4 Ronald MacShannon.
March a. Mrs MacDonald of
Craigniche Trophy: DOvglftS
Campbell; 2 Stuart Uddell; 3 Alastalr
Fletcher; 4 John Don MacKenzle.
March. Strathspey and ReeL Royal
Scottish pipes’ Society's silver star.
MacBrayne Challenge Cup: P/M
Alasdair Gillies: 2 Angus MaoCDU: 3
william Morrison: 4 william
MacCallutn.

MAJOR-GENERAL
C. M. F. DEAKIN

Major-General G M. F.

Deakin.CB.CBE,

Commandant of die Joint

Services Staff College.

Latimer, from 1962 to

1965, died on September

8 aged 8 1 . He was born

on December 20. 191 0.

THE lode-stars of “Peter*
Deakin’s life were his regi-
ment, the Grenadier Guards;
sailing, latterly as a member of
the Royal Yacht Squadron
and the Household Brigade
Yacht Gub; and his family —
he was married for 50 happy
years. Smallish fry Guards'
standards, he will be remem-
bered for his attractive sense of
humour, nimble mind and
ready wit An amusing racon-
teur. he could always say the
right thing at the appropriate
moment with an instinctive
lightness of touch.

He had a distressingly sad
Stan in life. His mother died
giving birth to him. and his
father. William R. DeaJdn.
rejected him as the cause of his
wife's death. He was brought
up fry his unde and aunL
Christened Cedi Martin
FothergilL he was nick-named
“Peter” after meeting Beatrix
Potter in the Lake District,
who saw he was wearing a
blue jacket very like Peter
Rabbit's. His unde sent him to
Winchester College and Sand-
hurst, where he narrowly
missed winning the Sword of
Honour.

Commissioned into the
Grenadier Guards in 1931.
he was posted initially to the
3rd Battalion, but was trans-
ferred to the 2nd Battalion
when it was sent out to Egypt
during the Abyssinian crisis of
1936-37. In 1938 he was
seconded to the Honourable
Artillery Company, an officer-
producing unit in the Territo-
rial Army, as its chief
instructor. For the first three
years of the war he was on the
general staff of the 66th
Infantry. 42nd Armoured and
1 1th Armoured Divisions in
England. He did not see active
service until the invasion of
Normandy in 1944, when be
was second-in-command of
tiie 4th Battalion, equipped
with Churchill tanks as part of
the 6th Guards Tank Brigade,
with whom he fought
throughout the North-West
European Campaign.

After the war. he was lucky
enough to command both the
2nd Battalion in Germany for
a short time in 1946; and,
after a spell as GSOl of the
2nd Division, the 1st Battal-
ion, which he took out to
Palestine and then Tripoli
(1947-50). Three years later
he was commanding the 32nd
Guards Brigade in the Suez

Canal Zone during the diffi-
cult last years (1953-55) of the
British withdrawal from
EgypL He was soon back off
Port Said, commanding ihe
29th Infantry Brigade during
abortive Suez landincs in
1956.

Besides his panache as a
commander, he was a think-
ing soldier and avid reader, it
was appropriate that he
should be drawn into military
policy-making in Whitehall.
He became Brigadier General
Staff and then Director of
Military Training in the War
Office, 1957-59; and after a
year commanding 5bth
London Division (TA) he was
made Director of theTerriiori-
al Army. Cadets and Home
Guard. 1960-62. His final
appointment in the Army was
Commandant of the Joint
Services Staff College at Lati-
mer where he was an out-
standing success, his deft
approach and ready wit soft-
ening endemic rivalries, and
helping to bring the staffs of
the three Services closer
together.

Soon after he retired in
1 965. he took up the presiden-
cy of the large Grenadier
Guards Association with
branches all over the country.
He will be remembered fry
Grenadier old comrades for

his dynamic leadership dur-
ing tiie 15 years of his presi-
dency, arid dining bis
subsequent years as vice-pa-
tron. the Queen being patron.

He had a brief spell on the
staff of Atlantic College, but
his main preoccupation in
, retirement was as a director of
the Mental Health Founda-
tion, which he served until
1990.

In 1934 he married Evelyn,
daughter of Sir Arthur Grant
of Monymusk. Aberdeen-
shire. They had a son and a
daughter. Evelyn died in
1 984 just before their golden
wedding anniversary. His two
children survive him.

Kira Chung-yul

KIM Chung-yul, a former
prime minister and a found-
ing member of the South
Korean Air Force, has died
aged 75 in a Seoul hospital

Kim served as prime minis-
ter from July 1987 through
February 1988 under former
President Chun Doo-hwan.
He served twice as the air force
chief of staff and was defence
minister in 1957.

sept is ON THIS DAY

By the age of 15, Prince
George, larer King George V,
had faced both danger and
death on several long vqyages
while serving in the corvette
Bacchante. Of 4 /XX) tons,
fully-rigged but with auxiliary
engines, she was not regarded
try everyone as the most
seaworthy of vessels. The prince
was riot pampered and a
shipmate later wrote warmly of
his bearing and behaviour in
spite of discomfort and food
that was often "exceedingly
nasty”.

THE ROYAL
MIDSHIPMEN

Prince Albert Victor and Prince
George of Wales left Spithead
yesterday' afternoon on what
promises to be an eventful cruise
round die world on board the
unarmoured corvette Bacchante.
Captain Lord Charles Scott
Since the return of the ship from
Holyhead, whither she went to
take part in the ceremony attend-
ing the opening of the dock there
by the Prince of Wales, she has
undergone a refit by the dock-
yard authorities at Portsmouth.
A few defects in her machinery
which prevented her stopping
and starting as promptly as was
desirable have been remedied,
and the gun which was removed
from under her forecastle pre-
vious to her sailing for die West
Indies has been replaced on
board, the difference in weight
having been adjusted by reliev-
ing her of about 16 tons of iron
ba&asL In this instance tbe cruise
was commenced under as
disagreeable auspices as regards
the weather as are likely to be
expereinoed during tiie whole
voyage

The morning broke wet and
stormy, the wind blowing almost
a gale from the south, and as it
seemed highly improbable that
the Bacchante would move from
her anchorage until the weather
moderated ft was thought that
tbe Prince of wales, who had

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signified his intendon of esoon-
ing the corvette for some distance
down Channel in the Osborne,
Commander Lord Charles
Beresford. would defer his visit.
As neither the naval authorities,
howewr, nor the local railway
officials bad received intimation
of any change af arrangements,
the preparations for the recep-
tion of his Royal Highness
proceeded. The Osborne, which
was under the charge of Mr.
Harding, the senior pilot, and
asistant Queen’s harbourmaster,
came down from its moorings,
and drew up alongside the South
railway jetty shortly after 12; and
it soon became known that the
Royal train was dose at hand.
The special train containing the
Prince of Woles, Princes Albert
Viaor and George of Wales left
the Victoria Station of the
London. Brighton, and South
Coast Railway at 25 minutes
past 1 0. Although the train had
to contend against a strong head
wind nearly all the way. it arrived
in the dockyard at 25 minutes to

]. or only five minutes after the
time fixed.

There were waiting on the jetty
to receive the Princes Admiral
Ryder. Commander-in-Chief.
and his flag captain. Captain
Seymour Rear Admiral Foley.
Colonel Smythe. commanding
Royal Artillery and Colonel
Bray. Assistant Adjutant-Gen-
eral. Up to the moment of the
Prince's arrival the rain had
continued to fall in torrents, and
a heavy sea was tossing in die
Solent. Just as tiie Royal train
drew up, however, the clouds
began to break up and disperse,
and the appearance of a bright
blue sky encouraged hopes
which were not justified by the
sony experiences of the
afternoon.

As tire Prince and the young
Princes stepped on board the
Osborne, the ships in die har-
bour broke out with masthead
flags, and the Duke of Welling-
ton saluted the hoisting of the
Royal standard with 21 guns.
There being not much baggage
to unship, the yacht drew away
from the jetty at 1 1 minutes to 1,
proceeded to Spithead, and
stood off for tire Bacchante.

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Continued from page I
quashed the Maguire convic-
tions last year, accepting the
possibility there had been in-
nocent contamination after a
report by Sir John had been
sent to the home secretaiy.

Last autumn, scientists
horn the Royal Armament
Research and Development
Establishment, which did the
original trial work, said that
new evidence was flawed. The
scientific committee was set
up under Professor Thomas
West, an analytical chemist,
to take a fresh look.

David Clarke, QC. counsel
to the enquiiy, reporting on
the committee’s finding s yes-
terday. said the six scientists
included those who thought
contamination likely or very
likely and those who took a
more negative view. Howev-
er, even the most sceptical
members could not absolutely
exdude contamination.

Even after the committee's
report was completed in Au-
gust, two scientists represent-
ing the Maguires did their ,
own tests to show that con- I
tamination could have been
caused by contaminated |
etherin a government labors- |
toiy or a police store. Yester-
day other members of the
committee countered with
new evidence to s the enquiiy.
Scientists for thi* laboratory
said the uew/trozk' was. noth-
ing more than in fltosfrttion
of the hypothetical possibili-
ties which the committee
could not exdride.. -
Mr Claike told Sir John
May that nothing had
emerged to undo Sir John’s
interim report on the case.
Mr Clarke told Sir John that
it was unlikely that any con-
clusions could be drawn on
the likelihood of contamina-
tion “which will take this de-
bate much former and you
may feel that you can do no
more than to receive and take
note of tire opposing views".

He said die work for the
enquiiy was now shown to be
flawed and inconclusive.
Tests may have been influ-
enced by cross-contamina-
tion between swabs for the
hands and fingernail sam-
ples. There could also have
been contamination in the
original tests on the Maguire
group because of foe instruc-
tions given to the police an
how swabs were placed over
the hands and fingers. Tests
now showed the traces could
only have bees of
nitroglycerine.

After the hearing Mrs
Maguire said: "We know foe
Maguire Seven are innocent
At foe end of foe day our
consciences are dear.”

Conference sketch

in the water

Fighting spirit: President Bush and Ronald Rehgan
is expected to portiayliis chaflenger Bffl ai

Bundesbank rate cut raises
few hopes in the riiarkeis

is next in the

firing line

Continued from page I
saying that people had had
exaggerated expectations of
foe likely size of the reduction.
It was the first time that foe
Germans had lowered foe
cost of borrowing for five
years and foe direction of
German rates was now “firm-
ly downwards”, it said.
‘There has been a significant
change of mood. We are now
talking about reductions in
rates throughout Europe," an
aide said.

At foe official Bank of Eng-
land dose in London, foe
pound was up 2.S pfennigs
against foe German mark at
DM2.8131 and 4.05 cents
down against foe dollar at
$1.8937. In lunchtime New
York trading, the pound
stood at DM2.8127 and
$1.8915. The dollar rate
against the German mark
rose to DM1.4871 in New
York from an opening
DM1.4435 in London.

The FT-SE 100 Index
dosed up 51.2 points at
2422.1, despite anxieties over
foe French vote on Maas-
tricht New York shares also
rose strongly, in line with the
rising dollar.

Jacques Defers, the Euro-
pean Commission president.

in an emotional appeal to
French voters, said foot foe
events of the past two weeks
had shown that a united
Europe could work. "Please
don’t break that up, because
it’s fragile,” he said.

M Defers welcomed the
“gesture" from the Bundes-
bank. but refused to say
whether he believed that the
bank would have to cut rates
further to arrest foe Euro-
pean recession. He called on
Germany’s EC partners to
recognise foe new European
spirit of the Bundesbank, and
to help Bonn to overcome its
burgeoning refugee crisis.

He did his best to scotch
the theory that the Bund-
esbank had moved reluctant-
ly. “I don’t believe the
Bundesbank gave in. It stride
to its rules and statutes.”

He said that the ECs cur-
rent problems showed that,
with its present currency
hotchpotch, Europe could not
take the lead from America in
steering the world out of re-
cession. He said that EMU
would help foe Community to
“play the rale people expect of
it in the world".

The French government,
which had hinted on Sunday
night that ir might Mow foe

Bundesbank with its own
monetary easing; appeared to
draw bade after seeing the
market reaction to foe Ger"
man move. The finance min-
istry said that any reduction
in French interest rates would
now depend on a “yes” vote in
Sunday’s referendum.

In Italy and Germany,
there were widespread criti-
cisms of foe weekend’s finan-
cial package. ' The
Association of German
Chambers of Commerce at-
tacked the fact that news of.
the cut had been announced
by the Community, not by
German officials.

Hans-Peter Stihl, president
of the German Chamber of
Industry and Trade, said that
the organisation would be
watcfamgdasdy how the cen-
tral bank mam tamed its inde-
pendence. He- said that he
saw no reason fertile bank to
ease its policies, in view of
continuing inflationary pres-
sure in Germany.

Fall analysis, pages 2-3
Peter Riddctt
and Diary, page 12
Leading article page 13
Breathing space, page 17
Stock markets, page 20
Italy's impotence, page 21

Continued from page I
could fall apart as early as
next Sunday, when renewed
pressure on the lira and
pound win necessitate a sec-
mid realignment If France
votes “yes”, foe present pari-
ties wifi survive for awhile but
the ERM will no longer be
seen as a system of perma-
nently fixed exchange-rates.

For Britain, this change in
perception could have pro-
found economic and politrial
implications. Mr Mtgor will
have to find a new mirade
cure for the country's .eco-
nomic problems. The link
with the mark has lost its
tong-teim credibility.

ERM membership can no
longer guarantee stability
and low inflation, if devalua-
tions and realignments are
once again part of the ERM’s
stock in trade. Of course, the
Treasury will continue to
daim, as 'it said yesterday,
that the prohabflfy of any
realignment involving Brit-
ain is “rercT. Bui ti» markets
will recall foal all 12 Euro-
pean finance mininsters,
chaired by Noonan Lament,
said precisely the same tiling
about an Italian realignment
only ten days ago.

Finally, Sunday’s events
have probably transformed

the prospects for European
monetary union. A fultacale
monetary union could still
follow a “yes" vote but the
{dans for EMU in the Maas-
tricht Treaty may have to be
dramatically amended. On
one. hand, the progress to-
wards EMU will have to be
even faster than Maastricht's
five-year timetable if whole
project is not to be blown off
course. On the other, the in-
dependent and democratical-

• ■

Yll 1 bbrioousT’ cried Robert
exdt- '

^xgbyldafoily^refcrencc to
^M^tfek^Sandia and the
£teilitoids,. > and voice all a-

■ , ?lie . said it again,
exms”- He moved
astthe lib Dems to
«■ Futi spokesman
arifoBritainwhO
fbffldrfpt/stoop to a Meflor
? Ipggr if Mould do Mr Mao
Mpe no end of good to
Jiawriilstoes sucked, if nec-
by force.* one toe
ttle-picgy-went-to-
^tyle) tor each of the
? fetftetienrin lubricious:

Harrogate, dis-
? befief stalks the co nfer e n ce
.-Centre. At Brighton in three
- weeks it wiB stalk the pzom-
renade. At Harrogate, Lib-
^eril Dcnooxts snake their
breads in disbelief that they
did not win. At Brighton.
Tories will shake their
■•heads in disbelief that they
,tiid. liberals know that
-they are a band of saints
and are amazed that the
country does not see it To-
ries know they are a cart-
load of monkeys and are
amazed that' the country
has not found them out
Thus failure bruises a
liberal but does not crush
him. At Harrogate several
thousand indestructibles
are picking themselves up
and vowing to carry _on.
Maybe next, time? Of
course Paddy promised it
last time, bat is greeted
now as parents greet a little
boy who said he was run-
away to America, and

and discover some con-
struction workers bat by
some ghastly mischance
(Heaven knows bow this
happened!) a press release
got out beforehand. It is

cameramen following yon
round but Paddy tried.
Wearing a white hornet (be
loves helmets) Paddy nar-
rowed his eyes to those fa-
miliar statesmanlike slits
and peered, rapt, at a tamp
of reinforced concrete.
Nearby, scone other ordi-
nary people dis cu ss e d with
me this phenomenon. They
were navvies ...

“Who’s ’ee when 'ee’s at
’ome then?"

“Wunerthem SDPs,
inner?”

“Bigbooger, inee? Bigger
tfraw on TV like. woz-
eedooinneer?”

“Lookin’ fer votes, innee,
like all the r es te rth e m!"

S id, isn’t it to find our
countrymen so cynical?
After a magnificently
ghnn n»u»gg pretence that
foe presence of journalists
was a matter of regret to
him, Mr Ashdown ceased
being ordinary and was
driven away in a big
Mercedes Benz. Seeing
what it is fike to be an
ordinary German business
tycoon.

For the rest at the week
Mr Ashdown will pretend
to be an ordinary politician
leading a normal party with
a real chance of winning

just like the other two. This

ly unaccountable European
Central Bank that was

was America — or
didn’t it quite work out?"
Fondly he is received bade
into the Liberal bosom.

Speaking of which,
minds turn to Nancy Seear.
who told us yesterday how
tiie pound might be sup-
ported. But now is Lady
Seear s

Central Bank that was
planned to be at the heart of
EMU is no longer plausible.

The model fertile ECB was
the Bundesbank but the Ger-
man bank’s dumsy handling
of German monetary policy,
followed by its humfliating
defeat yesterday, is likely to
European pofitudans
and electorates think again.

The weekend’s events
proved that there is no such
tinng as a politically indepefr-
'der^oentral bank. They also
more ’mr
portent.' A central bank that
was gerimririy independent
could never .be entrusted with
economic management in a
democratic state ?IF a truly
independent central bank did
exist, Europe woukffove to
d&nventiL ’

supported? With the
of Madame Arcati

voice of Madame Arcati
and the bearing of a galleon
in a heavy swell theoaron-
ess retains her poise when
afl we know about centres
of gravity insists that she
should fall forward on to
her fribe. Yesterday, rocked
by the force of her own ar-
gumentrduring a powerful
passage about protection-
ism. she let no offoe lectcm
and stepped back. Gripped
by art internal panic, I
dropped my notebook,
Paddy, meanwhile, has a
new venture. He is going to
try being ordinary m differ-
ent locations all over Brit-
ain, to see how it feds- He
fe to discover the people.

. Yesterday morning he de-
rided to be ordinary in a
building site for 20 minutes

ers to the limit.

He was not the only star,
yesterday. It is uncommon
for the earth to move aftera
lib Dem debate: a solid
speech on economics from
shadow chancellor Alan
Beifo caused not so much
as a tremor in the value of
die Albanian lek. But then,
aD of a sudden, something
happened. David Alton MP
resigned. Well not write.
Mr Alton said he would re-
sign. at the next election, in
protest against the pro-
abortion stance his party
adopted yesterday.

' Alton, a convinced Catho-
lic, is truly brave and genu-
inely devout but in recent
years something in his pale,
distraught demeanour and
the upward cast of his eyes
has suggested a yearning
toward martyrdom. We see
him, perhaps, in stained
glass, face heavenward as
ne is torn limb from limb by
militant abortionists. Yes-
terday the nightmare came
a little closer to reality.

Matthew Parris

THE TIMES CROSSWORD NO 19,024

England and Wales will be

■ h i ■■■ — — rather doudy, with rain or

drizzle near western coasts. Eastern and central En gl and will hav**
a few bright or sunny intervals and will feel warm. Northern
Ireland and Scotland will be mostly doudy a nil breezy with
occasional rain, mainly in the west Outlook: rain over central and
northern parts will spread southeast, followed by sunny intervals-

Mgtars

AnWOn

ACROSS

1 Kind of sheep that provided
expensive meal for hunter (5)_

4 Trip and block in children's
game (9).

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heartedly as source of stimulation
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j n an extract from his new book, Neil Lyndon
^attacks the ‘myth’ about domestic violence

Who gives a
damn about the
battered man?

V iolence is second nature to
man. The assumption un-
derlines aQ feminine ar-
gument and is used, to
powerful effect to denigrate father-
hood and to sanctify the purity of
another love.

So completely has the public
absorbed the battered-woman im-
age that ft has become genuinely
difficult to set out the facts. For
instance, how many cases of do-
mestic violence are reported to the
police? The Metropolitan police
reckon that they respond to “about
25,000 calls a year, an extrapola-
tion for London as a whole drawn
from research in specific areas”.

Dr Susan S. M. Edwards has
studied the records of station mes-
sages received over six months at
two divisional police stations,
Hounslow and Holloway. From
this she asserts that “The number
of women who officially reported
violence to the police in the Metro-
politan police district alone in one
year was estimated at 58.000.”

How did she get that number? It
looks as if Dr Edwards has simply
taken the results of her research in
those two police divisions and
multiplied them by the number of
divisions in the Metropolitan police
district as a whole. If ] am right, the
extrapolation is worthless.

Think about it: are Hounslow
and Holloway to be equated with
Highgate. Finchley, Dulwich,
Greenwich and Chiswick? Even if
we assume that Dr Edwards has
got h right in Holloway and
Hounslow, it would be simply
preposterous if she had adduced
from those specific figures a general
picture of the incidence of domestic
violence in Greater London. She
would be making out that
diferences in income, employment,
housing, racial tension and family
structure make no difference to the
frequency with which men and
women living together get into
violent rows.

Doubtful as her research method
appears to have been, it has been
endorsed by official bodies includ-
ing the police. Quoting Dr Ed-
wards. the Police Monitoring and
Research Group declares that over
two years, London police stations
received between two and two-and-
a-half calls a day relating to
domestic incidents. This would
average out at more than 1.000
rails a week to the whole Metropoli-
tan police district.

Thus a suspect figure emerging
from an undisclosed statistical
method has been officially received.

We are about to receive another
doubling, another magnification
by 100 per cent In 1990, The
Independent published a column
of mine in which I questioned a
policy newly inaugurated by John
Patten, then minister of state at the
Home Office, promising to “crack
down" on violent men in the home.

1 suggested that the Home Office’s

figures had been bent to supply a
false picture of domestic violence.

My article drew an angry reply
from Sandra Horley. the director of
the Chiswick Family Refuge, who
asserted that “abuse of women is a
huge issue”. She said: “The Metro-
politan police receive approximate-
ly 100,000 calls a year from
women who are trying to escape
male violence.”

Ms Horley^ figure was subse-
quently taken up by Rosalind
Miles, another writer on fe minis m
Dr Miles has given it as a fad that
in the London area alone, more
than 100,000 women a year need
hospital treatment after violence in
the home. How can it possibly be
true? If the population of the
London area is. say, five million,
then 2.5 million are female. Of
those 2.5 million, about 750,000
will be in the age range 20 to 4 0. in
which violent domestic altercations
almost entirely occur. So, if
100.000 women a year require.

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failed?

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hospital treatment after violence in
the home, that means that one in
every seven- and-a-half women is so
badly hurt in domestic fights that
they require treatment in, at least,
the casualty outpatients’ wards.

Ask yourself: how many women
in all your life have you known to
require hospital treatment after a
domestic fight? I know of one. One.

In relationships over the past 25
years, I have four times been
involved in rows which ended in
blows. I have twice slapped a
woman’s face with my open hand.
On two of these occasions. 1 was the
one who got more badly hurt my
bleeding nose and lip ami the deep
scratches on my face were not
matched by any injuries 1 inflicted
in the fracas.

Drink was involved in at least
three of the four scenes, as were
hysteria, exhaustion and the kind
of despair which comes over you in
the middle of the night knowing

that you might be in for a lifetime of
misunderstanding and hostility.

Each of these unseemly and
shocking incidents could be called a
fight The women were, beyond
question, doing their utmost to hurt
me. 1 can say, with absolute
truthfulness, that I did not use
more than a fraction of my strength
or my power to injure: and, in two
of the four scenes, I was using my
strength to diminish injury. No
medical treatment was required for
any of the trivial injuries sustained
by either combatant

On each occasion, however, the
woman acted as if her violence did
not count as if the injuries and
pains she bad inflicted did not exist
I was made out to be the sole
aggressor.

I want to suggest that a broader
and more general picture of domes-
tic violence may be. drawn from
these accounts. Where rows be-
tween men and women lead to
fights, the violence is often two-way.
Drink is often to be found in the
picture. Injuries caused are very
often slight and accidental.

If you visit a hospital on a Friday
night you will see men as well as
women being brought in for treat-
ment following domestic fights.
The women may outnumber the
men by, say. three to one; but the
men's injuries tend to be more
gruesome. Women's injuries are
often the result of bare-handed
blows from their men. so their faces
and bodies get bruised, noses
broken, ribs cracked or internal
organs ruptured. Men’s injuries
commonly result from the use of
some weapon: they are stabbed,
slashed, scalded and whacked with
every domestic implement which
comes to hand, from the carving
knife to the cast-iron saucepan and
its boiling contents.

When Mr Patten launched his
crackdown against violent men at
home, he reminded the public that
44 per cent of all women who are
murdered are killed by their hus-
band or the man they are living
with. This sounds like an unspeak-
ably hideous fact if you give it onfy
glancing attention. But there is
another way of looking at it

H ow many females
would you guess are
murdered in a year?
The answer in 1987 is
147 (it was an average year)- For
women between the ages 1 6 to 40.
the figure — precisely 44 per cent of
die total — is 65.

Sixty- five women were murdered
by their husbands or lovers. Does
that number strike you as being so
alarming that it should call for “a
revolution in the way that police

deal with domestic violence", as Mr
Patten described his initiative?

If you run your eye over the
mortality statistics you will see that
216 females died in 1987 from
choking on their food. Three
hundred and five died from faffing
on the stairs. One hundred and
twenty-four died of “excessive cold".
If you keep on looking, you will see
that, in the same year. 1.435
women were killed in road traffic
accidents and 20,000 women died
from respiratory ailmenis connect-
ed with smoking.

Now i ask you: in the context of
those figures, do you feel that an
appropriate sense of judicious bal-
ance is being brought to bear on the
65 women who were murdered by
their men? If you answer “yes, most
certainly: their fate is the ghastly
proof that men brutalise women",
then you must answer a further
question: why does nobody give a
damn about the men who are

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murdered by their wives or lovers?

About nine per cent of all
murders of males in any year are
committed by their spouses. That
makes about 20 murders of men in
England and Wales. The number,
like the number of women mur-
dered, is reassuringly small: but if
you warn to say that the murder of
women by their men exemplifies
some kind of grand political
scheme, then you have to admit
that tile deaths of those men
complicate the picture.

The killer blow with which the
sisters and their followers try to
extinguish argument on domestic
violence is to say that every wom-
en’s refuge in this country is filled to
overflowing. So how many women
would you guess are bang housed
in refuges throughout the country
ai any one time? Thousands? Tens
of thousands?

1 got the answer from the
National Women's Aid Federation.
It says there are “approximately”

1.280 places of sanctuary for
women and their children in
England. Two-thirds of those

1 .280 might be children. Let's say
that half the number is made up of

children and the other half of the
women who are desperate to get
away from violent men. That would
leave 640 women.

How can It have happened that a
social phenomenon which results
in 640 women and their children
seeking refuge and care should
have commanded massive, highly
emotional and accusatory cover-
age? What the hell has happened to
us as a generation, a nation, a
people that the plight of 640
women should be treated with so
very much more sympathy and pol-

itical energy than, say, the million
or more people who have no home?

• No More Sex War by Neil Lyndon is
published on September 28 by Sinclair
Stevenson at £ 15.95 (£13.95 at the
feminism debate).

TOMORROW

The sceptical
feminist: Nigel] a
Lawson replies to
Neil Lyndon

Men do not always get their own way, as court decrees on custody show

Fathers targeted in the battle of the sexes

M ore than 25% of all live
births are to unmarried
women. An incalculable
number of those women will subse-
quently- many the fathers of the
children; but millions do not We
cannot guess how' many of the
women who choose not to many
are directly influenced by the
cardinal axioms of the sisterhood.
But it seems fair to imagine that a
loud and fashionable establish-
ment which declares that it is more
than all right for a girl to go it alone
must have some influence on the
attitudes of those women. Do they
ever stop to think what they are
doing to men?

Unmarried fathers have no un-
disputed rights of paternity. They
might not even register the birth of
their baby. The mother might, with
unchallengeable legal authority,
refuse the father any right to see or
to be with his child and remove the
children to another place, even to
another country, without his con-
sent. The IM01 Children Act is
inteniled to afford to unmarried
fathers the right to acquire parental
responsibility on the same terms as
married fathers; but we cannot, at
present, guess how it will work in

practice. ......

Nothing in tny adult life has
been more painful than to witness
the devastations in the lives oi some
of my young men friends from that
renunciation of formal contract m

their relationships with the women
who bore their children. Though
they bear a share of responsibility
for their circumstances, those men
have suffered an offence which
ought to be criminal. It ought not to
be allowable in law for any parent
married or not to remove a child
from another parent without con-
sent This is such an obvious
human right that it is astounding to
find that it has been unassorted and
unprotected, that unmarried men
have been simply powerless to resist
if the mother of their children takes

a fancy to remove them. Those men
have had. it goes without saying, no
such power themselves. Any man
who swipes his child and denies the
mother rights of access is likely to
find his mug on the front-pages of
the gutter rags. It should be so:
kidnapping children is a crime of
such terrible power that it should be
discouraged tty all means; but that
boot should be made to fit both feet
of a parental union, marital or not,
broken or intact
The elimination of the faiher has
always been an essential purpose of
the sisterhood. The assaults they
hare mounted upon marriage and
the “bourgeois" family may be seen
as strategic ploys, clothed in ideo-
logical humbug and mumbo-jum-
bo. which were intended to vitiate
men’s rights of paternity and to
transfer all parental rights to
women.

‘Men who wish to
have more time
with their babies
are given no
encouragement
no honour,
no power,
and no time’

According to the sententious
maxims of the feminists, the family
has been described as the prime
theatre of sex war. in which the
woman who conceives and bears
her baby to term has been
described as a class traitor, in which
the woman who marries the father
of her rhflti and thus confers some
legal rights of paiemity upon him
has been regarded as making an
alliance of servitude with the
oppressor.

lt should be counted among the
more signal inequities of our age
that men who wish to have more
time with their babies are given no
encouragement no honour, no
power and no time. All men are

confined by toe general presump-
tion and prejudice, fostered and
confirmed by a powerful strand of
modem feminism, that they are. at
best reluctant parents.

If you think that men automati-
cally get their own way in all
conditions and draunstances of
family and profesional life in our
society, you have to ask yourself
why it should be that they so
infrequently get whal they ask for
in the divorce courts of our land.

Look at those courts. See what the
law assigns to fathers who wish to
keep a dose connection with their
children to have an active share in
their care and upbringing. Those
men may, if they are ludty. be
granted what toe courts are pleased
to deem “substantial" access.

The granting of “substantial
access" may mean that the faiher
will be allowed to have his children
to stay with him for two Saturday
nights a month. He may be given
toe right to meet the children from
school one afternoon a week and
give them their supper. And he
may be allowed to have the children
stay with him for a week during
each of the Christmas and Easter
holidays and a fortnight in the
summer.

Those arrangements, deter-
mined by toe courts, give a picture
of our collective view of fathers and
their importance. Fathers’ rights
are nor merely secondary; they are

peripheral, marginal, decorative.
Men as fathers are held to be
emotional accessories to the main
business of chfld-care^ which is seen,
by feminists and judges alike, as
bong the essential concern of
womankind.

This cast of mind towards toe
divisions of child-care between
mothers and fathers cannot sur-
vive. It is not only inequitable: it is
also impractical impolitic and
damaging. In an age when women
are required to be at work in the
same numbers as men — which
must be counted an irreversible
change — it must rebound to the
professional disadvantage of
women if they arc expected to be
chiefly responsible for children;
and it must be counted an intoler-
able injustice that men arc not
allowed to be equally active part-
ners in parenthood.

The rights of men to leave from
work when a baby is bom may be
expected to be ratified in statute
soon. Britain remains one of the
only countries in toe devdoped
world where men still have no
rights of paternity leave: but it can’t
last The laws of toe EC will require
adjustments to be made in toe UK.
My own view is that rights of
parental leave must be absolutely
equal for men and women.

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LIFE & TIMES TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 5 1992

HAMLET: For ore mnifi orJ). Alan
Kidman jn.J a ipl^udid Ciil in The
Oinnh play Onrnurg nrjht
Riverside Studios. Crnp Road.
Hsn?o»rsmnh. lvec03I-7Jg 33SJ<.
opens tcfiiglii 7pm iMn Mof)-$at.

7 30pm

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: -Her
te fOp*.tf.«inging Llirfiu.-nm.?* Night i
OTpam toi UFT Iasi year, ihe Romanian
■ireOiia Aleyantfru bare apples his
u-weriuify lo arnmer ol Cihai ospeare's
pU|S This is a (c-prodiKIiMi «anl>
Ouord Stage Company and will lour
Ihe reoions unii Noy«cnbgf
Theatre Royal, Wesigaie SirreL Bury
Si Edmunds iCCS-J 7<5950S). hcmghl-jM.
7 JCipm. mat Sat --30pm
CONTRASTS: Pianist Andras 5d»K
diecu an ouBtarxfmg lineup of
vwMwind players m LurUg's Wind
Quinwi. Op- 2 and movements from
"laLt+o*: " for piano duet isdvfl and
Hem.- Hoiligeri. worts by Bach and
Beno. and p>e London premieres of
Carter's Inner song for sob oboe and
Qumai for piano and wnds More
Contrasts on Sept In and 19
Queen Elizabeth HaB. South Barit.
London SE 1 1071-92888001. 7.4Spm.
LADY BE GOOD: Open Air’s
production of the first Broadway musical
by -jwge and Ira Gershwin continues
its countrywide tour. Ioanna Hkfrng and
Simon Green emulaie the fascinatin'
rhythm of Fred and Adtie Astaire, for
whom if was wnnwi Bernard Crtbbns
b afso m the casL

Orchard Theatre, Home Gardens,
DartJcxd (0322 3433331. Tues-Sai
7.43pm. mats Wed. Sat 2 30pm.

WTTS END: Allhough famous m
fiusua. and analysed in depth by
Sunslavd'y. Griboedov's 1824 sabre
on high sopefy only now receives ns
British premiere

New End. 27 New End. London NW3
1071-794 00221. previews lomghc-
Thurs. 7 30pm; opens En. 7 30pm;
then Tues-Sun, 7.30pm, mat Sun.
3.30pm

TODAY'S EVENTS

A daily guide to arts
and entertainment
complied by Kari Knight

NASH ENSEMBLE: The ch-mber mu>;

i iioup plays music t»y Debussy Ox-ar?
or flute viola a'l-lhaip 1 . Mart-

4nfhonv TumacK- («s- Anuely for

soprano and ensemble. with Rosa
Manruoni Schoenberg and Stravinsky,
and Henri Duulleu< s Les Otaaons
receives its First London performance
Lionel friend conducts
Purcdl Room. South Bank. London
SE1 L07 1-928 88001. 8pm.

ACADEMY OF ST MAKT1N-1N-TME-
HELDS: Sir NeviHe Manner conducts
Smetana's overture The Bartered Bnde.
Dvorak's Celia Concerto (with Man
Haimowitzi and Tchaikovsky's
Symphony No 5.

Festival Hall. South Bank. London SE l
i071-9288800l. 730pm

ROMEO AND JUUET: The Scottish
BaBet offers its contribution to (his
year's plethora of Romeo and Juliet
ballets. The company is unique re Britain
in having m ns repertoire lohn
Cranl o's verson of Prokofiev's
Shakespeare tale; which was Test
created for Carta Fraca bad in 19S8
This revival by the Glasgow company
should prove one of the most popular
offerings on ns current tour
Playhouse Theatre. lSGreenside
Place. Gimbuigh '03 I-S57 25901
toreght-Sat 7 30pm. matslhurs. Sat
2.30 pm.

OLD MASTER DRAWINGS. The

Ashmolean has one of the greatest
coi lections of Old Master drawings m
the worid. Normally only a smaH
percentage is on show, but the
European Arts Festival has persuaded
the museum to bnng out some of its

nches. fins amanrgseteebon, tvs t

;een m Pom-? la*; year ind-udes fi.-e

MKheiangei'.is Ir.v Raphaels ana two
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Ashmolean Museum. 0>‘o<*1 .0665
2 78O00- Tuc-s-faj lUam-ipm. 5un. 2-
J pm. fg Oct 1 1

IN THE ROUND/OESIGNS ON
POSTERITY: The contemporary medal is
■3 much refected Put cnpc*Hy
neglected an- :orm Ihe Federation
Internationale de la Mfedaife. lounded
-n 1937, holds biennial eUiifiinons. and
this year's, the nretio be held in
Butam. brings together more than 1100
medals by 600 artists. Abo a Salon des
Refuses and a show of medab issued by
the British An Medal Society, now ten
years old. indutkng three unissued,
mathibited medab by Henry Moore
for the 900th anniversary of Clvchester

Cartiedralin 1975

British Museum. -Sreat Russell f'reer.
London WC1 1071-323 852 Si. Mon- Sal.
lflam-Spm. Sim. 2.30-Bpm. -mtil O-n
2S.

THE FALL: The aibum Code Se/feh
shows Mark E. Smith and hs mavencks
at their creative best No doubt they
will pun out aU the stops for the home-
town performance

The Rte BaQroam. Manchester (061-
2364355). 7pm.

SUEDE: The glam rodi darlings embark
on some warm-up gigs before an
extensive Uk tour where they will
defend tlwu Mefody Maker moniker of
bea new band In Britain.

100 Club. London W1 (071-636
09331. tonight. 7.30pm. University.
Manchester <061-275 2930).
tomorrow, 7.30pm
BHEKJ MSELBOJ: The I me South
African pianist and saxophone player,
whose Celebration was nonwwed for
the BiHfcb Mercury Album of the Year
J set Caffe. Parkway. London NW1
(071-284 4358). 9pm.

■ ANGELS IN AMERICA.- ThnBwg
performances in Tony K.ushner's
fascinating siate-cf-the-Union drama
on Aids, religion, potties, everything.
National (CottesJoe). South Bank.

SE) (07) -928 22521. Tonight
wmonow. 7 15pm. mat today.

I 3Qpm. ZlOrmm

□ DEATH AND THE MAIDEN: Ariel
Port man's scorching psychological
drama an the longng for revenge
Penny Down*. Danny Webb arid Hugh
Ross mai e up the cast

Duke of York's, St Martin s Lane.

WC2 (071-836 5122) Moo- Sat 4pm.
mats Thurs. 3pm. SaL 4pm I20rrens

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community where the supemaonl
presses m on ad sides. Joanne Pearce
superb as the girl possessed
The Pit Barbican. Silk Street EC2
(07 1 -638 SS9 1). Tomght tomonow.

7. 1 5pm. mat tomorrow. 2pm
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the top. set in the world of rock bands
and packed with Sixties some.
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WC2 (971-836 61 11) Mon-Thun.

8 1 5pm. Fn and Sat 5.30pm and
830pm 120mins,

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Sat. 4pm. lOOmins.

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sugar. Berlin in the Twenties
Sentimental. American, entertaining.
Dominion. Tottenham Court Road.

W1 (071-580 9562;. Mon-SaL 8pm.
mats Thurs. Sat. 2.30pm. 1 20mm;

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from qnef to revenge- engrossing
production of Euripides by new arumc
director Laurence BcKwel

Gate J l Pembndge Road. Wl) ;07 ) -
22907C6) Mon-Sat, 7 30pm 105mms

□ THE INVISIBLE MAN: A revival ol
Iasi year s merry production, prior to a
West End run Amazinq stage tncte
devised by Paul hiev

Theatre Royal. Gerry Raffles Square.
Stratford £15(081-534 03I0J. Mon-SaL
8pm. mat Thus. 2pm, 135mms

THEATRE GUIDE

Jeremy Kingston's assessment
of theatre showing in London
■ House full, returns only
H Some seats available
□ Seats at all prices

H JUNE MOON: Nann? songwriter
conquers 7n Pan Afley. Detoghihj)
comedy by Ring Lardrer and George S.
Kaufman Excellent cast
Hampstead. Swiss Cottage Centre.
NW3 (071-722 930U Mon-5ak 8pm.
mal SaL 4pm

□ THE MADRAS HOUSE: Roger
Adam head; a strong cast in GrarmHe
Bad er's pnxo-fenvresL senous
comedy, set in a lashron house

Lyrk Hammeremith. I'mg SueeL W6
(081-741 231 Ij. Mon-SaL 7.30pm.
mats Wed. Sat. 2.30pm t60nuns

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Gerald Harper and William Gaunt play
crime writers who la* out and p>) ihnr
wicked wits against each other run-jf-
the-rnD thnllef

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□ PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME):

Snan Fort's affecwwaie comedy ol an
Irish emigrant aid hi; carping after
ego A revival (o be cherished.
WyndhanYs. Channg Croa Road.

WC? <07 1-867 I J 761. Marr-Fft. 8pm.
SaL 8. 1 5pm. mats Wed. 3pm. SaL
5pm 140mm;

□ PYGMALION: Alan Howard.

France; Barbet >n a Howard Davies
production that some admire greatly
whfe other, feel subordinates the (ext
toadever deagn

National (Olivier). South Bant. SE1
1071-928 2252' Tomghr. 7.15pm.
195mm;

□ SHADES Pauline Collin; lorn
between her child, mum and manfnend
m Sharman Macdonald'; disappointing
new play, only sporad caily absorbing.
AIbcny. 5( Marlin's Lane. WC2 (071-
867 1 1 15; Mon-SaL 8pm. matsThor^
3pm. SaL 4pm- 120mins

D 5K DEGREES OF SB>ARAT)ON:
Stockard Charming as the rich New

Yorker transfigured by a black con
artst m John Guare's fine pUf on
human ;nre« -dependence.

Comedy. Panton Street, SW1 >071-
8671045/ Mon-SaL 8pm. mats Wed.
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□ SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH
OVER ME: Eicederit playing by Alec
Mo2owen. lames McDaniel and
Stephen Rea as Beirut hostage; in Frank
McGumnesVs new play.

Vaudeville. The Strand. WC2 <07 1 -
836 9987). Mon-SaL 8pm. mats. Wed,
2.30pm. SaL 4pm. I40mns

□ WOMEN LAUGHING: Michael
Wall's subtly oxmc and poignant drama
of husbamfe going crazy first rate
performances

Theatre Upstairs. Royal Court, Sloene
Square. SWl (071-730 2554) Mon-SaL
7 30pm. 1 50mm;

P A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE:
Philip Prowse's triumphant R3G
production John CarSde as a callous
anno jar m Wide's social melodrama
laced with wit

Theatre Royal, HaymartteLSWI 1071-
930 8800) Mon-SaL 7 30pm. mats
Wed. SaL 2 30pm. I65m»ns.

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■ THEATRE

Oedipus leads
uneven trilogy

TH E stylistic problem facing a direaor
who seeks to unify the three plays
devoted to the family of Oedipus is that
Sophocles wrote them over a period of
half a century. Antigone's defiance of
Creon. chronologically last in the story,
was written first, followed 12 years
lafer by the drama of her father’s fall
And when Sophodes was 90 he defied,
it is said, his own rebellious sons and
wrote of the aged Oedipus's persecu-
tion by his sons before he found his
noble death in the grove at Colonus

John Shrapnel'sCreon grows consis-
tently along the line of plays, from an
injured member of the royal family
through thuggery in time of war to the
final stubborn despot But Oedipus
changes from the guflty victim of
Oedipus iy ran nos to an innocent who
happens to have fathered, for reasons
unexplored, odious sons: and in the
play centring upon Antigone she
unexpectedly shows herself so enam-
oured of her brother that for his sake
she relishes a premature death.

The plays are set in Thebes. Colonus
and Thebes, and Adrian Noble's Royal
Shakespeare Company production de-
velops the rhythm in this progression
by covering the Theban stage with
smoking tarmac (the earth, presum-
ably. in revolt) where Colonus, dose to
safe and peaceful Athens, is given a
strong and central rock. The Eiders of
Thebes wear key-patterned robes and
bristling whiskers — in silhouette very
like figures on Greek vases — while
their Athenian counterparts sport bulg-
ing half-masks and swollen skirts.

Despite their quaint resemblance to
a tribe of Sydney Greenstreets dressed
in crinolines, this Chorus brings a

The Thebans

Barbican

cohesion to the Colonus play that 1 did
not find in the surrounding pair- The
designer Ultz gives h a mainiy oriental
look, though inis does not extend to the
Theseus of Philip Voss, in sonorous
voice and a blue suit. But Gerard
Murphy’s Oedipus is day-smeared
and grey, like a Chinese ceramic
figure, and Joanne Pearce's Antigone
enters crouched on his shoulder like
some ivory goblin.

To Ilona Sekacz’s loud percussion,
played from two bamboo cradles
suspended either side of the stage, the
Chores sing, dance, stamp and process
in a manner carefully distinguished for
each lyric outburst, though the sheer
number of these in the course of the
five hours sf " "inching the stage
does become tiring as the everting
advances towards its dose. What is
admirable is the involvement of Oedi-
pus himself in one of the dances,
leading the Chorus yet one with it. in a
mood of reckless joy 1 have never
before seen presented like this.

Murphy’s powerfully spoken Oedi-
pus is an autocrat of iconic grandeur
whose movements in his first scenes
suggest a breathing, gilded statue.
Though he wears no mask his stiff face
is mask-like, snapping his mouth tight
after speaking. When later in the first
play, after one of the rare lines of
comedy, the trap begins to close. Linda
Marlowe's Jocasta freezes and Mur-
phy’s huge eyes glitter, soon to be
caked in bright scarlet

Timberiake Wertenbakeris newly
translated version is generally dear but
introduces some poor revisions. It is no
improvement to describe Oedipus’s
bloody eyeballs hanging over his chin,
and the counsel she puts into the
mouths of the Athenian elders —
“Cease to lament all is under control''
— adds an irony not present in
Sophocles. Even though these men are

cliche-mongers, there is bathos, not
resignation, in their advice that “not to
be bom wins the day”.

The trilogy seems to decline in power
through the plays. If this is a conse-
quence of presenting them as a trilogy
a disservice is being done to the final
one.

Jeremy Kingston

MAN may be only a naked forked
radish bui how he can talk. Tom
Kempinski's new play depicts the
voluble vegetable in analytic mood, as
merciless to itself as io its listeners.
‘This is a play aboutTom Kempinski's
analysis.” announces the narrator
(John Castle, playing Kempinski him-
self): and there follow dips into the
psychiatric sessions that have appar-
ently lasted 12 years so far.

The author is a successful play-
wright, and the new work is so nakedly
honest about his life and career that
criddsm is almost brutal. He concisely
recounts the youth of a bright son of
German Jewish immigrants, an abor-
tive Cambridge careen politics, sexual
demands on "his first wife, his great
success with Duet For One (another
two-hander for analyst and patientj
and references to a "failed marriage

with the formidable
access he calls
FranJde.

Throughout he
refers to agorapho-
. bia- panic attacks,
the fear of going upstairs, of the toilet
and bathroom — “1 haven’t washed for
four months.'* he confesses when we
first meet The terror continues sporad-
ically. Even after Castle has shed both
scruMness and a stone in weight,
relapses occur. Messages on the doc-
tor's answering machine speak of the
terror of leaving the house: and the
play ends with Kempinski’s credo:
“Truth, freedom and the struggle ag-
ainst the fear that kills.”

The trouble is that
his terrors are never
property defined.
When. 50 minutes
into the play. Kem-
pinski is still pulling
new neuroses out of the hat — like
wanting to leap upon the American
foster-sister from his wartime host
family — the prospect seems, unhappi-
ly, limitless; and sure enough, he is
facing the fact that he wanted his
father dead, though nobody actually
mentions Oedipus. Worse, the writer
feels tom between his natural and his
American mothers.

Tire play is more intriguing on the
subject of generic guilt “1 feel responsi-

ble for the death of the Jews in the gas
chambers," he wails. Most fascinating
of all is the genesis of his later plays: the
guilt that inspired 77ie Beautiful Part
of Myself, the telephonic relationship
with a similarly handicapped Ameri-
can actress that inspired Separation.

Madeleine Wynn’s production in
this Earis Court venue —short scenes
between patient and doctor — avoids
self-pity. Castle has the author's self-
mockery and ability to deflate the
pretentious. He sulks at personal
slights, flies into petulant rages, shows
cunning as well as vulnerability. Ron-
ald Wood is a scrupulously understated
foil, a doctor who sounds appropriately
sage bur never sentimental: beautifully
balanced in a tricky role. The play may
portray self-indulgence, but avoids it.

Martin Hoyle

No couch potato, he

When the Past is
Still to Come
Finborough Theatre

CONCERT

OPERA

Partners in virtuosity

Young talents misled

THE meeting between Orpheus and
Prometheus is a time-honoured one for
those familiar with this conductorless
chamber orchestra from America.
Beethoven's ballet music. The Crea-
tures of Prometheus, endeared British
audiences to the Orpheus Chamber
Orchestra when the New York ensem-
ble first recorded the work, and it has
become something of a theme tune for
the band ever since.

Excerpt front die ballet music acted
as overture to the first of the orchestra's
three London concerts. The perfor-
mance bore all the Orpheus hallmarks:
fizzing repartee, swiping attack, sharp
cueing from desk to desk. The players’
true virtuosity and — more important
— their maturity' as a group was
revealed in the Schoenberg Chamber
Symphony No l which ended the
evening.

So brilliant were the individual
colours of the 1 5 players, so disciplined
and structured their preparation of the
piece that it came to life more than ever
as a striking aural counterpart to a
canvas by Kandinsky. Both composer
and artist shared a striving for vivid
abstraction, for a concentration of the
primordial elements of sound and
tone. Here, in the hands of the
Orpheus, the colours were still bright

Orpheus

Chamber Orchestra
Festival Hal]

and wet: the five notes of the solo viola
and cello rising to a luminous wood-
wind chord, or a wind phrase reverber-
ating on the vibrato of the strings.

The performance was preceded by
Webern's early and lush Langsamer
Satz. This was a chamber orchestra
really playing chamber music, as the
four string voices worked on trans-
forming one motif after another in best
Brahmsian style.

Before this came a return to the First
Viennese School with Mozarfs Piano
Concerto in C. K503. Alfred Brendel
was the soloist, very much at the helm
in the absence of anyone on the
podium. With his companion-in-arms,
the Orpheus’s elected leader for this
piece, stamping her dainty foot lustily,
and all but working-out from the
concertm aster's chair, "this was a vigor-
ous. sharply defined performance, yet
one which was never quite at ease with
itself.

Hilary Finch

BRITISH Youth Opera seasons seem
to be settling into a pattern of one good
production and one bad. a pattern th at
one prays will not turn into a tradition.
After their sound Carmen came a Cost
of depressing superficiality. It was set
at the time of the Gulf War. and we
were in the company of nice. Home
Counties gels. Their fiances were naval
officers, returning as Saudi business-
men. and most of Act II took place
during a Glyndeboume dinner inter-
val. But we never really knew who
Despina was. Don Alfonso was no
philosopher, but an objectionable
yuppie with a mobile phone.

Jamie Hayes's staging, in a neatly
adaptable set by Ruari Murchison, in
general imposed gags and business
from outside rather than drawing
comedy from the text This kind of
production has been increasingly prev-
alent recently. It is apparently devised
to give sponsors as painless a night out
as possible: a few jokes: plenty of
unscripted action by minor figures
while principals are trying to play a
sane: nothing to disturb; nothing to
probe; nothing to question why Da
Ponte wrote all those words and
Mozart all those notes.

Luckily, things were happier musi-
cally, and demonstrated how wavy the

Cosi fan tutte
Sadler’s Wells

line is between postgraduate and full
professional performances. Nathan
Berg's Guglielmo (meaty middle regis-
ter. fine sense of musical line) and
Andrew Burden’s Fernando (accurate,
well tuned, sweet of timbre) were
embarrassingly more accomplished
titan their senior coDeagues in Glas-
gow last week, and Christopher
Gayford conducted with more warmth
and variety of response tiran had Justin
Brown for Scottish Opera.

Susannah GlanvOle (Fiordiligi) and
Emma Sehvay (Dorabella) oversang
too often; when GlanvtUe took the
pressure off for “Per pietA” most
sensitively delivered, the full extent of
her promise was revealed. Otherwise,
the relentless forte-tofortissimo from
them, and from Liza Pulman’s rather
shrill Despina, grew wearisome. It was
not their fault any more than it was
John Neale's that his Alfonso had to be
so unappealing. Young singers deserve
the best guidance; on this occasion
they did not appear to have had it

Rodney Milnes

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Pied Piper hands over his pipe

Richard Morrison

reports on a huge
educational project
lust begun by 16
British orchestras

O n Thursday, when the
London Philharmonic

takes the platform for the

first time as the Festival
wall's resident orchestra, you wfll
probably hear a lot of portentous
flannel about “the dawn of a new
era in British orchestral life", if this
is a dawn, it has been preceded by
some very dark hours. A two-year
squabble, as die South Bank strug-
gled to annoint one orchestra while
keeping the others sweet, has cer-
tainly cast doubt on the thesis that
music is the food of lave. The only
winners so far are the lawyers.

Perhaps the South Bank Centre's
dreams will come true. The LPO’s
playing might improve so much that
all the ranks of music critics can
scarce forbear to cheer. London's
concert-goers might suddenly dis-
cover their courage, and crowd into
not the numbingly familiar parade
of Brahms and Mahler, but nights
of sdntiflatmg adventure. The
London Symphony Orchestra, sit-
ting pretty at the Barbican on a
cushion of massive City of London
Corporation subsidy, may be given
proper competition. London's musi-
cal life might become as exciting as
Berlin's, or at least Birmingham's."

Unfortunately it win be montits
before the public notices real differ-
ences. The repertoire for this season
is about as unexpected as egg and
chips in a greasy spoon. Orchestral
life desperately needs renewal, but
do not look to the South Bank on
Thursday for the revolution.

Look, rather, at an astonishing
project which starts next January. It
has hardly been publicised, yet upon
its success (and that erf follow-ups}
rests the very survival of palaces of
culture like the Festival Hal
This is a revolution that has
united 1 6 of Britain’s orchestras —
fiercely competitive beasts, all of
them — on one mission. It involves
40,000 primary-school children,
thousands of teachers, and die
Orkney-based composer Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies — whose Orkney
Wedding with Sunrise proved to be
the unexpected hit of the Last Night
of the Proms. The projecr has a
£300.000 budget and the fending
of that too. has brought together a
rare alliance; subsidy from all four ,
Arts Councils, a grant from the

Primary school children making music: SirPeter Maxwell Davies will be allowing them to determine many aspects of his new piece. The Turn of the Tide

Foundation for Sport and the Arts,
and sponsorship from Shell UK.

. Everything revolves around anew
Maxwell Davies piece commis-
sioned by tiie Association of British
Orchestras. The piece is called The
Turn of the Tide , a clever title for a
work that encourages children to
take better care of fee environment
than their parents have done.

This is unconventional music
Built into it are paints where the
composer renounces control to fee
children, whose compositions
(based upon five simple themes
devised fay Maxwell Davies} are
integrated into fee final perfor-
mances. Nor will fee professional
musicians prepare this premiere
conventionally. Many wfll have
“adopted" a school working with
teachers to help the children develop
the themes. The beauty of the project
is that fee musical process— getting
children to rework preexisting
ideas, showing how new can be
created out of old. and how undisci-
plined “industiv" can stifle natural
creativity— perfectly mirrors the en-
vironmental theme.

Finally. The Turn of the Tide will
be performed in 25 concerts across
fee country. Large numbers of
children wfll be mingled wife the
orchestras, playing their part along-
side the professionals. The orches-
tras range from big ensembles such
as the LSO. the City of Birmingham
and the Halle, to cham ber groups.

Some have long pio-

neered music educa-
tion.' The Scottish ‘Ofl f
Chamber Orchestra, 1

for instance, runs an- raefe

nual schools’ projects IcSLh

in Stxathdyde, also _
involving Maxwell OI CU.

Davies. To some ex- ______

tent, this TUm of the

Tide project is fee “Straihdyde

Concertos" scheme writ large.

But five orchestras are venturing
into music education for fee first
time. “A great deal of orchestras'
work in the future win be outreach:
making people aware of what
orchestras do and can do." says
Maxwell Davies. “It is, in effect, the
democratisation of classical music"

That is the crucial reason why

orchestras are doing this: a feeling
that their own survival depends on
it And they only need lode across
fee Atlantic for motivation. In one
American city after another, orches-
tras have gone into steep decline
because they neglected to widen the
base of their support Instead, they
relied complacently on patronage

‘On the success of such projects
rests the very survival of palaces
of culture like the Festival Hall’

from the white middle d asses. The
ethnic minorities sensed that sym-
phony halls were not their “territo-
ry", and stayed away. To make
matters worse. American schools
hardly recognise music's existence.

Too late. American orchestras
have woken up to impending
disaster. The Los Angeles Philhar-
monic inaugurated an ambitious
outreach scheme two years ago. only

to abandon it last season when
facing financial crisis. Now they and
others are trapped in a vicious rirde.
They cannot afford to woo new,
young audiences, yet they cannot
afford not to.

For British orchestras fee threat is
perhaps less urgent We still teach
music in schools. But the reason why
many orchestral man-
agements lined up
ijppfo against fee govem-

ment last year, in fee
laroc argument over the

latCo national music curric-

rT n, uhun, was a fear that

Hall if music was present-

______ ed to children as a

dusty academic disci-
pline. rather than as one of fee most
exuberant activities known to hu-
manity. the music profession would
become as alienated from fee rising
generation here as in America.

So the Turn of the Tide project has
been devised to tie in wife the
national curriculum, and also — in
its choral finale — to revive class-
room singing. By doing so. it sends
a message to the government “ Look

what we orchestras can do to lift
musical creativity in schools, and
imagine how much else could be
done wife die right incentive."

Of course, sceptics will voice
objections. They will argue feat
some orchestras only do educational
work because it is a condition of
their public funding; that Shell U K's
sponsorship of a conservation-based
children’s project is blatant image-
massaging; and that even a project
involving 40.000 children brings
only a small minority of the coun-
try's school pupils into contact with
professional music-making.

Some of this may be justified. The
Turn of the Tide may also turn out to
be fee dullest thing to come out of
Orkney since fee discovery of peat 1
hope not The whole precarious
music-business edifice — concert
halls, record companies, radio sta-
tions. orchestras, composers, even
tiie much vaunted residencies — will
cradi down if it is not buflt on a solid
foundation of widespread musical
appreciation. Nurturing that appre-
ciation in nine-year-olds must be a
good first step.

Galleries: John Russell Taylor finds Norwich Castle Museum and the town crowded with quintessential^ English faces, both past and present

G iven that we are now
living in a multi-cul-
tural society, few
tilings are more surprising
than fee continuity of the
English face. The streets
around Norwich Castle are
teeming with faces that might
have stepped straight out of
the Castle Museum's resplen-
dent show of Norfolk Por-
traits. Indeed, one need not go
so fan one of the gallery
assistants, applying the last
few dabs of paint at the private
view, proved to be the spitting
image of Dawson Turner
nearly two centuries earlier in
Thomas Phillips's affectionate
portrait of The Turner Family.

This show is about two
things: fee Norfolk face and
Norfolk taste. The title of the
accompanying book says it all:
Family and Friends — A
Regional Survey of British
Portmimre. As a region of
Britain. Norfolk is exceptional
in two things: its reasonable
proximity to London and the
degree of distance that it has
nevertheless managed to
maintain, throughout the
19th century, when it con-
trived to remain relatively
innocent of trains. Even today
it is still just too remote for the
average commuter. This has
meant that Norfolk’s great
and famous have been able to
enjoy the latest feat London
has to offer, and at the same
time retain a strong sense of
local identity and pride.

Afl this shows up in fee
exhibition. There is certainly

Historical survey that’s full of phiz

no lack of elegance and sophis-
tication among fee works on
shew, which range in time
from the mid- 15 th century
right up to Tom Wood's
portrait of Timothy Colman,
completed last year.

There are two characteristic
Hogarths, both commissioned
by locals. One is fee famous
conversation piece of The
Cholmondeley Family (1732).
one of his finest contributions
to the English rococo In fee
other fee only conversation
going on is between its unfor-
tunate subject and his cham-
ber pot Francis Matthew
Schutz was apparently^ little
too partial to strong liquor,
and so his wife commissioned
Hogarth to paint him in bed.
vomiting after a normally
heavy night

The taste of this particular
piece was considered coarse
enough for the 1 9th century to
draw a veil over it or more
precisely cover ft with a news-
paper, which cunning over-
painting made it look as
though Schutz were eagerly
reading. Fortunately fee pic-
ture’s moral is now again
allowed to shine forth.

Considering the unmistak-
able kxal awareness of artistic
fashion, it is perhaps not
surprising that the show
boasts many important
names: not only Hogarth, but
Holbein the Younger (two

drawings lent by the Queen,
the royal family being local
residents ever since the future
Edward VII bought Sandring-
ham). Hilliard, Van Dyck.
Reynolds. Ramsay. Sargent
and even Francis Bacon, who
has portrayed Lisa Sainsbury
in his own inimitable style.
With a few exceptions, howev-
er. the biggest names perform

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here in a lacklustre manner.

Perhaps our expectations
are automatically too high. On
fee other hand, artists of
relatively little fame, and
sometimes of total anonymity,
do attract fee eye.

One of fee earliest pictures
to remain in the memory, for
example, is anon’s artless im-
age of The Tasburgh Family

( 1 6 1 5/ 1 6). in which a brood of
six gaily bedecked children are
presided over by their puffy
and mournful-looking mother
in deepest black. She was. it
seems, unhappily married,
which is suggested as a reason
for the absence of fee husband 1
— though if that were the
criterion, one wonders how
many of the show’s many

family groups would be intact.
It is difficult to imagine feat
fee family in Henry Walton’s
enchanting Sir Robert and
Lady Buxton and their daugh-
ter Anne (c. 1 786) were not
contented. Walton was a pupil
of Zoffany, which shows in the
lightness and elegance of this
image, with its exquisitely
toned symphony of greys. But
it would not be easy to match
the controlled informality of
this painting in any other
painter this side of fee Chan-
nel except perhaps Ramsay.

Portrait by another Norwich
boy. Michael Andrews, stand
out among some other rather
niminy-piminy examples of
contemporary portraiture.

But finally, it is fee faces one
carries away with one, back to
fee streets. In a show of local
portraits, that is just as it
should be.

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KEN RUSSELL soon lo
present his own. very special
interpretation of Gilbert and
Sullivan — a Princess Ida for
English National Opera —
has not been neglecting the
field in which he first won
fame: film biographies of com-
posers. His surreal BBC por-
trait of fee Czech composer
Martinu was shown last sea-
son: new London Weekend
Television's South Bank Show
has scheduled Russell's The
Secret Life of Arnold Bav for
transmission.

The film reveals the faas
about fee eariy-20th-centun
English composer and \1 aster
of the King's Music that the
music encyclopaedias unac-
countably omit — as Is evident
by the fact that Russell's wife.
Hetty Baines, plays a stripper.
Glenda Jackson, unforgetta-
ble star of Russell's Tchaikov-
sky bio-pic. The Music tuners.
also appears in the Ba\ film,
which will be transmitted on
November 15.

Late result

FOR her role in Roberto
Rossellini’s Eurvpa. Ingrid
Bergman was awarded the
Volpi Cup for best actress at
the Venice Film Festival of
1951. Then, cuntroversialh.
the award was denied her on a
technicality, her dialogue in
the film having been dubbed.
At fee time, she was also
widely criticised and castigat-
ed for her affair with the film's-
director.

Forty-one years on. thero
has been a change of heart
and the late star’s son.
Robertino Rossellini, received
the trophy on her behalf at the
end of this year's festival. It is
the original cup. about two
feet high, which had been
engraved at the time but was
never handed over. The
present-day equivalents are
rather smaller.

Ingrid Bergman: her
award made at last

Last chance .. .

CELEBRATING 250yearsof
Handel's Messiah, fee exhibi-
tion "A Fine Entertainment"
(Paflant House Gallery in
Chichester. 0243-774557)
has assembled portraits of the
composer (not all flattering),
the original hand-written
score of Messiah and much
Handeliana beside. The shew
ends on Saturday.

N or does fee show fall
off after the Regency
period. The three por-
traits included by the 1860s
illustrator Frederick Sandys
(bom and raised in Norwich)
come as a particularly pleasant
surprise. The earliest, of Ade-
laide Maty, Mrs Philip
Bedingfield, looks much more
like a German Nazarene than
an English Pre-Raphaelite,
though Sandys was dosely
linked wife the Brotherhood.

The latest. Cyril Flower,
Lord Battersea, is' an astonish-
ing tour-de-force of large-scale
design in coloured chalks, and
looks boldly ahead (from
1877) to fee 1900s. It is also
good to see a Mannings.
Daniel Tomkins and his Dog,
dating from fee period when
Mun rungs was stffl a good
painter, and a powerful Self-

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T he Broken Spoke is a
country music dance
joint in Austin. Texas.
You know what modem coun-
try music is: fee only musical
form that could put an electric
fiddle and an electric guitar in
the same band and think ft
made any sense. The MC at
the Broken Spoke is dear
about where he is at culturally
speaking: “Nothin’ fancy out
here, none of that Pierre
water."

He introduces the act of
Jimmy Tingle, a left wing (by
American standards) comedi-
an from Boston via New York.
Tingle goes down like a lead
balloon but he knows when to
quit As soon as the sullen
silence turns to shouts of “Get
off, now,” Tingle’s fine-tuned
sensibility to fee state of an
audience tdls him where to go.

Last night brought the con-
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dle America, from North Da-
kota to the Mexican bolder in
Texas. The journey is a rela-
tively unusual one, for most of
America is known to fee world
by its borders — fee Pacific
coast, fee Eastern Seaboard,
fee Great Lakes and the Deep
South.

Unfortunately, the success of
a television documentary is not
measured by fee route it takes
but by the insights it provides.
Last night amounted to little
more than a reinforcement of
certain stereotypical images,
such as that provided by the
Broken Spoke and by a group
of rodeo riders in Oklahoma,
who expressed a longing for
fee old frontier days of guns
and cattle and beans cooked
over wood fires:

Even Oklahoma must have
another side, but put two men

in a classic, finned convertible
from Detroit’s halcyon days
and set them lose on this road
and you will get, 1 suppose, fee
insights they think we are
expecting rather than any-
thing fresh. Indeed, Tingle,
especially, and Schroeder
seemed more surprised to find
this other America than I was,
but then I have lived with
countless British documenta-
ries about fee States.

I f you address an enquiry
about Oklahoma to a
native New Yorker or a
Bostonian, a look of bemuse-
ment mixed wife alarm
spreads on their faces. I con-
sult Americans only if I want
to know what lies inside Ma-
dameTussauds. and why they
continue to queue to see ft.

What we badly need is an
American series about Britain.

something that the transatlan-
tic documentary industry is
reluctant to provide. Rutty
Wax has done it in a small
showbiz way but a serious
attempt to hold up a minor (ft
only fogs when we hold ft up
ourselves) would provide these
too-in$ular islanders wife a jolt
from which they could only
benefit Consider the impact
some years ago, of a angle
Time magazine cover story
called “The Tribes of Britain”.

1 think we know fee arche-
typal Broken Spoke, as indeed
we know Archer City. Texas,
fee ghost town put on fee map
by writer Larry McMurtrey
and, definitively, by Peter
Bogdanovich in a film version:
The Last Picture Show. The
reality we saw last night was
too dose to the so-famiHar
mythology.

There were entertaining
moments along fee way. but
superficial exploration finds
only a worn seam. Nuggets lie
deeper in fee heart of Texas.

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4 MODERN TIMES

LIFE & TIMES TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1992

A carnival of expats

Churchill said that
one vote could swing
an election.
George Hill on the
Americans in Britain
warming up for the
presidential election

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" o country in ttie world has
set out more zestfully than
the United Slates to Cum
the democratic process
carnival On presidential

into a carnival on presidential
election night in November. Ameri-
cans in die UK will be separated by
the breadth of an ocean from die
nationwide party back home. They
must enjoy the dimax of die cam-
paign (or grieve over it) from far off.

But they will be making die best of
it London on November 3 will be full
of election night parties, large and
small, ranging from the big tradition-
al celebrations at the American
embassy and the English-Speaking
Union to smaller gatherings around
the television screen in hotels and
private houses as the results come in.

For the American political ma-
chines, overseas voters are a constitu-
ency well worth wooing. As Churchill
said, one vote is enough to clinch an
election. That just might be a postal
vote, or today even a fax, from
overseas. Several dose results in

recent years, including the contest for
governorship of California in 1990,

governorship of California in 1990,
are said to have been dedded by
postal votes. .

Nearly 40 per cent of eligible ex-
patriates cast their votes at die last
presidential elections in 1988 — a
rate not far short of the perreniafly
low rate in the US itself. Republicans
and Democrats alike have active
permanent worldwide associations to
make contact with potential support-
ers. tap them for contributions, and
persuade them to register.

There are at least three million of
the United States' citizens abroad at
any one time. In Britain there is a
constantly fluctuating population of
at least 250.000. Only Germany
among European countries is host to
a larger number of American citizens.
A high proportion of Americans in
Germany are there as members of the
forces. The contingent of American
civilians in Britain, though the em-
bassy keeps no exact figures, is almost
certainty the most diverse anywhere
outside the US. They indude people
in almost eveiy area of life —
business, the law. education, the arts
and the media, as wdl as tourists,
wives and husbands of Britons, and
the retired.

There is no American Internation-
al Club in London, as there is in
many other European capitals, to
make a focus for campaigning.
Unlike their compatriots elsewhere.
Americans in the UK feel relatively
little need to stick together or think of
themselves as a community.

Republicans claim that two out of
three expatriates here are supporters
of the Grand Old Party. As they are a
relatively wealthy group, many with
interests in business, it is likely that
many fed an affinity with the right
Democrats reply that business people
and the middle dasses have suffered
severely in the recession, and hazard
the guess that party allegiances are
more even, broadly mirroring the
balance in the US itself.

Seven weeks before voting day. the
rival bandwagons in London are
beginning to roIL The Democrats
stole a march on their opponents last
week with a reception at the House of
Commons, at which Senator Paul

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The thinking campaigner Professor John Kenneth Galbraith attended the London rally with Senator Paul Tsongas to root for Clinton

Tsongas. a former unsuccessful con-
tender for the party's nomination in
this year’s primaries, appeared with
Professor John Kenneth Galbraith,
the veteran gadfly of the American
right to rally supporters to the flag of
Bui Clinton, and implicitly to put
down a marker for Senator Tsongas’s
own presidential hopes in 1996.

It was a buoyant occasion, where
the campaigning wisecracks of Sena-
tor Tsongas and Professor Galbraith
raised whoops of glee from a well-
heeled audience, which ranged from

young law students, in Brit-

aim for only a few months, to
residents with dual citizen- c p.

ship, settled in Britain for as •

long as 40 years, with Boston •

and the Home Counties Hi
weighing almost equally in
their accents. 3,2

As they discussed the intri- 0

caries of the electoral college
system, and enumerated the
pivotal states where Mr Clin-
ton must win or lose, it was
clear that they had not lost ~
touch with events and feel- I1C

ings at home. However, it ___

was equally dear, as they
applauded Professor Galbraith's
donnish ironies, that they were far
from being typical American voters.

For Democrats Abroad, the occa-
sion was something of a windfall "It
was organised veiy fast when we
discovered three weeks ago that
Senator Tsongas was coming to
Britain,” says Salty McNulty, the
chair of the organisation in Britain.
"It is a business visit rather than a
political one. but he agreed to appear,
and Professor Galbraith was coming
to London too."

John Wood, the chairman of
Republicans Abroad in Europe, has
to admit that at present there are not
plans for figures of equal stature from
his own party to address supporters
in Britain. “When we heard that

Tsongas and Galbraith were going to
be hoe," he says, “we tried to find a
Republican senator in town to debate
with them, but that did not prove
possible. We plan to approach any of
our people who are visiting London
before the election, and try to fix up
an appearance."

Mr Wood, an American who has
been settled in Britain for more than
20 years, is hopeful that at least one
public debate between the parties will
be organised, if with less notable
participants. He says: "There were

‘People here are very much
in touch with the real anger
against George Bush in the
US over jobs and the
economy. Our office is
fielding 60 calls a day now 5

four debates here in the weeks before
the 1988 election. At the moment it
does not seem likely that there will be
as many this time. But debates, while
fun. have little purpose. They are just
a way of getting people’s blood up."

One debate at least is already
firmly fixed in the calendar. “We
shall definitely be holding a debate
on October 7, between two figures
representing the parties, and two
others with more detached posit-
ions." says Clare Farrow, current
affairs project coordinator at the
English-Speaking Union. “This year
five motion will be that ‘this house
would vote Democrat*. The motion
alternates between the parties each
election year."

The English-Speaking Union will

also hold a party on election night
attended by 500 guests at £20 a head,
and there will be two separate rooms
where screens will report the results,
so that Republicans and Democrats
can gather to endure their suspense
apart.

About 1 ,500 invited guests, includ-
ing many British cabinet ministers
and media and show business celeb-
rities, are expected at the big election
night party always held at the

American embassy.

By tradition, the third principal

election night party in

London is held at the Nat-
pVi ional Liberal Club. This year.

L ' 1A however, the event is appar-

entity still in doubt with only
seven weeks to go.

, These indications of fewer

[X6 parties and fewer debates

known to the political
organisers suggest that inter-
est may be lower this year
than in the past Mrs
McNulty rejects the thought
“I was chair of this organis-
Vv ation four years ago, and

_____ there is no comparison with

the level of interest then and .
what we are seeing now. There was
great apathy a few months ago,
before Ross Perot came into the
campaign. But he certainty
galvanised Democrats into paying. -
attention. People here are very much
in touch with the real anger against
George Bush in the United Stares
over jobs and the economy. Our office
is fielding 60 calls a day now."

Mr Wood is more ready to concede
that there may be less interest this
time: “People are certainty confused
this year, much as they were confused
in the UK at the time of your general
election, and for similar reasons.
Since the end of the Cold War, we
have moved into a period where
people axe less focused and more
uncertain. But it is also true that

they want to be sure of their votes.

Mast expatriates will have to make
their derision with several campaign-
ing days stin to go. .In a closely
matched campaign, where the presi-
dent’s health is already an issue, any
faltering or gaffe by one of the
candidates could turn the balance at
the last miriute.

However, there are a few states
where overseas voters are getting the
privilege of waiting until voting day.
A few counties in California even
accept faxed voting papers, in spite of
authentication problems. California
is likely to prove a crucial state in the
national contest, so there is a theoreti-
cal possibility that faxed votes there
could wing the national result .

Some states also accept papers
received up to a week after the polls
close, so long as they are postmarked
earlier. If the result is a realty close
one, the proclaimed winner in Nov-

ember, whether Democrat or Repub-
lican, may have to wait a week in

lican, may have to wait a week in
suspense, to find out whether voters
from Westminster to Ougadougou
have confirmed or overturned the
verdict of metropolitan America.

While Londoners are being urged to save water, a tide is rising underground, as a fascinating new exhibition shows

The flood
beneath the
capital’s feet

L ondon's subterranean
water level is ruing by
up to two metres a year.
Yes, realty. Recent media cov-
erage has created an. impres-
sion of everything drying out.
with rivers turning into

mudflats, but the apparent
contradiction forms a logical
pattern. Much of the water
extracted from England's ru-
ral streams ends up in the
biggest cities, where consump-
tion per head is far higher
than it was in the one-bath-a-
week days. Over the same
period the manufacturing in-
dustries that used to extract
water from London wells have
gone.

Buildings with deep cellars

are having to have pumps
installed; the high-rise blocks
put up in the 1960s are
experiencing particular prob-
lems. you may not be that
sorry to hear. A recent report
suggests that we need 30 new
bore holes in central London
to stem the rising flood. True,

to stem the rang flood. True,
it is not an actual flood that is

feared (theatre audiences in
wellies, water lapping at the
books on the subterranean
floors of the new British Li-
brary) merely an overall in-
crease in dampness and
therefore pressure in London's
day; but this causes founda-
tions to shift and gulleys to
crack.

The earth, after a long
period of artificial drying out
during which most of present
London was built, is returning
to a more natural state. When
Trafalgar Square's fountains
were first installed they
worked off artesian wells; later.
London’s subterranean hy-
draulic company powered
them; in the future they may
become artesian again.

All this and much more can
be learned at the Building
Centre’s current exhibition in
Store Street, with pictures,
models and a video montage
in which leafy views of the
sources of the Fleet melt into
the photogenic fungus tints of
the sewers.

But though water, piped or
seeping, is die most ubiquitous
feature of the Other City
beneath our feet, there are
many more; my one real
criticism of this exhibition is
that the subject is far too
diverse to be covered in one
small show, and that precise
explanations are sometimes,
inevitably, skimped.

The designers fed this
themselves; the limitations of
space and cost within which
they have worked are a micro-
cosm of certain problems en-
countered by planners, archi-
tects and utility companies. So
much is crowded below
ground, yet there is no com-

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TWo worlds: cross-section at the junction of Euston Road and Tottenham Court Road

prehensive nether equivalent
to tile Ordnance Survey.

BT does not know quite
where the gas pipes run, the
gas companies arc not always
wefl-mformed about the
London Electricity Board and
nobody even has a complete
map of all the sewers because
tire 19th-oemurybu2ders that
laid many of them never got
together to make one. And
that is before you start on the
coal bunkers, car parks, cine-
mas. medieval graveyards, sil-
ver vaults, extinct Tube

stations, sludge, unexploded
bombs. Roman remains and
the other odds and ends that
make up London’s under-
world. It is in theoiy possible
to make a total map. on
computer, as a palimpsest of
multi-dimensional projec-
tions, but even file creation of
one complete small segment is
an expensive enterprise and
the total map remains a
dream.

In these circumstances, the
remarkable tiring is not that
competing interests under the

ground sometimes run into
each other and into trouble,
but that they manage as well
as they da The basic infra-
structure was almost all laid
down between the Battle of
Waterloo and 1914; it has
merely been elaborated since,
and the pragmatic agreements
about levels still hold good. It
makes you look with new
respect at the grandiose Vic-
torian Town Improvements
such as Hoibom Viaduct or
the Embankment when ypu
realise that a large but invisi-

ble part of their purpose was
tire construction of a wodd of
separate tunnels: here a train
or a tram, there a buried river,
above these Sir Joseph
BazaJ gate’s revolutionary sew-
er system that continues in use
today, below the lot a pneu-
matic postal railway.

It also makes you aware of
the cats-cradle of problems
confronting the present-day
designers of the King's Cross
Eurotunnel interchange or the
new Tube lines now planned.
For though it is tempting to
linger over such Gothic oddi-
ties as the lost stations, secret
as bad dreams, or the on Mime
catacombs at Norwood Ceme-
tery bang used to store police
hauls or narcotics, this exhibi-
tion is just as much a celebra-
tion of present and future
technological delights.

You may not expect to
become lyrical over a water-
main, but the “ring of bright
water” — the new master-
main due to start pulsing
round the capital in 1996 —
has its passionate devotees.

At a time when London
sometimes seems to be leader-
less. a country in its own right
currently ar the mercy of
various organisations and ve-
nal overlords, this exhibition is
stimulating. If it opens more
long-term questions than it
answers, some of these may be
explored further at the sympo-
sium that is planned for today
mid during a series of site
visits. Ask the Building Centre
for details.

Gillian Tindall

Still famous
after 50 years

Emd Blyton’s agent recalls a writer
Whose work still enthrals children

people who are angry do vote, and
when they axe happy they are less
likely to.

"Mr Bush is not charismatic in die
way Ronald Reagan was. but he has
a way of touching people’s hearts."

Registration is a constant preoccu-
pation with the overseas organis-
ations, or the political parties. An
unregistered supporter is a voteless
supporter. The embassy is providing
a telephone service to advise Ameri-
cans in the UK about how to register
and vote. Americans abroad vote in
the state where they last lived, even if
they have not visited it for 50 years.
Every state has its own set of
regulations, and some process appli-
cations more efficiently than others.
For some Americans in the UK, time

to register is already getting short if
they want to be sure of their votes.

E verything used to be so
out and dried: Enid
Btytan was. at best, a
jokel— reviled by. Kbrarians.
booksellers and file more “en-
lightened" sort of parent Tn
everyone’s eyes (except of
course, those of the children
for whom her books were
intended) Btyton' was a Bad
Thing that would, it was to be
hoped, soon go away.

This week, however, sees the
50th anniversary of the first of
21 Famous Five .books. The
series — despite having been
merolessty satirised by the
Comic Strip and remaining as
stubbornly dated as wincyette
combinations — still sells a
million copies a year. The
BBC has recently acquired the
rights in all of fiie 23 Noddy
books from Robert Maxwell's
ill-fated MacDonald Group,
and this autumn launches a
new animated television se-
ries, with file promise of
many "new” Noddy
titles to come. Annual
royalties on Enid
Btytoris estate (she died
in 1968} amoiinr to
over £750,000.’ Despite
even the revelations that
she could sometimes be
not very nice — her
younger daughter,
Imogen, having gone
on record to say that as
a. mother Btyton was
sorely deficient — her
popularity dearly shows
no sign of waiting.

It is difficult not to
refer to Btyton as a
phenomenon — an out-
put of over 700 .titles,
cumulative . sales
amounting to upwards
of 500 million copies,
translated into more
languages (about 130
at file last count) than
any other writers,
with fiie exceptions En
of Marx. Lenin. Tolstoy
and Agatha Christie.

She was bom in l897intoa
lower-middle dass household:
her father — a cutlery sales-
man to whom tiie was devoted
— left the family when Enid
was just 13. Critics and ama-
teur psychologists often ate
this as the driving reason
behind her lifelong compul-
sion to generate an endless
and sun-kissed childhood.

By the age of 22, she had
published nearly 150 articles,
stories, reviews, playlets — and
a book of children’s verse,
which ranged from the barely
tolerable to file utterly dire:
“Once I found a fairy, in my
cup of tea. She was nearly
drowned and wet as wet could
be.” But by 1935. Btyton was
publishing at a rate of knots —
adventures, fairytales, myster-
ies — and had become the
mother of two daughters.
Gillian and Imogen; her hus-
band Hugh, found Enid's
colossal success rather hard to
handle, subsuming his fear of
redundancy by means of the
time-honoured masculine tra-
dition of drinking himself into
oblivion:

. 'Divorce followed, and by the
time literary agent George
Greenfield came to handle.
Btyton’s affairs in I953,rshe
had been happily married to
Kenneth Darrell Waters, a
surgeon, for over 10 years.
“Her annual income was then
about £ 1 50.000 (about £2m by
today's values]", recalls Mr
Greenfield. “But money was
not realty important to her.
There was no side to her. but a
lot was spent on good food and

Enid Btyton and her daughters

her children. She never enter-
tained to any degree — no
great social grace, and no
general conversation; she
talked of royalties and sales,
like most successful authors.”

And what about racism and
all the rest of it? “She wasn't
consciously racist." Mr Green-
field says. “Although she did
■hate ‘abroad’. She was quite
hurt when the goDywogs. in
Noddy were criticised; she had
strong views, though — pro-
hanging, certainty.”

Did she read? “Read? No —
I never saw her read. Well —
the odd gardening book, may-
be." Was art of any impor-
tance? “No." Music? “Not at
all — no. she was totally
philistine."

In the early 1960s. Btyton
fen victim to Alzheimer’s dis-
ease. Her husband died in
1967, although she fantasised
that he was soft alive. She died
in a nursing home in Belsize
Park the following year, at the
age of 71.

Btyton’s legacy seems im-
pregnable: her books stin sefi
four million copies a year in
the UK alone, and countless
millions in translation. "I can
only think that it is that sense
of ‘And is there honey still for
tear," says Mr Greenfield,
“that never-never land, of dor-
mitory feasts, adventures on
rocky islands and in haunted
houses: it must all be highly
endearing to a youthful read-
ership in these rougher, tough-

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tide, the royalty was always 15
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approval over illustrations,
dust jacket and even the
typeface.

But what did she do when
she wasn’t writing? “There
was almost no such time." Mr
Greenfield says. “She aver-
aged 15 to IS books a year,
much' to the chagrin of her
children. She was so obviously
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Appeal of
captive
creatures

Conservation centres may be worthy, savs
John Campion, but they do sound dull.
Children need to see real, live animals

L ondon and Londoners of
all ages need a zoo. Only a
return to the realities of the
market will ensure the
long-term survival of the one they
have. With the ink barely dry on die
latest reprieve. I want to suggest a
modem. heresy: London Zoo must
return to being an unashamed
vulgar attraction.

A recent programme on BBC2
suggested that the zoo’s failure is a
result of changing public attitudes
towards keeping animals in captivi-
ty. If such pressure were a real
moral imperative, there would be
an unarguable case for eli minati ng
all animal captivity except what
directly relates to conservation as
quickly as possible: this plainly has
not happened. (No such imperative
has been felt at Chester Zoo, for
instance.)

So why does London Zoo go even
part of the way down this road,
crippling itself in the process by
depleting the paying attraction —
its animal collection? Does it hope
to avoid getting swatted by the anti- *
zoo lobby by displaying only a Sew
animals?

The fact that it is possible for anti-
zoo people to make a stand does not
imply that they must win: there is a
veiy sneable constituency, particu-
larly the most important one,
children, that comes to zoos precise-
ly to see captive animals.

The zoo’s parent body, the Zoo-
logical Society of London, could be
suspected of finding the zoo a social
embarrassment. Thus it has a fatal
liking forprestigious architecture—
probably an attempt to move the
zoo upmarket — and a gate,
although recently improved, inca-
pable of sustaining it. The society
wants for the zoo an internationally
recognised raison d’etre, which it
identifies as captive breeding with-
in a wider effort towards conserva-
tion. Conservation is not itself a
money-spinner. The baby animals
ir involves, however, are: so why not
have lots of animals breeding
rather than a few endangered ones?

There is an argument that en-
dangered animals attract by their
rarity. This is a simple misconcep-

tion — it is the diversity of a zoo's
collection rather than its rarity thar
is the draw; there is nothing to stop
a rare animal from being dull.

London Zoo’s fault lies in a
failure to put the money-making
functions fust: all else follows. The
proposal to turn the zoo into a
leading conservation centre is thor-
oughly worthy, but as a prime draw
it is boring.' 1 am not sure I know
what a conservation centre is, but I
fear it is not a zoo.

The search for the “modem zoo"
is a related red herring. It seems to
be a more conscious attempt than
the last to placate the anti -200
lobby. (Do “wildlife park" and
“ecology park" imply successively
fewer animals, enabling fewer and
fewer visitors to feel more and more
virtuous?)

T he modern zoo is likely to
be strong on conservation;
a few carefully chosen live
exhibits will illustrate a
few carefully chosen biological
principles, with a fair number of
explanatory static displays and the
obligatory expensive showpiece —
the most favoured one being a
transparent underwater tunnel
with sharks swimming all about
you. Viators will return once or
twice for this thrill while skipping
the boring bits, but there is little to
awaken the love which wfl] make
visiting the zoo a lifetime habit.

And there is something
patronising about all that printed
pasteboard when what you really
came to see was animals. None of it
has the elusive magic that is the
holy grail of the modem zoo
movement Which is exceedingly
odd, because the answer was star-
ing us in the face all along: animals
in profusion.

To achieve this we do not need to
shut animals up in small cages, or
connive at a cruel and illegal trade
we can augment our collection by
commerce with other zoos and the
rare, property constituted collecting
expedition. We shall need more
intelligent use of the space at
Regents Park, with lots of cheap,
roomy wire enclosures (half a

Rare attraction: no wildlife ffim can match the thrill of getting dose to a living, breathing panda

million pounds for the new aviary
and they still couldn’t get it right?).
The money spent on wooing the
anti-zoo brigade wfl] be far more
productively employed persuading
those who do like zoos to visit ours.

A zoo is one of those felicitous
inventions that civilised man used
to be good at devising without
knowing why and without having
to justify himself: a delight impossi-
ble to pin down. like ballet- It is in
our natures to love them: they are
expressions of our deepest human-
ity. I have, heard the opinion
expressed that we don’t want a
Noah's Ark at London Zoo. it is
exactly what we want

There is a strong spiritual dimen-
sion to this: we neat whether we
acknowledge it or not a glimpse of
the huge diversity of our fellow
creatures, to get some idea of our

place in the scheme of the Earth's
ecology and beyond: this diversify
itself predicates a large and diverse
animal collection.

We need to requite a serious
curiosity , comparing animals and
studying their differences at dose
quarters: to cultivate a tenderness
for them as individuals and a
respect for them as spedes; and to
bring up our children among these
incomparable riches. We can devel-
op a personal rapport with animals
in a zoo: with some of them, if we
visit often enough, it is quite
palpably a two-way affair, the
public example of the keepers’
devotion to their animals is- a
powerful dviliser.

Children particularly love to
touch and see and smell the
animals: nothing can substitute for
this experience, through which

children come to appreciate and
respect other spedes in the most
direct way available to them; when
drey grow up they wfl] understand
the meaning of conservation better
than by any amount of listlessly
watching wildlife films.

These are the considerations that
bring visitors bad: again and
again. The logic is inescapable
animals are what people come to
.see; the more animals, the more
people. Visitors need to come away
from the Zoo gobsmacked with
wonder — not asking themselves
where on earth did they all go?

There would be nothing like the
announcement that animals are
returning to London Zoo to bring
the visitors flocking once more.

erino NowspafMfi Ltd 1992

The author is a Fellow of the Zoological
Society of London

Another red
jelly day

H ow does it fed to be
seven? That's whai
most grown-ups ask
most children on their birthday.
And on examining themselves,
last year’s six-year-olds find no
discernable difference. Young
children start out believing chat
there will be some perceptible
alteration. My front teeth will fall
out. Ill be able to ride my big
brother's bicycle. I'D be allowed
to stay up to watch The Bill.

Children are ferociously ageisL
But then, wc teach them to be so.
In introductions to strangers, it is
question number two. After
"And what's your name, sonny?"
comes “How old are you?" So.
having spent an entire year
giving the same answer, they
expea the rights and rites of
passage that anend the next age
up to be granted overnight.

Disappoint-
ment is only di-
minished by other
goodies that come
your way on your
birthday: presents
— of course, party,
people making a
fuss of you.

Most of my peer
group of parents
are of an age to
wish their own
birth date would
slink by without
notice. But for my
children, their
birthday is still the
high point of the calendar —
better even than December IS.
since you share that with the rest
of Christendom. Your birthday
makes you special for a day.

Each’ family develops its own
ritual- Ours starts as soon after
dawn as the children can prise
open the adults' eyelids.

The birthday giri or boy re-
ceives a tray on which all their
cards and presents under 2ft in
length are arranged. The tray is
decorated with a posy rapidly
plucked from the garden at dead
of night before. Persons under
12 get a glass jar of coloured
sweets; persons over 30 get a
bottle of fizz. The obligation is to
share the contents with the other
celebrants, if your own digestive
system doesn’t wake tifl an hour
after you do. it is just as hard to
murmur appreciatively over
Moetas it is to suck a humbug at
6.30 in the morning.

The entire tray is placed in the
centre of the parental bed and
the grand opening begins. With
all the family heaped on the bed
someone shifts a cramped limb,
tips the birthday tray and the

flower arrangement falls over.
But the vase is only half full, and
the colouring on SmaiTies will
wash off a duvet cover.

So much for the party of the
first pan. Later in the day comes
the party proper. Much as 1 haw
tried to sell the idea of a grown-
up meal at a restaurant of their
choice, my youngest still hankers
for a bun fight of her own. If you
don't invite loadsa friends, how-
can you get loadsa presents?

The reason all this is so fresh, if
not raw, in my mind is that I've
just had two birthdays to orches-
trate. By coincidence, or pour
planning, my children's birth-
days are two days apart:

Both birthdays fall in the
School holidays when it’s less
practical to round up their
friends. so 1 have been skipping
the party in favour of an alterna-
tive treat My son
is content with a
family visit to the
Mandarin, pro-
vided we reserve
the table with the
central rotating
section. But my
daughter discov-
ered in shame that
her name was
being dropped
from the local six-
going-on-seven
party list, because
she had not hosted
her own soiree.
Biting the bul-
let. I offered a bouncing castle, a
conjuror, a riverboat ruzzle. a
knees-up at the local Methodist
Hall (they will rent out their
premises for almost anything), a
theme party (come as a princess
or a character from Star Trek) —
speaking persuasively about the
options where jelly would be
danced into carpets other than
my own.

Her choice was unoriginal and
unshakeable. The only place to
throw tire thrash of the season
was in the upstairs room of the
local hamburger joint It was
hefl. They do it all for you:
invitation blanks, food, disco
music. Blind Man's Buff, hats, a
cake, take-home bags. It is still
hell. Besides her two dozen “best
friends” (girls in glamorous par-
ty frocks), she invited a handful
of lads, including “the worst boy
in our class". He d imbed the
pillars, threw chips, and pursued
the girds to play kiss-chase in and
out of the Lathes.

The children may maintain
that they don’t “feel” a year older
at the end of their birthday day. 1 ,
can only say that I do.

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Playing truth or dare

There are times
when children
must feel it is
safe to own up to
their mishaps

A n 1 1-year-old boy was
so afraid of idling any-
one what had hap-
pened. he left his friend
trapped in a peat bog for three
days. Even when a police heli-
copter and officers with tracker
dogs were brought in to search
the Brecon Beacons, the boy
led them, the police said, on “a
wild goose chase". It was only
by luck that a man walking his
dog heard Matthew Davies’s
faint cries for hdp.

How- do you strike a balance
between being strict enough to
keep children safe yet not so
strict that if something goes
badly wrong they are not
afraid to own up?

We should not be hard on
children who cannot face di-
sasters they have brought on
themselves, according to Seb-
astian Kraemer. a consultant
child psychiatrist at the Tavi-
stock Clinic. London. He says.
“When 1 was that age I was
scared of grown-ups and even
now there arc times when 1
avoid, say, making a tele-
phone call because it will
mean admitting to having
done or not done something I
should have done. Shame, 1
think, is the key. Also, children

eve us when we say
be angry because
^ do own up we
e."

omas Coram Re-
mdon. they are con-
1 survey, funded by
1 department, of 600

0 find out how par-

1 up and control their
Marjorie Smith, the
rector, says; “One of
ions we are asking
id children is. ’Have
Iren ever been scared
d have you ever been

your parents?'
era tic parents who
,hy rules exist help
10 make rational
Icc when it is essential
But when they take
ilorian 'do it because
ipproach, that leads
ou make your duld
he important things

by listening. If he come s bac k
dirty because he tried to rescue
someone a parent should take
a different tack.

“Children accept reasonable
punishment. If it is a fair cop
the episode is closed, but if
they are punished for some-
thing that is not their fault they
will remember it as a great
injustice."

O ften it is to teachers
that children tum
when 1 hey are.fright-
ened. June Fisher is head of
Catford County School, south-
east London, where there are
800 girls between eight and
11, “The most important
thing if a child is pouring out
his.or her secrets." she says, “is
that nothing must ever appear
to shock you. Group morality
about incidents which will get
someone else into trouble is
very complex, there is a very
strong code of silence, and we
have to use very skilled ques-
tioning in order to break it
down."

Nicky ModeL a child psy-
chotherapist at the Anna
Freud Clinic. London, thinks
parents have become too easy-
going. “There is absolutely no
harm in parents making quite
definite rules as far as safety is
concerned." she says. “A lot of

our work is with parents who
want to know when they can
put their foot down. We ex-
plain they have to tell children
the rules are because you love
them, not because they are bad
children, so if they disobey
they are putting themselves at
risk, not incurring parental
wrath."

Mr Kraemer suggests that
parents tty playing a game
around the table. “Ask them
what sort of things they ought
want to keep secret, like climb-
ing down diffs, but which they
might have to own up to, like
falling down a cliff. Children
can be very inventive and it
would give parents a chance to
talk abort what to do in those
circumstances."

Anne Moran, the head of
Castle Town Primary School,
Sunderland, which is on the
banks of the River Wear,
knows the difficulfy of trying to
teach her young pupils tire
dangers of drowning. “I just
keep repeating my litany and
hope something gets
through." she says. ‘‘The diffi-
culty is to get a bal-
ance between a rational
approach and becoming
paranoid."

Heather Kirby

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In the Great
Plains

DENVER, Colorado, is the
key dty between Chicago and
the Pacific Coast, in the mid-
dle of the Great Plains that
stretch from the Mississippi
river to the Rocky Mountains.
Visit the Brown Palace, with
its traditional Victorian decor,
and the State Capitol's golden
dome, from where you can see
right across to the Rocky
Mountains.

Many roure into the Great
Plains are available. You can
go to the cowboy stare of
Wyoming with its capital
Cheyenne, famous for its law-
lessness after the Union Pacif-
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1867. There are still rodeos
and Indian dances to be seen.
In South Dakota, the Black
Hills encompass great forests
and lonely mining towns. At
Deadwood you can gamble,
and see the graves of Wild BUI
Hickok and Calamity Jane —
while in the Wind Cave Nat-
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LIFE & TIMES TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1992

Charlemagne’s Ditch
comes on stream

A canal linking the North Sea to the Black Sea is complete, 1 2 centuries
after it was originally started. Fabian Acker reports on its uses

T he ghosts of Charlemagne
and Ludwig 1 will be
celebrating the weekend
after next, together with
barge-loads of European VIPs, as
they cross the small ridge that
separates the watersheds of the
Danube and the Rhine.

The final link in a waterway that
stretches like a crooked grin across
the face of Europe has finally been
completed. What was begun by
Charlemagne, when Europe was
slipping into the Dark Ages, was
finished this year — 12 centuries
later.

The canal, known for a millenni-
um as Charlemagne's Ditch f Fos-
sa Carolina") provides a link
between the North Sea and the
Black Sea through the Danube,
which flow? eastwards, and the
Rhine, which flows to the north-
west The two rivers are linked not
only by the 1 10-mile canal, but also
by the river Main, which connects
the northwestern end of the canal
to the Rhine — hence its modem
name, the Rhine-Main- Danube
Canal.

It will now be possible to send
material (2.000 tonnes at a time)
on barges from Rotterdam to the
Ukraine and vice versa: barges will
climb up and down almost 800 feet
with the aid of hundreds of locks as
they move from one river system to
the other, transporting goods with
the lowest energy cost (and die
lowest noise), of any mechanised

transport. Recent studies in
Germany have shown that carrying
goods in Europe by train costs
nearly three times more lhan
carrying them by barge: road costs
are six times greater.

Commercial barges are unlikely
to traverse the whole route, as many
of the countries involved have their
own large ports. But Austria, for
instance, is landlocked and Roma-
nia has no access to the Atlantic.
While commercial movement over
the whole route is unlikely, pleasure
boat enthusiasts are already mov-
ing towards the northern water-
ways of Europe, ready to be among
the first to cross the continent on
water.

The success of the project has
depended on the money it has
generated, even before the first ship
ever traverses the canal. The in-
come derives from the sale of

electricity. Since the 1920s. while
the canal was still being planned,
small stations along the rivers have
been generating electrical energy,
tiie profits from which helped to
finance the development of the
whole project

The highest section of the route.
1.350 feet above sea leveL has no
power stations. Because of the
height water will have to be
pumped up to these locks and a
small reservoir has been built to
keep them topped up and to ensure
that no boats get left literally, high
and dry.

Most of the water will be pumped
from the Danube and the nearby
Alnmihi river. As the vessels move
down from the Danube direction
the water will move with them and
eventually flow into the Main.

Although locks are necessary in
almost any inland navigable water-

way. they inevitably hold up traffic
while they fill up and discharge.
But the barrage or dam that is built
around the locking system actually
helps the boats move quickly.

When a dam or barrage is built
across the river it creates a deeper
passage than before, and because
some of the curves in tiie bank
become inundated, a straighter one
too. In addition, the speed of flow is
reduced in the backed -up water.
Barges have a deeper pas sa ge to
navigate, and need less fuel to go
against the current.

One of the most important of
recent techniques was the develop-
ment of a lock that could fill and
empty quickly without causing
excessive surges. Scientists eventu-
ally came up with a system to take
water in and out by a bottom inlet,
so that a loaded motor barge, with a
draught of 8ft and pushing two
3.000 ton units, can be lifted or
lowered nearly 80ft in about 16
minutes, with, barely a ripple to
show’ for it.

The ripples have made waves,
however, in the environmentalists’
pond. Despite a budget of about
El 73 million on landscaping, the
surrounding areas have been
changed, and the habitat of some of
the natural wildlife has been dis-
turbed. Many claim tiie canal was
unnecessary, arguing that the
cheapest and most effective route
between the North and Black seas
was via the Mediterranean.

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The Rhein-Main-Danube canal runs softly through Germany

Replacement of hair cells in salamanders may suggest how hearing could be regained

Sounds like hope for the deaf

R esearch into the most com-
mon form of deafness is
attracting increasing scien-
tific interest as confidence grows
that one day a cure can be found.

Researchers both in Britain and
the United Slates believe they are
starting to narrow in on the
underlying mechanisms which
might restore the cells linked with
sensorineural deafness, so-called
nerve deafness.

Meanwhile, tests have been car-
ried out on a naturally occurring
substance, retinoic acid, which has
been linked with the multiplication
and division of cells in a growing
embryo to see if it might assist in
helping to restore aduJt hearing.
Only a few years ago most

scientists were convinced that sen-
sorineural deafness would be an
impossibility to treat
This kind of deafness is most
often the result of hair cells — tiny
sprouting cells that line the inside
of the inner ear’s cochlea and which
convert sound waves in nerve
impulses — dying because of infec-
tions. loud noise and age. Loss of
these tiny cells was considered a
final and irreversible process.

This pessimism appears to be
evaporating. The confidence has
come from a series of animal
studies carried out mainly since the
1980s. first on sharks and then on
young chicks. Here it was found
that ten days after being subjected
to loud noise, the damaged hair
cells of the young chicks had. in
many cases, been almostly com-
pletely restored. Further studies
published in 1987 indicated that a

similiar repair mechanism existed
in birds following hair cells loss
caused by overdoses of antibiotics.

It mil recently there was no
evidence that similiar recovery was
possible in mammals like man. But
tests at Keele University on guinea
pigs, whose hair cells have been
damaged by drugs, have found that
after three to four months all of the
animals have regained hearing.

Researchers have proposed dif-

ferent mechanisms for what may be
happening in the lining of die
cochlea but recent studies by Jeffrey
Corwin and colleagues at the
University of Virginia using lasers
and time lapse photography
appear to have all but settled the
argument After carefully liquid-
ating hair cells from the hearing
organs of salamanders they man-
aged to observe supporting cells
dividing and growing into replace-

ment hair cells. The team have
concluded that supporting cells are
indeed the parent hair ceils and
that they are only stopped from
becoming these tiny hearing de-
vices if they are next to a healthy
hair cell.

The search is now on to discover
the chemical cues that might trig-
ger this regeneration. Recently Dr
Corwin and Matt Kelley, his assis-
tant, reported dial embryonic mice
cochlea treated with retinoic add
developed large numbers of hair
cells which, if not regeneration,
might offer some dues to the
chemical triggers behind hair cell
restoration.

Nick Nutt all

UPDATE

Pessimism
about HIV

THE developer of the oral polio
vaccine. Dr Albert Sabin, doubts
that a vaccine can ever be found to
hah the spread of the Aids virus.
“In my judgment, the available
data provide no basis for testing
any experimental vaccine in hu-
man beings or for expecting that
any HIV vaccine could effective in
human being," Sabin says in an
artide published in the Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sci-
ences. Sabin said he is pessimistic
about the chances for a vaccine
because the way the AIDS virus
behaves in cells makes it very
riiffipuh- to halt its spread, unlike
polio or measles whose spread can
be checked by vaccines. The Aids
virus is one of a group of viruses
that reproduce themselves inside
cdls. Sabin said vaccines have been
developed for viruses but not for
virus-containing cells.

Russian recruit

BRITAIN’S leading centre for
research info superconductivity at

Cambridge has recruited a leading
Russian physicist to take part in a
study of the theory of high-tem-
perature superconductivity. Profes-
sor Alexandre Alexandrov, of the
Moscow Engineering Physics In-
stitute. has moved to the Interdisci-
plinary Research Cenire in
Superconductivity in Cambridge
for the next five years. Dr Yao
Liang, director of the centre, said:
“Professor Alexandrov is extremely
distinguished in this field and his
work on the theory behind super-
conductivity is much needed. Exist-
ing theory is no longer sufficient to
describe the behaviour of new
materials."

Kiwis under threat

UNCONTROLLED dogs are
causing a gradual decline in the
numbers of New Zealand's kiwis,
flightless birds that are a national
symbol, the New Zealand Depart-
ment of Conservation has an-
nounced. The numbers of the
Great Spotted, South Island and
North Island brown kiwis had all
declined, the department said.
Legal powers to shoot dogs attack-
ing kiwis are being sought from
Parliament “If we get on top of the
risks, we can maintain kiwi num-
bers on the mainland, instead of
sending them to off-shore islands."
said Janet Owen, director of pro-
tected species. “Kiwis can’t get
away from dogs. Dogs can get
them out of their burrow and move
j a lot faster. Kiwis are completely
vulnerable.” she said.

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MEDIA 7

Can Granada make its cost effective?

An accountant with no background in TV
is now head of a famous production house.
Roger Graef checks the balance sheet

L ost Tuesday British viewers
saw 7 Up South Africa.- the
latest incarnation of one of
Granada Television's most
inventive programmes. The idea is
to follow a group of young people
over the years to see whether their
origins have set their futures on
unchanging rails. Similar projects
have already begun in Russia,
Germany. Japan and America,
each with seven-yearly updates.

The British cycle has already
reached 35 Up — ■ which is the age
of Charles Allen. Granada’s new
chief executive. But as a light viewer
who selects Coronation Street once
a week because his girlfriend is an
addict he most likely missed 7 Up
and its sequels.

That is a pity, because his own
career in accountancy, hotels and
leisure would hardly have pointed
to his taking the helm of Britain’s
most distinguished commercial
television company by this early
age.

By all accounts. Mr Allen is a
likeable man. who lectures on
“motivation" at the London Busi-
ness School But he wiU have his
work cut out for him. Granada
production staff — and the rest of
the industry — are still in shock.

Of all the [TV companies, Gra-
nada most dearly symbolised quali-
ty television. Its commitment to
innovative current affairs, long
documentaries and extensive dra-
mas, and to nurturing talent has
produced much of television’s finest
work and recently that of the British
film industry as well — everything
from The Jewel'in the Crown and
Brideshead Revisited to Prime
Suspect and My Left Foot.

In the old days Granada took

risks, cushioned by its income from
TV rentals, cinemas and more
commercial (that is, less adventur-
ous) productions. Under Lord
Bernstein, Sir Dennis Forman,
and David Plowright the business
thrived, allowing cultural and polit-
ical patronage of a high order.

That tradition seemed to end in
January with the abrupt departure
of David Plowright as head of
Granada Television after a row
about cost cutting with the new
head of the Granada Group. Gerry
Robinson — also an accountant
with a leisure background.

Accountants now rule most of
British television, as the cries of
pain from the BBC and Central
over job losses and restructuring
confirm. Lord Hollick runs such a
tight ship at Meridian, the succes-
sor to TVS, that people have bailed
out before it even sets safl. Diane
NeOmes, appointed as head of
news and current affairs, left in
protest over the treatment of inde-
pendent producers. She went to,
Granada.

Ms .Neilmes now works on
World in Action, for 30 years the
most popular and effective investi-
gative programme on television.
Mr Allen has announced he is
proud of World in Action. But
market forces may override his
better nature. What reaction wiU he
have to the prospect of being
hauled before the courts for blas-
phemy or defamation or the de-
mand to disclose sources — aD of
which have recently happened to
Channel 4? Win his pride go before
the fall in revenue which serious
fines or damages might cause?
And, in thfe unlikely event of Mr
Allen backing such risks, would

the group board support him?

His appointment is the latest
episode in the boardroom saga of
the Granada group. When Mr
Robinson took over in November
1991. there were nine months to go
in the financial year. Despite the
recession, he announced a new
goal of £54 million profits from
television alone — more than
double the previous year’s £22
million.

Mr Plowright argued this could

only be achieved through massive
cuts, which would betray Grana-
da’s franchise commitments and
eliminate all but its most commer-
cial output He had already shifted
Granada's programme portfolio
from drama and documentaries,
underpinned by entertainment to
that of an entertainment-led com-
pany that made some drama and
documentaries. He offered to aim
for £32 million, itself a difficult
target and made serious cuts In

staff. But Mr Robinson was not
satisfied, and the board backed
him: Mr Plowright had to go. His
successor, Andy Quinn, left after six
months to become chief executive of
ITV, where he faces the same
pressures on an even larger scale.

Once, television people dominat-
ed the group. That has changed. In
addition to Mr Allen. M r Robinson
has recruited his old boss from
Grand Metropolitan as a non-
executive director. That makes

three former GrandMer people out
of eight deciding the fate of
Granada TV. Only the chairman.
Alex Bernstein, has any past con-
nection with television — he was
joint managing director some years
ago — and Granada producers
worry that no one will resist when
pressure to cut still more puts
Granada's place as a
production house at
risk.

They also Fear Mr
Allen's role in the
same debate within
the new’ ITV' net-
work. committees,
peopled by strong
and experienced
personalities such as
LWTs Greg Dyke,
whose pro- market
views are well
known. Mr Allen
denies he will -turn
Granada from a
major production
source into another
publisher broadcast-
er. cutting minimal-
ist deals with
independents for
maximally commer-
cial programmes,
with none of the
corporate stake in
their prestige that
the company has
now:

Ironically, it was Mr Quinn and
Mr Plowright who prepared the
ground by dividing Granada into
separate cost centres of broadcast-
ing. production and sales — just as
Leslie Hill did before cutting the
famously inefficient workforce at
Central. This exposes internal costs
to those of outside suppliers and
makes ii easier to sack people when
the comparison proves negative.

Formerly, such threats to any
staff were met by shuttin g down the
transmitter. Now the broadcasters
just thank the lord that they are not

in the firing line. [As Mr Hill put it.
you call yourselves commercial
television but don't act like ii. He
made Central so efficient that its
franchise bid was unopposed, al-
lowing him to bid just £2,000 to
secure ihe future of those employees
that remain.)

To i he market, television is just

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The clanger is
that Charles
Allen’s likely
changes will
mean further
destabilisation

their mark in one company, re-
structure iL maximise profits and
move on. For Granada production
staff, the danger is that Mr Allen s
likely changes will mean further
destabilisation and more cuts —
hardly the climate for good
programming.

If Mr Allen is obliged in increase
profit's first second and third, then
quality television will have lost yet
another champion at a time when
they are sorely needed. By the time
Mr Allen is 42. will Granada still
warn to make 42 Up?

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T he magazine publish-
ing business does not
often get itself in a
tizzy over matters of editorial
ethics. It usually finds that
men and women of like mind
can sort out these tittle irrita-
tions without a lot of noisy
fuss and bother.

But currently threatening
the (deceptively) smooth exte-
rior of relationships between
editors and publishers is the
question of ‘the ethics of
advertorials. The Periodical
Publishers Association (PPA)
has set up a working party to
try to agree a code of practice.
So have the editors, and so
have the PRs. who practically
invented the genre. A coali-
tion like this means business
— and a real concern.

Call it what you like —
"advertisement promotion",
“special promotion” — the
advertorial sits rather uncom-
fortably somewhere between
above-the-Iine advertising
(pages paid for by the adver-
tisers. who put on them what
they like, within reason and
the law’) and editorial (pages
paid for by the reader and,
indirectly the advertiser, on
which the editor puts any-
thing he or she likes, within
reason and the law).

Advertorials are, in effect.
ediioriaJ paid for by the
advertiser, and this makes
the editors edgy. Both the
publishers and the editors
can give you a million good
reasons why advertorials are
increasing. Straightforward
display advertising is rarely
beamed directly at the read-
ership of a particular maga-
zine: ii needs to be bland
enough to sit in any media
environment. On the other
hand an advertorial, styted as
it often is by the editorial staff
of the host title, can take on
the environment and tone or
voice of the magazine.

As Jill Churchill of Red-
wood Publishing, a member
of tin? British Society _ or
Magazine Editorc working
party on advertorials, says*-

so

Some display advertising is

0 boring, any kind of
advertorial is preferable."
The American media maga-
zine Folio calls advertorials
"the look that fits”, but Amer-
ican editors have a ferocious
code that prohibits any staff
journalist writing, designing
or taking pictures for an
advertorial.

They have been a fact of
magazine life for many years.

1 remember in the late 1 960s
doing a 1 6-page supplement
sponsored by
six big-name
manufacturers
that ended with
135 men in
hand-to-hand
combat over
how they
thought their
products should
look.

But you know
the sort of thing
I am talking
about You turn
to four pages of
luscious, if rath-
er highly col-
oured, cookery
pictures. Some-
thing jars a little; linking in
the foreground is a bottle of
branded brown sauce; a flac-
cid' slice of ham is rolled
around a piece of obviously
tinned asparagus. None of it
is quite in the style of the rest
of the editorial. And then you
read the recipes. The list of
ingredients indudes branded
pork luncheon meat, brand-
ed cheese sauce mix. and
branded potato crisp top-
ping. AH items that you jusr
know the cookery editor
would eat with ground glass
rather than include in her
own recipes. You turn back to
the beginning and see the
words “advertisement pro-
motion". There you have it
The space is paid for. And the
reason the picture isn’t quite
like editorial may be because
the diem was on the photo-
graphic shoot insisting that
the product took centre stage.

COVER STORY

Jane Reed

The current ethical debate
in the industry is prompted
by the increasing use of the
advertorial, estimated to be 3
and 5 per cent of the total
advertising in consumer
magazines. Four years ago
Bile magazine ran 40 pages
a year, now it runs 150. Over
at the National Magazine Co
(publishers of Cosmopolitan.
She, Good Housekeeping.
Company and others) Debra
Sharron," the corporate pro-
motions manager, says that
this year they
are doing 150
more pages this
year than last
across all titles.

The increase
in advertorial is
a result of the
recession. "The
advertising
pound has to
stretch further,”
Ms Sharron
says. “While a
display ad can
give an impres-
sion of the prod-
uct, advertorial
can educate the
reader in depth
about it, and there is the
implied editorial endorse-
ment”

And editorial endorsement
is what makes most editors
hiss between their teeth. Just
how far do they have to bend
over backwards to get the
advertising pound? Ms
Sharron, like her editors, has
some niggling concerns
about the question of editori-
al integrity in the increasing
use of advertorials. Having
sat on the PPA working party
she is framing a research
project to provide better feed-
back from the reader “We
know the reader is media-
literate. and by and large
likes and understands the
position of advertorials, but I
fear saturation could bring a
negative response."

Henry van Wyk, advertise-
ment director of Reader's
Digest, who chairs the PPA

working party, agrees. He
wants to see very dear label-
ling in the same type size as is
used elsewhere in sign-
posting the magazine, and
some restriction on the num-
ber of advertorials per issue.

Unlike their American
counterparts, most British
editors take a positive ap-
proach. preferring to get
involved in the advertorial
from the beginning. "We
work dosely with the editorial
teams on our magazines and
have turned away adver-
torials for products that they
simply could not endorse,”
Ms Sharron says.

The whole concept of edito-
rial endorsement has come a
long way. Twenty years ago
Woman would not publish
even the brand names of the
items shown in the magazine
because such a thing would
be seen as advertising. You
had to write in for derails of
where to find the dress shown
on page five. The reader was
maddeningly incon-
venienced. hut editorial in-
tegrity was preserved.

I subscribe to the view that
advertising is an essential
part of the manufacturing
cycle and that good, appro-
priate advertising adds to the
value of any magazine. And
when the chips are down,
name me something other
than advertising that pays for
free speech and the increas-
ing diversity of the press
cover prices never will.

However, most consumer
titles are bought for the
editorial, not the advertising.
Readers pay for an unbiased
editorial opinion and back-
ground explanation on any-
thing from the sterling crisis
to the best wafer filter.

F am sceptical about claims
that readers understand the
constraints of editorial free-
dom within the production of
an advertorial Carried to its
logical conclusion, a maga-
zine containing only ‘‘editori-
aT paid for by the advertisers
cannot be far away.

Bullish in a bare market

The Economist is
changing just
enough to
maintain its lead
in a global
field of one

T en years ago, ales of
The Economist hovered
around the 200.000
marie. As recently as 1989 its
worldwide circulation was
393,000. Now, according to
its latest ABC figures, for the
six months to June, it has
topped half a million for the
fust time.

Sir John Harvey-Jones, the
chairman of the newspaper (as
the weekly magazine insists on
calling itself) believes it can
grow still further. Rupert Pen-
nant-Rea, the editor, is more
modest in his Forecast: "I don’t
want to attach great signifi-
cance to the 500.000 mark. I
don’t know what our satura-
tion point really is. When
you're operating in die inter-
national market, there is no
obvious analogue.”

North America is still the
bedrock of the magazine's
commercial stability, with
220.000 customers, bur Brit-
ish and Irish sales breached
the 100,000 mark for the first
time. However, the greatest
circulation rise came from
continental Europe — up 16.5
per cent to 1 1 1,000 in the past
year.

The Economist is nothing if
not an international publica-
tion. Its undoubted worldwide
influence is reflected in the
confidence of the editorial
staff. The amiable Mr Pen-
nant-Rea was back last week-
end from a lightning trip to
the Far East where he added

another spoke to his paper's
global wheel: from next month
The Economist will begin
printing in Hong Kong, its
sixth site after Britain, Hol-
land, Switzerland, the United
States and Singapore.

The first trained economist
in 30 yeans to haw the job. Mr
Pennant-Rea has made what
he calls “incremental
changes" to an already highly
successful product. He has
softened some of the edges,
given it a more centrist polit-
ical stance. The paper was
redesigned
shortly after
he took over
in 1986; eco-
type, its new
type-face, is
shortly to go
on the

market.

Eariier this
year, sports
coverage was
added to the
arts and
books section
at the back of
the paper,
giving it a

more rounded and contempo-
rary “leisure” feel.

Mr Pennant-Rea has a few
more gradual changes up his
sleeve for the autumn. Reflect-
ing the demands of his peripa-
tetic readers, he intends to add
a digest of world news to the
potted briefs which precede
the Britain and Business sec-
tions. and to publish the whole
as a more reader-friendly sec-
tion ai the front of the paper.

He has made an interesting
new appointment to replace
Andrew Marr as political edi-
tor. Xan Smi-
ley, the Sun-
day Tele-
graph's
Washington
correspon-
dent, is better
known in Af-
rica's trouble
spots than
the corridors
of Westmin-
ster. The
paper's one-
man office in
Bonn will be
replaced by a
two-man op-

eration in Beriin. covering
eastern Europe.

Owned jointly by the Finan-
cial Times and prominent city
families such as the Roth-
schilds, The Economist has a
board of outside trustees,
whith the power to hire and
fire the editor. “Simplify, then
exaggerate,” was the journalis-
tic aphorism of Geoffrey
Crowther. The Economist's
editor of the 1950s. and that
could apply equally well to the
paper's business strategy.

In the financial year to
March it generated revenues
of £60 million and profits of
£10.4 million, slightly down
on 1990-1. David Gordon,
the chief executive, who was
once a journalist on the paper,
attributes this hiccup to a
decision to invest in advertis-
ing and promotion, because
this was having a significant
effect on circulation.

’’We take the view that our
circulation round the world
gives us a competitive advan-
tage.” says Mr Gordon, who
feels that promotional spend-
ing attracts advertising (The
Economist's ad revenue for
1992 is already up on Iasi
year). In keeping with this
thinking, a series of typically
assertive Economist advertise-
ments started running on
Channel 4 last weekend.

77ie Fcwio/msf is part of a
tightly run group including
the Economist Intelligence
Unit, which provides business
information to corporate us-
ers. The EIU’s subsidiary
moniker. Business Interna-
tional. is being phased out
next month.

Acquisitions are carefully
thought ouc a bid for the
Lloyd’s List publishing group
fell through last year, but two
purchases — in Britain and the
United States — are currently
under consideration.

Andrew Lycett

The Economist, centrist

When Maastricht went missing

FRENCH eagerness to swot
up on the Maastricht treaty
before that country’s referen-
dum has rekindled accusa-
tions that British voters were
denied the same chance of a
good read before the general
election.

Last April official copies of
the treaty were as scarce in
Britain as the Chancellor’s
green shoots of recovery,
which prompted two Euro-
sceptics to publish their own.
Their version, whimsically en-
titled The Unseen Treaty, has
sold nearly 4,000 copies and a
second print run is planned.
Its success, they say. rein-
forces their charge that the
release of the text in Britain
was deliberately delayed, or
that the Foreign Office tack-
led the project at its normal
pace — which, they say,
amounts to the same thing.

Two official editions of the
treaty are now available in
Britain: the command paper
which was not published by
Her Majesty’s Stationery Of-
fice (HMSOl until May 7, and
the EC issue, which was
withdrawn before the British

Why the text of a February treaty
did not reach Britons for months

election because the word
"ecu" was incorrectly spelt.

The Unseen Treaty, which
merely presents the text
signed in February, as do the
other two, is the work of
Susan Nelson, who fought
Oxford West and Abingdon
for the Anti-Federalist League
in the election, and her agent
David Pollard.

Unable to find a copy of the
treaty's text in the run-up to
the general election. Mr Pol-
lard rang the EC’s Office for
Official Publications in Brus-
sels. He says David Perry, the
head of co-edition and copy-
right, told him that the Ger-
mans were “making a stink”
because "ecu" was printed in
lower case rather titan capital
letters. “He said the copies
were in a warehouse waiting
to be pulped or amended,”
Mr Pollard says.

Ten days before polling, a
photocopy of a Foreign Office
text of the treaty found its way

to M s Nelson. ” We decided to
publish the treaty ourselves."
Mr Pollard says.

They ran off an initial 100
copies, which the Freedom
Association snapped up. By
the end of Apnl when the
official versions had still not
appeared, they derided to risk
a 4,000 print run. This went
on rale at £2.95. just enough
to cover production costs. The
HMSO edition came out a
week-later, priced £13.30.

Mr Perry admits that the
ECs edition of the treaty was
withdrawn before the elec-
tion, following the German
ecu protests. Copies had been
awaiting distribution in the
HMSO warehouse in south
London. "We told them to
stop selling the treaty because
we had to send a corrigen-
dum," Mr Perry says. ‘The
suggestion that it wasn't
available in the UK for polit-
ical reasons is tripe.”

Mike Gigg. an HMSO

spokesman, said that its own
version could not be pub-
lished untfl it was presented
to Parliament which reas-
sembled on May 6. “That's
the procedure with command
papers. It was actually ready
to go some weeks earlier."

Bernard Birchmore. a
member of the Foreign Office
treaty section staff, says: "We
got the original copy from
Brussels and edited it It's all
done on paper. We are not
computerised yet We sent it
to HMSO for proof reading
and they then sent it back to
the treaty section for full
proofing. It then went back to
the Foreign Office’s main EC
department for checking, and
finally back to HMSO."

According to a Foreign Of-
fice spokeswoman members
of the public could have rung
fora photocopy of the treaty if
they had wanted to read one
before the election. "But it
wasn't something that we
announced, because we were
waiting for it to be printed
property."

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ALAN WELLER

Widget Finn
considers the
balance between
satisfaction and
remuneration
in charity work

houJd the buzz hum
your job compensate
for a low salary or lack
of fringe benefits? In-
creasing professionalism and
the need for good staff has
brought salary restructuring to
many voluntary organisations.

On average the highest-paid
charity staff receive 79 percent
of their business counterparts’
salaries, says a survey by
Charity Recruitment. Volun-
tary bixlies. however, are as
diverse as commercial com-
panies. ranging from big org-
anisations with turnovers
equivalent to those of large
corporations, to charities with
a handful of paid staff and an
unpredictable income.

Neil Wyatt's salary depends
on subscriptions from the
4.500 members of the War-
wickshire Nature Conservancy
Trust, which has an annual
£500.000 turnover. As the
trust's reserves manager he
cams about Ell. 000. rather
more, he admits, than senior
people in some other conserva-
tion organisations.

Mr Wyatt surveyed pay and
conditions for the staff associ-
ation of the UK's 48 wildlife
trusts. Salaries in some were
less than £5.000 and many
had no career structure or
terms of employment. He says:
“Conservation charities often
employ staff almost as an
extension of their volunteer
network. Many people in their
mid 20s develop their skills in
a conservation trust and are
poached by ecological consul-
tancies or a larger body, such
as the Countryside Commis-
sion. which may have more
competitive salaries."

David Sowter, the market-

business are irrelevant.
“Matching the salary of the
chief executive of a medium-
sized commercial business and
that of somebody running a
charity for the homeless is
about as meaningful as com-
paring it with Mother There-
sa's salary," he says. “Often it
would be more appropriate to

compare voluntary sector pay
with that in teaching, nursing
or local government "

The Cancer Research Cam-
paign linked salaries to civil
service rates in 197S, when
they were low compared with
private sector pay. In recent
years the gap has narrowed.
Other charities use university

Earning credibility. “Some of our staff are internationally known." says Anne Weyman, of the National Children's Bureau

ing director For Trebor.
Nabisco's grocery division,
had other priorities than sala-
ry. Feeling at the age of 50 that
there was more to life than
biscuits, he exchanged his
£50.000 income for a salary on
a more modest academic scale
to set up Cambridge Universi-
ty's fund-raising campaign.
When the contract ended he
found salaries for senior ap-
peals directors varied from
£22.000 to £35,000.

He is now deputy appeals
director at Barn aid os. The
charity has a £65.8 million
annual income and derides its
senior salaries by job evalua-
tion and comparison with
parallel jobs in charities of a
similar size. The larger the
charity. M r Sowter admits, the
more able it is to match
oommerriaJ salaries.

Sam Osmond, the general
manager of the recruitment
firm Charity Appointments,
says comparisons between
charity salaries and those in

VOLUNTARY SECTOR SALARY SURVEY
byCRCharity Recnirtme^t r

Chief executive of
charity with income:

LQ

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UQ

£1m-£3m

23.685

29,450

34.000

£3m-£10m

30.695

35,040

39,900

£10m-E25m

33.048

40.525

42,411

Director/head function:
E1m-£3m

19,900

2435

25.430

£3m-£10m

23,462

27.308

29.678

£10m-£25m

23,600

30,000

33,437

Functional manager.
£1m-E3m

14,940

16,625

19.110

£3m-£10m

14,744

20,077

21,000

£10m-£25m

16,419

22.352

23.597

LQ; 25 per cent earn this figure or leas; 7S par cant earn this or more
M: MWtfle^jf-maricet figure

UQ: 75 per cent earn this figiro or less: 25 per cere earn rhb or more

or local government salaries as
a marker.

Charity work can confer
credibility, says Anne Wey-
man, the public affairs director
for the National Children's
Bureau. She says: “We have a
number of staff, such as the
director of our early childhood
unit and the research director,
who have become internation-
ally known in their own field."

Mr Sowter says self-esteem
is also an important intangible
benefit. However. Melinda
Letts, the director of the Nat-
ional Asthma Campaign,
gives a warning: “It is no good
thinking you will get such a
buzz, out of working for a good
cause that nothing else wall
matter. The fact that you are
getting a warm glow will not
pay the bills.”

• Details: Charity Appointments.
3 Spital Yard, Bishopsgate,
London El 6AQ (071-247 45021;
Charity Recruitment. 40 Rosebery
Avenue, London EC I R 4RN (0 71-
833 0770)

Getting it right
at the town hall

Local control accountability and participation are
the aims of the new shake-up, Geoffrey Filkin writes

L ocal government still
matters to people. It
touches us all in ways
ranging from child protec-
tion to street cleaning. In
changing the structure of
local government — as a
commission has just been set
up to do in England — we
must get it right
The review, being carried
out differently In Wales and
Scotland will affect how
services are delivered to more
than 30 million people. In
England, the Local Govern-
ment Commission's job is to
produce a structure that is
acceptable to the public and
Parliament and workable for
many years:

Getting it right for the
1990s is difficult enough.
Gening it right for the next
40 years is much more
problematic. The danger
would be to concentrate on
short-term issues.

Certainly, the commission
should not concentrate too
much on present central and
local government policies,
services or management
methods, as these will cer-
tainly change radically in the
next 20 years.

The same applies to per-
sonalities. A council's good
or bad presentation to the
commission should not in-
fluence derisions as these
people will not be there in
ten years. Simflariy. al-
though shedding a tier of
local government will save
money long-term, caution is
needed about the accuracy of
savings daimed under other
options. So whai should
dominate the commission’s
thinking?

First, localry matters. Peo-
ple's sense of place and
community must be the
foundation. If all areas'
needs were the same, func-

tions could be tun from
Whitehall. However, people
must have local control over
their locality in local matters.
Locality and community are
complex ideas but for most
people the area around
home or work is the most
important and local govern-
ment must relate to this.

Improving accountability
should be the second aim.
The low turnout in British
local elections — much lower

Filkin: eye on the future

than in many other Euro-
pean countries — is serious.
The new structure should
build on accountability,
above aD by making it obvi-
ous who gives what service.
This is why many believe in
unitary local government.

The incoming authorities
must make opportunities for
citizens to participate. People
expect to have their say in
important local issues. Much
more than this will be achiev-
able ff more decisions are
taken locally and by councils

that consult and work with
the public.

This leads to the third
issue, the concept of the
“enabling authority". En-
abling means listening and
developing strategies and
services in partnership with
load businesses, groups and
voluntary bodies. This kind
of liaison is much simpler for
a unitary council whatever
its size.

The commission will try to
ensure that the new structure
helps to achieve the Citizen's
Charter. Reducing the levels
of local government will help
the public to know where to
go for services or redress.

Finally, the commission
should be flexible about the
size of councils. Compulsory
competitive tendering has
meant that authorities can
deliver services through con-
tract as well as from in-house
departments. The commis-
sion can therefore considera
wide range of sizes.

For instance. David Hunt,
the Welsh secretary, is back-
ing an all-purpose authority
for Meirionnydd with a pop-
ulation of only 32,000. Past
reorganisations have. I con-
tend. been wrongly dominat-
ed by academic arguments
about service supply being
related to scale. They; have
given too little attention to
die public's wishes.

The measure of the oonv
mission's success will, like
good wine, be judged in ten
or 20 years' time if the
reorganisation is seen to
have improved public ser-
vices. Local government it-
self also has to make a
success of the new authori-
ties, and this is the biggest
challenge of all

• The author is the secretary >\f
the Association of District
Councils.

PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS

The Paymaster General’s Office encompasses three main business areas. These are:

• Banting - the maintaining of accounts and provision of banking services for public sector bodies.
9 Pensions - the administration and payment of approximately li million public service pensions.
9 Apex - the accumulation of financial statistics for the Treasury.

From April 1st 1993. the PGO assumes Executive Agency status under the Government's 'Next
Steps' initiative.

This appointment assumes full responsibility for leading and directing the PGO at a key stage in
its development.

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The PGO aims to implement strategic plans designed to achieve a Total Quality Management
approach in a more commercially orientated business environment With the support of 3 Senior
Directors and 9 Managers, you will oversee the implementation and achievement of all corporate policy
and operational goals.

The Agency has approximately 864 staff and an annual budget of £25 million. An extensive remit
will enable you to maximise productivity, quality of service and unit con efficiency. To achieve tins
your business acumen and analytical skills must be 1st class. You should also be totally committed to
the principles of team building and staff training and development.

The resulting launch of Executive Agency status therefore makes it imperative that you possess
the persuasive powers and presence to manage change, encouraging new working practices and
procedures, including pursuing market testing of services. A good standard of computer literacy is
imperative to oversee the introduction of major new computer systems, designed to support this
period of change and longer term business objectives.

Well developed communication and interpersonal skills are necessary as you will be operating at
the highest levels, including liaising with customers and reporting directly to the appropriate Treasury
Minister. As the Accounting Officer for the Agency, you will also deal with the National Audit Office
and Public Accounts Committee on all matters relating to finance and value for money to the taxpayer.

We are seeking appficarions from high calibre professionals, capable of strategic evaluation, with
an outstanding track record of senior managerial success m an IT led business environment of at least
500 personnel. Banking or pension administration experience would be preferred. You must also be
able to demonstrate a good record of academic achievement

The appointment will be initially for a term of 3 years widi the possibility of extension, subject
to performance.

Salary scale will be up to £39,000pa. (currently under review, more may be available for
candidates with exceptional qualifications or experience) plus performance related pay linked to
performance against agency targets. Benefits will include a non contributory pension scheme and annual
leave allowance of 6 weeks. Relocation assistance will be provided, if appropriate.

For further detafis and an app li c at ion form
(to be warned by Ind Oraber 1991), write to:

Rwutawati & Assessment Services, Afencon Ink,

Basnproke, Hampshire RG2I IJB or telephone
Buf$ufce (0256) 46SS5I. £k (0256) S4&0.

Please quote reference B>'l663ft3.

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PAYMASTER GENERAL'S OFFICE

RIVER THAMES FESTIVAL

The London Council for Sport and Recreation and The London Arts Board seek two high calibre
professionals to develop the River Thames Festival planned for 1994. Both assignments are fixed for a period
of six months and are offered on a consultancy basis.

Project Manager

is required to develop a 1-3 week programme covering the arts, sport, recreation and environmental projects,
working with organisations in the capital. The successful candidate will have experience of working in at least
one of these fields at Festival Director or senior programming level and have understanding of London
government Flair and imagination are essential. The fee is £20,000 for the six month contract

Applications for the Project Manager should be submitted by 2 October with interviews on 9 October.

Business Development Manager

is required to raise core and project funding for the Festival from the public and private sectors. The
successful candidate will have a proven track record developing business relationships' in at least one of the
areas relevant to the Festival. The fee is £18,000 for the six month contract

Applications for the Business Development Manager should be submitted by 9 October with interviews on 19
October.

For further details contact Robert Gordon Clark, London Arts Board, 071 240 1313, or Andy Sutch, London
Council for Sport and Recreation, on 081 778 8600.

Application forms can be ordered from Ref Thames Festival TMN, The London Arts Board, Elme House, 133
Long Acre, London WC2E 9AF. Telephone 071 240 1313. (Administration)

LONDON

ARTS BOARD

GORDONSTOUN SCHOOL

CONTROLLER

and Secretary ca the Board

The Governors invite applications for the lemor

financial and administrative pent ai GonJonswun
and Ihe independent prep. School, Abcrlour House,
on (he retirement of G j Barr in laic 1993- Salary
and benefits negotiable. Detached house available.
Details may be obtained from:

Tbe Controller. Gordonswun School, Elgin, Moray
IV30 2RF. Tel: 03*3 830266 Fas 0343 830074

THE«ili&nMES

PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPEARS
EVERY TUESDAY
TO ADVERTISE IN THIS SECTION TELEPHONE

071-481 4481 OR
FAX: 071-481 9313

as:

Director of Fundraising

Sight Savers are committed to preventing blindness, restoring sight and easing the
personal tragedy of blindness through education and training. Over 40 years' work
In developing countries has placed us at the forefront of the field in the UK voluntary
sector, and we are a major partner in collaborative programmes worldwide. Income
for 1992 will exceed £8 million. Headquarters are located at Haywards Heath.

THE POSITION

Reports 10 the Executive Director.

^'Responsible for developing revenue fundraising
strategy. Manage and motivate c.30 people in
Direct Marketing, Corporate and Regional
fundraising, including major gifts, legacies, grants
and trading.

•g* Review and reform activities to meet new
challenges and opportunities.

OKey task 10 provide focus, set clear team
objectives and well defined fundraising goals.

QUAUHCATJONS

-O Experience in fundraising preferred but candidates
able to demonstrate a high level of achievement
in the commercial sector will be considered.

O Proven management skills, graduate calibre intellect
and commitment to Sight Savers’ objectives.

^Decision maker with stature and outstanding
interpersonal and communication skills.

Please write, enclosing fell cv. Ref SL34&1
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develop services nationally gad regionally.

^ c ? nunitaKa,t to °nr objectives, an oatstanding track record
Wropnatei to our needs and management experience. Essential personal qualities
are tact and enthusiasm combined with excdknt presentation «nn.

Please send a feO CV in confidence to:

DDys Daws. Chair.

The Cb3d PSychatfcerapy Tna,
cfo TlMK, The Tavistock Centre,

120 Bdsize Lane, London. NW3 5BA

Closing Date 6th October 1992.

DIRECTOR OF HMS BELFAST

DIRECTOR OF RESOURCES

Salisbury C.£26-£34,000 (under review)

The Rural Development Commission is the
government agency concerned with the well-being
of the people who live and work in the English
countryside. It has 350 staff in some 25 offices
and a budget approaching £40 million:

We wish to recruit a Director of Resources to join
our small senior management team. The post
reports directly to the Chief Executive and is
supported by two senior managers in charge of
personnel and finance.

extending performance related pay, updating the
training strategy and leading a review of the
Commission's management information strategy.

The Commission is looking for someone with a
high level of relevant .knowledge and recent
eperience of financial or personnel management
and at least some familiarity with the other held,
inter-personal skills, dynamism and creativity
are also essential.

The key responsibilities of the job are developing
and implementing effective human resource
strategies and ensuring sound financial
management The successful
applicant will face a number

For further infonsatioD and an application
form contact Julia Kaynes, Personnel Branch,
Rural Development Commission, 141 Castle
llldlllriai -cytr Street Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 3TP, or
sful *V telephone 0722 336255 or fax

0722 332769.

manpower planning system,

_ COMMISSION ■ is 2 October 1991

The Cmaasoom aims to be aa equal opportunities employer aad wricoaes appBeafoss ton aS section ot the ammonfly.

MANAGER

ADMINISTRATION

THE CROMWELL HOSPITAL,
LONDON, SWS OTl)

SALARY c £40,000 PLUS BENEFITS

A dynamic and successful manager required to administer
non-clinicai areas of the hospital. Inclusive within the
responsibilities will be Project management in the ongoing
hospital development programme.

You will be responsible to the Chief Executive Officer.

Please send an updated C.V. with a photograph to:

Miss J. Lancon
The Cromwell Hospital
Cromwell Road
London. SW5 OTU

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A branch of the Imperial War Museum
The 10,500 ton Second World War cruiser HMS Bef&st, moored on
the River Thames opposite the.Tower of London, is Europe’s largest
preserved warship, sole survivor of the Royal Navy's big gun ships
and, since 1971 , one of London’s leading tourist attractions with over
200,000 visitors a year.

The Director of HMS Belfast is responsible for the overall
management ofthe Ship, herpreservaiion, presentation and promotion,
for the sendees offered to visitors onboard, and for her staff and
financial resources. A key aim of the post, which falls vacant on 1
February 1993, isto increase attendance and income by improving the
quality of displays and services and through effective marketing and
fund-raising.

Candidates for this important post should be under 55 and have a
significant record of achievement, in a senior position, in the
management of major museum, heritage or related attractions or
other professional skills and experience relevant to the needs of the
post Service in the Royal Navy would be an advantage but is not
essential.

The salary scale for this post is £29,569 - £37,928 with the
opportunity of performance related pay up to £44,478 and is under
review. Other benefits include five weeks annual leave, a non-
contributory pension scheme, and interest-tree season ticket loans.
impcrialvku For an application form and further details please
write or telephone toThePersonnelOfftcer s hnperiai
War Museum, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ.
Telephone 071-416 5237 (answerphone) or
fax 071-416 5374.

tkfM

MUSEUM

The Imperial War Museum is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

HEAD OF CHILD
PROTECTION RESEAR

LONDON £27,543 - £29,679

I

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2

This is an opportunity to unit develop national research initiatives at

the f or efro nt of child protection and cfaDd abase prevention. The position
also tiie NSPCC library «<wi info rm at ion service for internal

and external users. In addition to acting as a consultant for Regional
initiatives, you will manage a team of professional researchers and develop
Jinks with agencies, academic institutions and grant givers. The re se ar c h
function forms part of the public policy department and will work closely with
policy development, child protection training, communications functions and the
NSPCC Child Preelection Helpline.

Essential qualities are:-

• Experience of managing staff

g Understanding of children* needs and right*

• Knowledge of policy and practice issues affecting child protection and child abuse prevention

• Experience of manag ing research projects

• Strong in terpersonal skin for giant seeking and ne tworki ng

INTERESTED? For an application form and further details about this post, please send a large 1st class S.AJL to Sally
Lawson, Personnel Department NSPCC, 67 Saffron Hill, London EC1N 8RS or telephone 071-831 3938 (24 hr
answerphone) quoting ref PPD/3

nosing date fix- COMPLETED applications 5.10.92.

The NSPCC is committed to
Equal Opportunities .

NSPCC

§

TOWN CENTRE MANAGER

Join the team that takes Eastbourne
towards the next century

Up to £22,596

Two year fixed term contract

East bourne is an ambitious seaside town It aims to
be a quality resort with a thriving economy well into
the next century.

As the 'champion* of the town centre you will be the
driving force behind the management, maintenance
and enjoyment of the town centre.

The core of your brief will be to co-ordinate the
energies and activities of Council departments, the
business community, retailers and the public. In
promoting Eastbourne as a quality shopping centre,
you will forge dose links with groups, including the
Police, the media and the public
This dearly is a challenge and calls for an exceptional
person. You will be aware of the concerns and
aspirations of public authorities and business and
retailing groups for achieving an attractive and
exciting town centre.

This Initiative is being funded in partnership with the
business community, Marks & Spencer pic and
Boots the Chemist. ‘

For an Informal dis cu ssion, please contact
Carrie Burton. Corporate Projects Manager ok
9 0323415028

For an application form and farther detalk
please contact The Chief Personnel Officer

Town HaD. Crave Road. Eastbourne BN 21 4UC
V 0323 415006

Relocation assistance may be available
Interviews will be held on 6tb-7th October
Closing date 25th September

PERSONAL COLUMN

PUBLIC NOTICES

NO r JCt OF MEETING
nic Annual General Mfftlm of
M cmb n n at Ti** Cremation Soci-
ety of Great Britain wtir oe iwM at
1IW SUU-. Country Gaun Hotel.
Bearrteu Road. WravcctitQ.
Maidstone. Kent. MEM 5AA.
on TXunday. 8Ui October.

1992 at 12 noon
Conte, of the Accounts ore
available- ou amuraUoci
Monona propodiig to attend
■itouM notify Uie Society.

R.N Artaer

jan t wy

LEGAL NOTICES

IN THE MATTER OF
THE IIMSOt-V EMCY ACT 1980
AND IN THE MATTE R OF
SITUl. I MANSFIELD) LIMITED
■ Company No. 14107361
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
pursuant lo Sect too W ot Utr
linokciicy Art 1986 Ihot n Meet
mg of uw Credltora at the above
named Company will be MM at
me centra ot SINGLA * COM-
PANY. Chartered Accountants.
49 Qurcn victoria street.
London. EC4N 4&A on Tuesday.
22nd September 1992 at 2.30
p.m. lor the purpow- men boned
III Section 99 to lOl ol the «U

**r

a un of He- names and
addresses or (he Company Y credi-
tors may be imported free of
marge at the other* ot SINGLA a
COMPANY. 49 Queen VfrtOtU
Street. London. EC4N 4SA.
between to am. and * t>- r "-9 n
mm and Sl«t Septemher 1992.

Creditor! must submit a moot
ot debt betoie toting and. unlem
they surrender l heir security,
secured creditors must vise par-
ticular* ot their *ecurlty and (la

value

Dated this tout day
ot September 1992 _____

BY ORDER bf THE BOARD
A SHAH. DIRECTOR

IN THE MATTER OF

PERMANENT MAGNET

MOTORS PLC
AND IN THE MATTLR OF
THE INSOLVENCY ACT 1 90S
NOTICE tS HEREBY GIVEN
that of a meeting « creditors or
the abatonanted Company con-
visind tinder the prwHIons ot
Section 98 ot the Insolvency Art
IWt and held on 28 Auouf
1992, We. loan Yvoiuie Lem.il.
at Cartel (tarter Winter. Hill
r. Htansolr Hill. London
5LV. and Poul EOrtWet
ot Show*. Cljrevllle
Jtk.'T ewendon street.

London. SSWIV J CP.
tmuxnie.1 Joint Liquidator* ot the
above named Company-
Dim ins ?«h dtiv
«M August 1992.

J Y VLW1I —

He
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Witghl
House.

No 008268 BilPW
IN THF MICH COURT
OF JUSTICE
CHANCERY DIVBiON

IN THE MATTER OF

CXCUJEIIIR

AIRW A« U>1rT H? rur
AND IN THE MATTER OF

AND IN inr. nin
THE COMPANIES ACT198S
NOTICE IS HERESY

IWIU, ra ■ 7T_ TS,*

ihoi a PMJiton woo »" ™
nay ot auuibi

nay ot \uuum * . j T.-

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iot uw iuiuh

ted ik iioi> of me
Ow Abovcitami'd Cwnpom

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C4.58H.OOO lo £50.000
AND NOIICT R» .EVJJi'iS? m
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dRora ” bi heard hct-raj^,

Rewurar Burhle* pi Ihe RtAW

Courts M JW5IK9. s J™id-LO«d?e
WC&A 2LL on WMBBM ****

7th Ocluhei l‘ |a '

*N1 Creditor or S harehold er

an r creono* —

<d ihe wad Comoaiu dCTtnng J®

otwnv I no nufcina otjmOWf

taMIV Umfti-mallan oft hr
. nductitm ot capital «w«W
at Ihe lime of me SL

son or liy Cauitwl lor that

"'S’SSv onne ««

be iuimancd io on,- Nicn ocrson

requiring Ihe “"!* ,21,
uiaUei monuonra

pavnu-iit of me reguuied enarge
(or the same.

DATED mis
ot Septrtnber 1992
EvmlM Welti A HlPd
lO New lull Street

Th-r -"HI •"-* ■ rag>l g3J gt ” 1

LEGAL NOTICES

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT
DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY

In The Matter Of
AMERICAN B10MATER1ALS COBP.
A Vkgha Corporation,

DeWor.

Chapter 11
Case No 87-0/318

NOTICE

TO STOCKHOLDERS OF AMERICAN BfOMATERJALS
CORP. OF LAST DAY FOR FILING PROOFS OF
INTERESTS AND TENDERING STOCK CERTIFICATES
TO Ml STOCKHOLDERS Of MSKAN *HIATBWL5 COW
RUSE TMS H0TCE. AM on OtcMMf A 1967. taelcai BkmthOb Cont (W
-omri Srt 1 WWW pd«qa i« n*d rtwpowr 11 01 nn iio!B#u«saiiB
Cnfc. in re urea Sora iraum m Own. nwia < w Jtwy raeww Ca»«T.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE M He Battaaptcy Cut hat tu tu) an Mtr dra g
Sattma 30. 1966 earAera DaW* MncMed Pen d ftogvenoa (Ttot *

TAKE FURTtO MJTCE that M IMm CttR ly MBrgHn ada ij aM

**« 3. 19E 9Wca WB Oooiw 30m 19IB » ntg *» r Bb

Id He ftoob al Wma H anthrovel amt ctnftau.

REASE T«XE HRTHEH wnCE tha ProBh ol hams an* MM M w/wraans

bnwd»«|i»iBi Wi w d g»»a«wicMaaiKrtiwibi3l(W»i

oaota 30. 1992 n . __

jams. Boon. Pntot 4 Sgta
300 Manor Pat CM S27B
PnocBon. th» Jener OBtiETb
ttmr Amnean B uuu—U Cm. Cbbn Prsmaag
PLEASE TAXE FURTWR NOW* Ml RBCttoMw vto M to Be Pnilfe « Manat rtd
under sax* rarthaan by the dul be t*wer torrt t mm icotra

aiuta amw #■ DWtor. wd «W rw. mi «pw » «* ■»■» hbrea. b»j^«d

u ho mid m Wda ol at Aloml Cba 9 hurra atif-Wt Nn ol RoatgMBMa
PUASE TAKE TURTWfl NOTICE tM 39 raoWtr «nd tdBCM te ,«N j j »

■maul to Jarman. Horn Pe*m 4 Sp»w. 300 AtaanderPaA. ca STTftPnw*. Nv
Jv»y 00543-5270. AUK Anted S. VAAS080. E*l («B| A5Z-0B0B QATH7 Augm 3a»
1W

BY (most or THE UMTS) STATES BANK-

AFTCr COURT

HtWORABLE VWJ.1AM H GPON
UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY JUDGE

,w*son uaoRE. pram 4 sprsn
Apoub h lot Awatop Burghtnh Cm dmm. •

300AJemdyPaLQi5Z7B
MnCMOO. Nte Jawy 08SO-5278
Anr Anna S Mm Eid.

W I Himt- AWmNIMUJ I UT

ADMU>OSTTtATIVE RE CETV ER
PRITCHETT CONTRACTORS
■LONDON! LIMITED
RegUierM number. 9BTB66.
Nolore ot bu&ln«e»r CgNULAL
BULDCRS AND DECORATORS.
Trade clasdflcaUon. !S. Dole of

appotnlmenl Ot admlnhdr m ye

receivers: 2«Ui August .

Nome of person appointing the

administrative receivers:

Boretavs Bonk PK. PHILLIP
ANTHONY ROBERTS * IAN

DAVID HOLLAND J«nl Adnun-

tstrauvr Receivers .otnee holder

nos: 006055 A 0O2346L Address
Cauon Bertman A Partners

Hobson House. 15* Cowr

Street. London WC1E OBJ.

Notice of APPOtnlmenl
Of Ltauktotor

inaanency Rums. 1986
Rule 4.106 HI
In Ok Matter of
Marketing Direct Ud
im Comwitaorv UtmWaiwni
Notice ts hereby tUvon that on
me a&m day of fui*-- 19« Mf
SaUvuvi S^ud. BA, HPA. of ea
MoryFebenc HkN>

WIM SOE. WBO apprtnled L Wul
aator of the abovs-natned
Com para-.

Doled mis 5rd day
of «epretnher 1992
Mr Salman gaud. BA. FUPA.
LlatedtiUM-

notice or AP pqtNT raavr

OF JOINT RECEIVERS

Strongboom LtmlMd

Rradered Number: 2BB19m
rffiTSme: PWrt Mowj*
Nature of Bra lness... .
stoclusu. Trade cMmtrfrauon.

IS, Hale of Appolnimcnt ol
RMrlUR 4 SculrmOM-"

Name of

Rtmrrt*

Retell era: NMvyn U RfR

and Brian L, LaeVy F-C-A. OffICT
Haider Numbers: 2861 and TWS.

EUlot Wmtfc ft Rem

Udsn House 280 Itutbsoury
Bned tendon NW9 oaa

THE INfeOLkTNCYRlA^ 8 1986

RULE 4.106(>)

DohgM HOUdayCraup
tUKT Limned
. in Credlloo" Votunlory
Uaaldauon -

I HEREBY' GIVE NOTICE that I.

r Hacking. LKxnsedJneotvency

pranmoncr. of Stay Wwrt. 8

Baker WreeL Lona ort WlA tPA.

was oppomtrd L lnuM n t or of the

above named company an 7 sen-
lember 1992. All debn and Galnn

should be sent hi me al the above

addren.

All creditors wno nave nor

airew done so are Invited lo

prate iheir debts hi wrttmo to mo.

NO further DUtjnc adwcrtHrmont

ot mvllMsii to provo debts

tirtU be given.

Dated: 8 September 1992
R Hortina. LkiuMMW.

THE INSOLVENCY ACT 1986
WALBROOK PR OPERT Y

COMPANY UMTTCD

COMPANY NUMBER-. 1«^07

NOTICE 8 HEREBY GIVEN
punwani to Section adtll ot the

«m Act that on 2Btb August

1992. Derrick S Woolf and Doytd

H caoert of Levy Gee and Part-

ners. XOO Chalk Form Road.
London NWl BEH woo
appotnwd Join! Administrative

Recetvers of the above namod

Company by Alliance A Leicester

Bunding SOCW.

SERVICES

YOUffO CHELSEA BRIDGE ctub

and school (18-40 age groan).

Tel: Q 7 I ST 3 1666

WANTED

ALL OU OU Paintings * water-
colours wanted. renctmon
Immolertol

071 229 9618

BAR to DFC. lo replace original
now with MnUturt remover*.

Awarded 1944 PFP BC. Please

Rooty to Box no giaa

BftmSH lady late 4tm n/a Bvtng
In USA looking for horae/ftal
MUid - London. Oct-Feb V. ret l-
Obie. EXf rr». OBZO 712873

RETIRED Bank Manager? Intro-

duce me to your nrevloue con-
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Tel 071 323 4480

FOR SALE

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WEDDING
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SURPLUS TO HIRE
BARGAINS FROM £50

Upruub Hire Department
22 OuuUiA Oon Rd London
WC2 Nr Leicester Ba Tube-

071 240 2310

trad. Superb
Open 7 day* a *
oeoo voodoo

tom. Joseph 071 <97 \A07.

0086. CCS ACC

Tel: OTl 706 0363 at 0X6

cobble sett etc.

THE TIMES 1791-19!
tides available. Ready
sanation also M Sundaw
£17.60. Re memb er Wh
608 6323.

buy « sen - Phantom,
us MB. All outer *
events. 071 B39 BB63

MUSICAL

INSTRUMENTS

£346. Tel: OBI 463 0148.

GIFTS

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(EM 19701 pndcsaional

ESTABLISHED 1785

FLATSHARE |

FLATSHARE Urgently reoulrv
good proortHes la Londm Tcla-
Dlwrn now 071 937 7733 1

FULHAM 3rd perm, friendly
dan nrt large F/F doOMg
room £350 pcm 071 736 549«

HAMMERSMITH B/S room.

own barn, rttare KBcbcn la liia-
Mrc directors Vtcurton how,
CH. CHW. bob. ran Prof mala.
CBSnw lad. Trt: OBI 749 0181.

HIGHBURY Prof F N/S lo rtlOTe
two bad reals. Urge roof tab.
£80pw ax bins. Iwl 071 S4S
28000X2219 0*1071 2263207

PARSONS GREEN - 2 rim own
baUt/shwr £86ow/£*5aw.

Bad, Exrt Lax boo 3 mlra
tubo/bus. 071 371 8766

PIMLICO prof F. N/S. Cray 2
bad Pol. 5 ndra Victoria. Own
double- room Waah/MadV.
AvmU mid Oct. £390 pcm. Trt:
FcdcUy (W) CBl 964 2305.

RICHMOND SOW no/ on 1/r. e/e
Omtnrm lo lam rate, suit i*w
N/S. C75ow. 081 940 0379.

CW12 Avail maned, dee tuba ft
BR. own room in large flat.

£?30 pan rxcL 061 676 OfiOg

SW17 N/8 female to share flai.
own room, v.ooae Nntm one
tuba. £60 0 w Inct. 071 628
3351 * 419 (10am-6*imj

| RENTALS j

FIRST CLASS
PROPERTY

Spadom/rampM. Ftrt/houte.

We can hrts> la Bdgrwla.

Harejrt ead. KBrtDgiOn.

W&nblfdcn rad liodiar arega.

Phooe tanow.

Birch & Co

071 734 7432.

THE AMERICAN
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REAL

AMERICAN

SERVICE

071 581 5353

Eli ifc] {

BARBICAN ECS Newly dec 2
bed firt 2 bed rial wim bale
c?70aw Drurv 071 379 4016

CHELSEA - Top Quality bit
deigned sportoua 2 bed flat 2
tun. rorertbm. high cetltnsL
yellow shot sQk drabert latches
all ndgrts Reduced £450-
£360 dw Buroert 071 581 5136

RENTALS

I

RJLHAM 2 prat frtends.
28+ Jut /». lor bedstu. prlv Itae.
own Kb. dose tube. £70 nw
Inc. Tel 071 736 6027

person. SO*-. . n/a- Close tube.
£606 pent U»c. 071 736 6607

=W CLAPP (Management Ser-
vices! Lid Rcuuire properties in
central. aauUl ft west London
areas for waiting applicant*.
Tel: 071-2*3 09-54.

bath 2 recept garaoe ♦ OBP.
South-tacutg point, caeopw.
T«L- 081-466 2166

mod unfurn (ora nae. New klL 6
beds. 2 bam. Oge. Gdn. £S78pw
Long NL 071 4BS 06B1

Oat olook comm gdns. 2 dblc
beds, dale rec Idl/bath £300 pw
non FW Gapp 07 1243 0964

1 bed (UL Chomuna Kteadon-
LIAO pw. TeL 071 573 OQC7

fair. Lono/Short lerm.
rum/onfum EM 1980. Friendly
service Owe Arts 071 936
9612 Properth* urgently reo
Prof valuation service avail

room I tat. sun 1 or 2. own ku
and bath and enL Ot. dose vic-
toria Line. £100 pw all inc. non
smokers. Tel: 071 226 6003.

bed mats 2 bth c/h new renov
£375 pw Tel 071 831 74C6

(Ccnirab. Sums'. 2 larae bees,
sitting room. IdicMa. bathroom
ft irtleL tuny furnished. CH.
wohina machine, ^rdon ft

£660 pom. available IM Octo-
ber 92. lo view Tel: 081 646
6587 eves. 071 272 3879 day

quamy tlals In Epenon Gdnt ft

Cadogm Chare. 071 ggi 5244 i

room. 2 Baltiroam flat lo M.

C1300 pcm. Long lerm let Tel:

071 262 2BAB.

bed IU Sun Bank. £260 pw 071

351 6732 Gavin Cowper ft co

room nal wanted, let floor or

above. £iao pw. 071 224 6Qa6

bed flat with big gdn. 2 raceps. 2

baths, r/f Ul. Fumyunf £365

pw f W CJPP 071 243 0964

with pabo ft oge. v pretty, t/t.
£27QPW. Phono: 0851 369293

+ sop din ■* K e B. £170pw tnd

CH. E3ec. Tel: 071 B28 6177

house. 4/6 beds. 2/3 renK. 2

baihs. attractive garden, ctoso

High SL ft transport. £475 pw.

081 788 8646-

8/C. Flirt. D.bad

lounge. KlL Both. W C. R.lerr

CM. £180 pw. 071 J73 3428.

nai 2 tge recepo. 2 boihs. ff

UL Lift, porter. Comm Odn.

£gS0pw. Tel: 071 684 6004

Duivdeh. £16WW TW Daniel

SmUfi Chartered Surveyors
071 930 6641 Ref BNW

Aflprscirtlve I manual

wanted for 1 bedroomed rial

newly renovated to provide

charming accommodation.
Sunny balcony overtook* open

space. Middles Barons Court

eunm. cisq pw. Please Teie-

pftone 071 371 4749.

recep. Bod/bath/uichenMie.
CH. N/S £196 071 221 6SS6

eee. baih. CH. N/S. £96 071

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axnribmkms rial aDmn us
u meet onr daily numing
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wife the boats and
eqiupQiciil they need.

For U dttofe re kpoo, nonet

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LIFE & TIMES TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 5 1 992

BBC1

6.00 Ceefax (49283) 6-30 Breakfast News (78988047)

9.05 Perfect Strangers. American comedy series (6369202}

9-30 Liberal Democr a ts Conference 92. Live coverage of the
proceedings on day two of the conference in Harrogate
(Continues at 1035) (483 1 8)

10.00 News, regional news and weather (4644467) 10-05 Playdays fs)
(9456405) 1035 Barney. Animation (r) (4647554)

10.35 Liberal Democrats Conference 92 continued. This session
indudes the address by the party president Charles Kennedy. With
News (Ceefax), regional news and weather at 11.00 and 12-00
(82 T 09979) 12.55 Regional News and weather (63267478)

1- 00 One O'Gock News. (Ceefax) Weather (43919)

130 Neighbours. (Ceefax) (s) (43182689) 130 Going For Gold.
General knowledge quiz with European contestants. The question-
master is Henry Kelly <s) (43186405)

2- 15 Film: The Settlement (1 982) starring Bill Kerr. Unusual drama, set

in 1950s Queensland, about a 'small settlement which is
scandalised by a menage a troa between two casual workers and a
woman of easy virtue. Directed by Howard Rubie (535592)

330 Opposites Attract Nature series (r) (3094641 ) 4.00 The Further
Adventures of SupeiTed fr) (89961 1 5) 4.15 Potsworth and Co
(r) (6519080) 435 Hartbeat A new series on better picture
drawing, presented by Tony Hart and Gabnelfe Bradshaw (s)
(8773660)

5.00 Newsround (3707080) 5.10 Grange Hill. Children's drama serial
set in a secondary school (r). (Ceefax) (s) (3463912)

535 Neighbours (r). (Ceefax) (s) (836134). Northern Ireland: Inside
Ulster

6.00 Six O’Gock News with Peter Sissons and Anna Ford. (Ceefax)
Weather (739)

630 Regional News Magazines (689). Northern Ireland: Neighbours

7.00 TeUy Addicts. Television trivia quiz (s) (7554)

730 EastEnders (Ceefax) (s) (573)

8.00 Citizen Smith. Robert Lindsay stars as the Tooting urban guerrilla
Wolfie Smith in John Sullivan's 1970s comedy series (r). (Ceefax)
(2842)

8302 Point 4 Children. Funny, well-observed domestic comedy
following the trials and tribulations of a wife and mother of two,
starring Belinda Lang and Gary Olsen. (Ceefax) (s) (6009)

9.00 Nine O'Gock News with Michael Buerf: (Ceefax) Regional news
and weather (4863)

930 More Specialty Selected Canned Carrot A compilation of Jasper
Carrott's comedy sketches. With Robert Powell, Steve Punt, and
Hugh Dennis. (Ceefax) (s) (309825)

Beyond realism: Joanna Mays as a Carter heroine (10.10pm)

10.10 Omnibus Angela Carter's Curious Room.

• CHOICE: This film was the last piece of work undertaken by the
novelist Angela Carter before her death earlier this year. The strain
of her final illness is evident, yet it refuses to dampen her
mischievous spirit Asked about her rejection of realism, a recurring
theme of the programme, she says: "I write overblown, purple',
self-indulgent prose — and so f-ing what?" Carter is introduced as
one of the most original and influential wnters or our time, a large
claim and one the film hardly substantiates. On the less ambitious
level ol offering a coherent introduction to Carter's work and the
influences which shaped it. this is a model portrait It shows how
cinema images of Dietrich and Garbo aroused a fascination with
the construction of sexual identity which became one of the main
preoccupations of the novels. (Ceefax) (855689). Northern Ireland:
Dilemma

11.00 Film: Point Blank 0 967) starring Lee Marvin. Anqie Dickinson and
Keenan Wynn. John Boorman's gripping American debut about a
gangster who tackles the mob when looking for revenge — and a
fortune in loot — two years after he is double-crossed. (Ceefax)
(34080). Northern Ireland: 11.05 Omnibus 11.5S-1235am
European Soccer Special
1230am Weather (1362595). Ends at 12.35

2.15 BBC 5elect Executive Business Gub (scrambled) (626245) 3.15
TV Edits (2061264). Ends at 4.00

BBC2

6.45 Open University: The "User Friendly" School (6927912). Ends at

7.10

8.00 Breakfast News (92 1 8554)

8.15 Bitten by the Bug. The last in the series looks at the working lives
of insects (r) (9231405) 830 The Italians. A portrait of Giovanna
Mazzoechi. who. at the the age of 30. inherited one of Italy's
biggest publishing empires (r) (10047)

9.00 Daytime on Two. Educational programmes

1.20 Melvin and Maureen's Musk-a-Grams (s) (69244467) 135
Crystal Tipps and Alistair (r) (78657979) 1-40 cross Currents
Community Understanding. For teachers (43164283)

2.00 News and weather (34276573) followed by You and Me (r)
(40825196) 2.15 Getting Through. How Eve Thompson
overcame alcohol and tranquilliser addiction and the fact that her
son was schizophrenic (r) (40838660) 230 Sign Extra. An Open
Space documentary about the Brazilian rain forest adapted for the
hearing impaired frj (950)

3.00 News (Ceefax) and weather (4628283) followed by Country file.
John Craven investigates Britain's gun laws (r) (3742931) 330 In
the Making. The story of a small Yorkshire rope-making company
(r) (5229028) 330 News, regional news and weather (8092283)

4.00 Great Journeys. Billy Bragg and Andy Kershaw discover Bolivia's
1 7th-century silver routes to the Pacific (r). (Ceefax) (6221)

5.00 Spies in the Works. James Garrett investigates how some
people's lives have been ruined by secret vetting (r) (2660)

530 Film 92 wtth Barry Norman. Includes reviews of Unforgiven, A
League o( Their Own and The Hours and the Times (r) (s) (738)

6.00 Film: The Family Jewels (1965). Jerry Lewis plays seven roles in
the typically manic story of a young girl who inherits a fortune and
must decide which of her undes she wants as her guardian.
Directed by Jerry Lewis (15319738)

735 Animation Now. The Legend of Paul Bunyan (409950)

New ways to reading: Dame Marie Gay with pupil (7.50pm)

7.50 Education Special: Goodbye Janet, Goodbye John.

• CHOICE: Amid the latest disquiet about the standard of reading
in British schools comes this timely report on a radical approach
pioneered in New Zealand and about to be introduced here on a
trial basis. Developed by Dame Marie Clay, "reading recovery 1 '
concentrates on the bottom 20 per cent of the dass and gives
children individual coaching on a daily basis from specially- trained
teachers. The results have Been encouraging, both in New Zealand
and in the United States. Only a fraction of the children fail to
respond and the effect has been to reduce the numbers who need
special help later. The introduction of "reading recovery" in Britain
has been hedged around with arguments about cost. The
government has allocated £10 million' for the three-year trial but
allies say this will only scratch the surface (619757)

830 Floyd on Spain. Keith Royd samples the cuisine of the Costa
Blanca induding gypsy stew, roast suckling pig and paella. His thirst
is catered for by a mixture of orange juice, champagne and
Cointreau (Ceefax) (7979)

9.00 The Mary Whrtehouse Experience. Off-beat comedy series
starring David Baddiel, Hugh Dennis, Rob Newman and Steve Punt
(r) (s) (2405)

930 The John Bull Business: Welcome Grange. The last in the series
examines how chanqe-resistant are British companies. (Ceefax)
(307467)

10.10 The Works: The fix. A series celebrating the role of engineering in
modem sodety. This episode strips away the mysteries of
fastenings. (Ceefax) (122405)

1030 Newsnight with Frandne Stock (366405)

11.15 The Late Show. Arts and media magazine (s) (305172)

1135 Weather (122028)

12.00 Open University: Understanding Violence (65448). Ends
1230am

ITV

62)0TV-am (5761467)

935 Win, Lose or Drew. Celebrity game show hasted by Danny Baker
(6365486) 935 Thames News (78351 15)

1030 The Time . - -The Place . . . Topical discussion senes (7192950)
1040 The Morning. Family magazine series (9835757)

12.10 Playbox. Early learning series (r) (5979134)

1230 Lunchtime News. (Grade) Weather (2947863) 1.05 Thames
News (69269776)

1.15 Home and Away. Family drama serial. (Grade) (844991) 1.45 A
Country Practice. Medical drama series (s) (294432)

2.15 Mavis Catches Up With ... In the first of a new series Mavis
Nicholson meets Tom Jones at Cardiff Arms Park (149383)

245 Families. Drama serial (2743298)

3.10 (TN News headlines (4646689) 3.15 Regional News headines
(4638660) 330 The Young Doctors. Drama serial set in an
Australian dty hospital (3741202)

330 Fraggle Rock. The first of a two-part puppet story (4585863)44)5
The Raggy Dofis (s) (6584318) 4.15 Take Off with T- 8 ag
starring Georgina Hale (6535028) AM Children's Ward. Medical
drama set in a large hospital (r). (Orade) (s) (9460825)

5.10 Blockbusters. General knowledge game (9028573)

5A0 Earty Evening News with John Suchet (Orade) Weather
(913955) 535 Thames Help (r) (313134)

6.00 Home and Away (r). (Orade) (405)

630 Thames News (757)

74)0 Emmerdale. Soap set in the Yorkshire Dales. (Orade) (9950)

730 A Gass of Their Own. The last programme in the series about the
difficulties facing parents of grrtea children features 12 -year-old
Alys Cavanagh, an exceptional cellist (641)

84)0 The BfU: A Blind Eye. PCs Stamp and Garfield witness a mugging
but Stamp delays intervening when he sees the mugger being
beaten up by local young vigBantes. it is not until later that he
realises what a mistake he has made. (Orade) (5370)

830 Men Behaving Badly. Comedy series starring Martin Clunes and
Neil Morrissey as bachelor flatmates, with Leslie Ash and Caroline
Quentin as the objects of their desire. (Orade) (s) (4405)

9.00 Boon. Comedy/drama series starring Michael Elphidc as a Midlands
detective and oddjob man. This week he is bewitched by two
beautiful women. With a guest appearance from John Netties of
Bergerac (Orade) (8554)

10.00 News at Ten. (Orade) Weather (19318) 1030 Thames News
(910825)

Victims of 1492? Indian gfris made up for a dance (10.40pm)

10 A 0 Before Columbus: Invasion.

• CHOICE: A three-part series from the anthropological film-
maker Brian Moser looks at the white man's treatment of the
American Indians. Christopher Columbus and his historic voyage
may be a cause for celebration in some quarters but definitely not
among by the people whose language, culture and history have
been suppressed in the 500 years since the Europeans arrived. The
title is misleading. The Indians were indeed there before Columbus
but the programmes are about what happened after him, with the
emphasis on the continued mistreatment of the Indians today.
Tonight's film is about the appropriation of Indian land, a sacred
bond as well as a means of survival, with graphic examples from
Canada, Panama, Brazil and the United States. Michael Wood,
heard but for once unseen, is the narrator. (Orade) (188554)

1 1 .40 Prisoner Cell Block H. Australian drama (301 863)

1230 Video View. The latest releases reviewed (71090)

130 The Equalizer. McCall is at a wedding reception where a guest is
taken hostage. Starring Edward Woo&vard (r) (2737719)

2.10 Donahue. The guests are battered men (3917142)

330 60 Minutes. American news magazine (2971697)

4.10 Sailing. News from the Southampton International Boat Show
(10709535)

4A0 Short Story Theatre: A Movie Start Daughter. A schoolgirl
thinks she is popular only because her father is a film star
(1597622)

530 mi Morning News (53603). Ends at 6.00

CHANNEL 4

6.00 Channel 4 Daily (5769009) 935 Schools (88017497)

124)0 The Munsters <b fw). Classic ghoulish humour (70301 1

1230 Profiles of Nature. The threatened Vancouver Island mannoi tob
hibernates for six months and gorges itself for the remainder or the
year (35844)

14)0 Sesame Street Early-teaming series <r) (30399)

24)0 film: None ShaB Escape <1944, bAv) starring AfexanderKno*.
Solid second world war propaganda drama about a Nazi 9®°®"
brought to trial by the Allies in his home vifiage onthe
German/Pofish border, the scene of his wartime atrocities. Pireciea *
by Andre De Toth (545979) . -Kltllui

335 Yours Sincerely (b/w). A young man vyoos his sweetheart bur me
romance is cut short by the girl's father who tete her to many
money 0703979)

44)0 A Houseful of Plants. Indoor gardening senes presented by Roena
Benjamin and Michael Jordan fr). (Teletext) 070)

430 Countdown. Words and numbers game (s) (554) . .

5.00 CTawshaw Paints on HoGday. The first of a new senes of painting
programmes presented by AJwyn Crawshaw, holidaying m Majorca
(4028)

530 Iff Wishes were Horses. Series foHowing the fortunes of a group
of mixed ability chfidren learning to ride (r) (s) (134)

6.00 Desmond's. Comedy series set in a Peckham, south London,
barber's. Starring Norman Beaton (r)- (Teletext) (937)

630 Roseanne. wisecracking domestic comedy series stamng
Roseanne Arnold and John Goodman (r). (Teletext) (399)

7.00 Channel 4 News. (Teletext) Weather (458757)

730 Comment (667047) „ ,

8.00 The Big Boss. A wildlife documentary about the Cape buffalo,
thought to be one of the most dangerous of the large mammals
that range the African savannah. (Teletext) (3912)

830 Check Out 92. Mike Embley investigates how companies are
tackling credit card fraud (s) (2047)

9.00Gaudl. A documentary profile of the Spanish architect Antonio
Gaudi (6196)

Suburban sisters: Gave Skinner and Jane Horrocks (10.00pm)

10.00 Efim: Life Is Sweet (1990).

• CHOICE: A new season of Film on Four opens with writer-
director Mike Leigh’s much-praised study of a cheerfully chaotic
London family and its residence in face of adversity. Leigh’s
perception of lower-middle dass suburbia is essentially a comic-
pathetic one, a shade patronising but shot through with a likeable
humour. These are ordinary, fallible people who often bring their
troubles upon themselves but usually manage to come up smiling.
The leading players are Mum (Alison Steadman), resourceful and
determined. Dad (Jim Braadbent), in control at work but a twit at
home, and their twin daughters (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks).
The performances are outstanding and the confrontation between
Steadman and Horrocks over the girl's anorexia is a memorably
painful antidote to the general levity. (Teletext) fs) (789283)

1135 Empty Nest Comedy series starring Richard Mulligan as a
widowed medical man firing on the Florida coast (0 (799554)
1Z25am Goya. Spanish-made biographical serial about the life and
times of the Spanish artist. English dialogue O'). (Teletext}
(8729852)

135 film: Mask of Dust (1954. tVw) starring Richard Conte. Banal
drama about a successful racing driver whose dedication to the
sport threatens his marriage. Directed by Terence Fisher (6073516).
Ends at 230

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6.55am Weather

7.00 On Air Andrew McGregor
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9.00 Composer erf the Weelc
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Neville Mamnert L'Hymne du
Panthdon (Chorus of the
French Army, Wind Orchestra
of Les Gardiens de la Paix.
Paris, under Claude
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horn); Aria. Ah I no peines,
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Home, mezzo): Eh qtxxje sure
M 6 dfie. Medee, (Scottish
Opera Chorus and Orchestra
under John Maucen wrth
Josephine Barstow. soprano,
John Treleaven, tenor, Clare
Shearer, mezzo)

102M) Morning Sequence: Haydn
(Ceito Concerto in C): Wolf
(Ganymede, Die Sprode, Die
Bekefirte. Friihfing Oiers Jahr);
Schumann (5ymphony No 1 In
B flat. Spring); Liszt (Petrarch
Sonnet. Pace non trovo:
Luciano Pavarotti): Hindemith
(Symphony. Mathis der Maler)

12.00 Celestial Harmonies (r)

T-OOpm News

12)5 BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra under Matthias
Bamert performs Rossini
(Overture: Semiramide);
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C>: Dvofdk (Symphony No 8 in
G)

23 5 Tippett Plus: The Balanescu
Ouartet performs Beethoven
(Grosse Fuge. Op 133); Gavin
Bryars (Quartet No 2); Tippett
(Quartet No 4); Alan Bush
(Dialectic)

4.05 Brahms: Sonata in F minor.

Op 120 No 1 performed bv
Nicholas Cox. clarinet, and
Vanessa Latarche. piano (r)

*30 Bright as Fire: The composer
and pianist. Mike Westbrook,
talks to Geoffrey Smith

5.00 In Tune: NataBe Wheen’s
selection of muse, news,
interviews and art events

7.45 C o ntrasts , live from the

Queen Elizabeth Had. London.
Andras Sctiltt , piano; Heinz
Holbger. oboe; Aurtte Ntcofet,
flute: Elmar Schmid, darinec
Klaus Thunemann, bassoon;

and Radovan Vbtfcovic, hom
perform Berio (Sequenza VB
for oboe); Bach (Duet in E
minor. BWV 802; Duet in F.
BWV 803); Bern (Four Pieces
for clarinet ana piano. Op 5 Y,
Bach (Duet in G, BWV 804);
Duet in A minor, BWV 805k
Efiot Carter (Inner Song for
oboe); Bach (Three-part
Invention No 9 in f minor.

ering):

Jp2T

Kurtag (Wind Quintet, Op 2)

In the interval at 8^0 The
Disappearing Souh Professor
John Cottingham tSscovers
what Descartes realy said
about the human soul. The
concert continues at 9.10
Bach (FTute Sonata in B minor,
BWV 1030k EWott Carter
(Ouintet for piaio and wind)
9.55 Young Americans;

Generation X Kerry Shale
reads from Douglas
Coupland's novel

10.15 Arvo Fart from the Berlin
FestivaL Tabula Rasa, double
concerto for tvw violins
performed by Chamber
Orchestra of Europe under
Gidon Kremer. violin, with
Tatyana Grfodenko, violin, and
Jun Smirnov, piano

1<L45 Night Waves
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arts magazine, making its
debut tonight, means that
critics comment on what they
have just seen or heard while
sbO collecting their thoughts.
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and against instant judgment
It worked wll enough when
Radio 4’s Kaleidoscope.
employed it But Nfght Waves
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also be interviews and
features. Tonighrs agenda
indudes Alan Rickman's
Hamlet at London's Riverside
Studios and Gifoert Ada? on
the future of the fiterary critic

1130 South American

Discoveries: Orch estral music
from South America. The
wefeh Symphony Orchestra
under Tadaaki Quid performs
Revueltas (Alcandas); VBla-
Lobcs (Piano Concerto No 2f.
Gmastera (Bafiet Estanda,

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VIA DOLOROSA

mm.

The devaluation of the
lira comes against a
background of
economic woes that the

Italian government has
failed to tackle

Lied to tackle
Page 21

FAR AND WIDE

A wide geographical
spread of businesses is
the key to a 9 per cent
profit rise at Morgan
Crucible

Tempos, Rage 20

PUNCTURED

Shares in Tom
Farmer's Kwik-Fit were
on the slide after
interim profits were
almost halved
Page 18

HELP AT HAND

Plans are in hand at
Lloyd's of London for
some form of financial
aid for the hardest-hit
names
Page 19

LAW TIMES

The courts are getting
tough with mortgage
fraudsters, who can
now expect to face a jail
sentence
Page 25

US dollar
1.8937 (-0.0405)

German mark
2.8131 (+0.0250)
Exchange index
91.6 (+0.1)

Bank of England official close (4pm)

FT 30 share
1775.4 (+45.5)

FT-SE 100
2422.1 (+51.2)

New York Dow Jones
3358.12 (+52.42)*
Tokyo Nikkei Avge
18471.40 (+363.71)

London: Bank Base; 10%

3-month Interbank: 1OV10W
3-month etatote bBs: 9 ,, irr9»«>%

U& Prime Rate: 6%

Federal Funds; 3*w%*

3-month Treasury Bite: 2 . 88 - 2 . 86 %*
30-year bonds: SJPa-SIPK*

London:

£318975

E: DM2.8121
£: SwFr2.4865
t FFr9 5775
E-Yen235.43
e. Index: 91.6
ECU: £0720316
E.ECU1 588279

New York:

£$1 8925*

$: DM1 .4855*

$; SwFtI.3155*
&FRS.03S0*

$; Yen 124 23*

$: Index: 60.7
SDR: £0.754274
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BUSIN

TIMES

SPORT

29-32

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1992

BUSINESS EDITOR JOHN BELL

ERM revamp leaves sterling testing floor against lira and puts shares on a rollercoaster

Rate cut helps

ROCKY ROAD TO COMPROMISE

STERLING TO MARK

boost pound

August 26
lamont roles out
devaluation

,-2.85

DM

: of England
i pound heav

jpports pound heavily |

Septembers
UK borrows £7_25bn in
foreign currencies to sell
in support of pound

against mark

August 19

French poBs neck .»:

and neck on ■*--
Maastricht

September 10
Major roles out
sterling devaluation
in any realignment

By George Siveul

August 28

ERM countries role

out early realignment
in joint statement

September 4

Italy raises interest

rates by 1.75%

September 7
Bundesbank dentes it
made new pledge not
to raise interest rates

STERLING gained some
breathing space in the Euro-
pean exchange-rate mecha-
nism yesterday with a rise
against the mark after the
surprise cut in German in-
terest rates and and the
Italian devaluation. But it
immediately tested the floor ■
against the lira.

At the offi cial Bank of
England 4pm dose in
London, the pound was up 2.5
pfennigs against the mark at
DM2.8131 and 4.05 cents
down against the dollar at
$1.8937. In lunchtime New
York trading, the pound stood
at DM2.8092 and $1.8920.

But by yesterday's dose, the
lira had shot to the top of the
ERM while the po und re-
mained at the bottom. Foreign
exchange dealers said they
detected intervention by the
Bank of England and the
Bank of Italy to maintain the
cross rate within the ERM
parity rates.

Before the Bank of England
borrowed £7.25 billion of for-
eign exchange ten days ago to
help support the pound, ster-
ling had been testing the $2
level and the dollar had been
down to DM 1.38. Yesterday
in London, the dollar stood at
DM1.4885. up from
DM1 .4435 on the day.

Markets were generally dis-
appointed. however, at the
German interest rate cuts. The
lombard rate, the emergency
rate charged by the
Bundesbank to lend to com-
mercial banks. feO by only
0.25 per cent to 9.5 per cent
and the discount rate charged
for normal loans to the bank-
ing system feD by only 0.5 per
cent to 8.25 per cent Howev-
er. die markets were cheered
by a later announcement from
the Bundesbank that it would
reduce the market rate estab-
lished at tins week’s money
market tender to 9.2 per cent,
a half-point lower than the
existing level. Dealers noted
that the tender rate was the
one that influenced economic
and foreign exchange condi-
tions most directly. They add-
ed that the Bundesbank’s
announcement suggested the
smaller cut in the lombard rate

was merely a token designed
to pacify hardliners on the
central bank council

Nevertheless, some inves-
tors had hoped for a bigger
move after Sunday's 7 per cent
devaluation of the lira.

The Bundesbank said the
realignment and interest cut
were a response to the heavy
strain felt in the ERM last
week and the DM24 billion

New parities Ure-per ECU

Mark 802.488 2.03842

Pound 2J387J34 0.691328

French fr 239.273 6.83992

Guflder 712J223 £29789

BeVLuxfr 385077 42.0639

Punt 2,149.82 0.761276

Dan Kir 210.383 7.77921

Peseta 12.346 132^62

Escudo 9.23048 177.305

Lira - 1.636.61

* Central parity. Parities between
otfur currencies unchanged

cost of maintaining lira parity.
It was worked out on Friday
evening, just days after the
Bath meeting of European
finance ministers had ruled
out realignments.

Economists pointed out the
proximity of the cut to the
French referendum on Maas-
tricht on Sunday and said
further cuts would be slow to
follow and would depend on
Germany’s economy.

Kevin Darlington, an econ-
omist at UBS Phillips & Drew,
said the German cut was less
than had been hoped for
overnight after the Italian
devaluation and that sterling
“remained in the firing line".
He said Maastricht remained
the kqr issue for foreign ex-
changes. adding that the "only
change is that the ERM has
been proved to be more flexi-
ble and that market pressure
can dictate events".

Mr Darlington said that
yesterday's cut may be the
peak in the interest rate cyde
but that economic revival de-
pends on the scale of cuts that
follow. He believes that subse-
quent German interest cuts
are likely to be linked to events

in the domestic economy,
which will mean that further
cuts are unlikely to be dramat-
ic, leading to a tough time in
Europe next year.

Officials in Britain pur a
brighter gloss on develop-
ments. They pointed out that
the differentia] between Brit-
ish and German rates is down
from 6.5 per cent before ERM
entry to 0.25 per cent before
the weekend and now 0.5 per
cent.

They reaffirmed that policy
remained to set interest rates
so that sterling maintained its
position within the ERM.
Yesterday's move was said to
be helpful in -paving the way
for lower interest rates in time
across Europe.

Talk of British interest rate
cuts yesterday, however, was
deariy premature. Economists
said that the lombard rate
would have had to have been
cut by no less than 0.75 per
cent to create the possibility of
a British cut

Adam Cole, a currency ana-
lyst at James CapeL said if the
French referendum yielded a
yes vote, sterling would re-
main weak but could rise. But
he believed that a no vote
would pose the threat of
interest rises in Britain and
France if there was not a
realignment within the ERM.

DOLLAR TO MARK

August 21
I Combined central
bank Intervention
[ to support dofiar
backfires

September 5
EC finance ministers ac
rule out realignment
after Bath meeting

September 13-141
Lira devalued 7%. 1
Bundesbank cuts .
Lombard rate by I
quarter point 1

September 5

Federal Reserve cuts
funds rate to 3% after
poor economic figures

September 10 |

George Bush
launches economic i
recovery plan

August \ S e p t a in b e r

Bundesbank drives shares wild

By Michael Clark, stock market correspondent

ALMOST CIO billion was
added to the value of Britain's
publicly quoted companies as
the London stock market re-
acted wildly to the softening of
interest rates across Europe.

During tire first half hour,
the FT-SE index soared al-
most 100 points as investors
began pinning hopes on a cut
of between half and a full
point in the lombard rate.

Market-makers, who found
themselves short of stock at the

end of last week, had no choice
but to mark prices sharply
higher in an attempt to deter
the expected surge of buying
orders. In the event, the quar-
ter-point reduction in the lom-
bard was less than many
investors had hoped and with-
in minutes prices were losing
ground rapidly as market-
makers went on the defensive.
By 10am the index’s lead had
been cut to 36 points. It was
then that a few buyers began

picking up blue chips that had
been looking oversold. The
index recovered to dose 5 1 .2
higher at 2,422.1 as the Dow
Jones average posted an early
lead of 54 points.

Trading conditions in
London were thin. Most fond
managers see the about-turn
by the Bundesbank as a step in
the right directioa but they
reckon it could be some time
before domestic interest rates
fall and few are willing to

Lombard move disappoints business

By Patricia Tehan

BRITAIN'S business leaders
are disappointed by yester-
day’s quarter-point cut in Ger-
man interest rates fearing it is
not enough to push UK inter-
est rates down. Marry firms
are unconvinced that tire gov-
ernment’s economic polities
are working. However, most
of them, even those who
argued against entry to the
exdiange-iate mechanism in
1990, are firmly against a
devaluation of staling.

All the companies contacted
yesterday welcomed the
strengthening of the dollar
against European currencies.
The recent strength of the

pound against die dollar has
been damaging to exports.

Howard Davies, director
general of the Confederation
of British Industry, said he
hoped yesterday's cut in the
lombard rate would be the
beginning of a downward
trend in German rates leading
to lower UK rates. But he said:
“It is unlikely to provide the
Chancellor with much room
for manoeuvre to reduce UK
rates in the short term."

Ann Robinson, head of the
policy unit at the Institute of
Directors, said she is disap-
pointed by the size of the
German cut The IoD argued

that the government should
not have entered the ERM
until inflation had come
down. Dr Robinson said the
institute supports Mr Major
in his aim to defeat inflation
but feds there could have been
better ways to achieve it The
IoD is lobbying the govern-
ment for an indepoident
Bank of England.

Donald Anderson, chief
economist at Courtaulds, said
the company still supports
ERM membership with the
pound at its present level He
said: “ERM is helpful because
of the stability it promises
which means it will be possible

to pursue a pan-European
strategy particularly in regard
to investment"

He welcomed yesterday’s
strengthening of the dollar
against European currencies.
Almost 30 per cent of
Courtaulds’ earnings come
from America and it has been
worried about the translation
efiect of the recent weakness in
the dollar on profits.

Michael Prideaux. a direc-
tor at BAT, also welcomed the
stronger dollar, which he said
wifi help in earnings transla-
tion. BAT was one of the few
companies to support ster-
ling’s ERM entry in 1990.

commit themselves to opening
new positions before Sunday's
French referendum on
Maastricht

Government securities post-
ed gains of almost £2 at the
longer end, pleased by the
dollar's revival and on encour-
aging performance by the
pound against the mark.

Blue chips led the way
higher, especially the bigger
dollar earners and oil com-
panies. Double figure gains
were commonplace despite
prices closing below their best
of the day. BAT Industries, the
tobacco and financial services
group, touched a high for the
day of ?85p. before finishing
29p higher at 777p. There
were also gains for BOC
Group. 17p to 659p, BTR.
19p to 44 8p. Commercial
Union. !9p to 51 Op. Cable
and Wireless. !9p to 539p.
Guinness. 1 6p to 533p. Glaxo

22p to 790p and RTZ 24j) to
555p. But iji ere was little sign

555p. But there was little sign
of support for the interest rate
sensitive sectors such as prop-
erty, retailing and leisure.

Bundesbank cot page I
Analysis, pages 2 and 3
Peter RidddL page 12
Leading article, page 13
Stock market page 20
Italy's impotence, page 21
Comment, page 21

Snacks add weight
to Dalgefy’s results

Inchcape wins trade
licence in China

By Matthew Bond

By Michael Tate, city editor

1

EE33IS

D ALGETY, the food and
agribusiness group, has re-
ported pre-tax profits of El 17
million for the year to end-
June, a 5.3 per cent advance
on the previous year.

Maurice Warren, chief exec-
utive, said he was encouraged
by the performance. “Given
the recessionary dimate in
which we have been operat-
ing, our businesses, particular-
ly those involved in consumer
foods, achieved very satisfac-
tory results."

Mr Warren, w ho has an-
nounced plans to retire next
year, said the search for his
replacement was continuing,
with internal as well as exter-
nal candidates being consid-
ered. John West took over
from Sir Peter Carey as group
chairman this month.

Following the improvement
in profits, the final dividend

has been increased to I2p
(11.35p) making a total of
19.5p (1 8.5p). The shares
dosed 10pupat395p.

In February, Dalgety paid
£43 million for Sooner
Snacks, an acquisition that
lifted Golden Wonder’s share
of the snaddoods market to 20
per cent and contributed a
trading profit of £2.5 million.
Mr Warren said: “Golden
Wonder performed strongly,
increasing its market share in
crisps and maintaining its
leadin g position in the ambi-
ent ready meals sector.” Gold-
en Wonder helped lift trading
profits in consumer foods 20
per cent to £59.8 million.

Mr Warren said a further
500 jobs had been shed dur-
ing the year, reducing the total
workforce to 1 5.000.

Tempos, page 20

INCHCAPE has become the
first western company to be
granted a licence to trade in its
own right in China, and is
setting up an operation In the
Shanghai district of Pudong.

Charles Mackay, chief exec-
utive, said yesterday that the
group had accepted one of
only three invitations from the
Chinese authorities to foreign
companies — the other two
went to the Japanese — to
operate inside China.

The country is already an
important market for Inch-
cape, responsible for about
£200 million of group turn-
over, and contributing “sev-
eral millions of pounds"
towards the advance in inter-
im profits unveiled yesterday.

Pre-tax profits for the first
half of 1992 raced from £9 1.3
million to £11 7.1 million. The
bulk of the increase came from

Tozer Kemsley & Millboum.
the motor distributor and
dealer acquired for G82 mil-
lion earner this year, and
contributing figures for four
months.

Earnings per share rose
from 13.6p to 14.6p on the
capital enlarged by the rights
issue that paid for TKM. and
the interim dividend is raised
from 5p a share to 5.4p.

Sir David Orr. who hands
over the chairmanship today
to Sir David Plastow, the
former chairman and chief
executive of Vickers, said
TKM was matching up to
expectations and that the
group was benefiting from the
merger of its Wadham Ken-
ning retail operations with
Mann Egerton.Inchcape
shares advanced 22p to 420p.

WHAT DO GILT-EDGED
SECURITIES AND THE U.S.
CURRENCY HAVE IN COMMON?

Tempos, page 20

Al-Fayeds censured by takeover panel

THEY BOTH PROMISE THE
BEST PERFORMANCE

By Angela Mackay

THE Al-Eayed brothers’ rep-
utation suffered another blow
yesterday when the takeover
panel censured them for mis-
leading die market when they
bid for House of Fraser and
Hairods, its flagship, more
than seven years ago.

The panel did not start its
enquiry until the publication
in March 1990 of a report by
trade and industry inspectors
who found that Mohamed,
Salah and AS Al-Eayed "dis-
honestly misrepresented then-
origins, their wealth, their
business interests and their
resources” in the course of
their £573 million takeover of
the retail chain in 1985.

Because House of Fraser is
no longer a listed company,
the panel's edict can have
little effect on the group.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

The executive of the pond
spent almost 18 months de-
riding the brothers were in
breach of general principle 12
of the takeover code and
began disciplinary proceed-
ings in October 1991. The AI-
Fayeds adjourned the matter
pending civil litigation

brought by Tiny Rowland and
Lonrho, his trading group,
who consider they were
wrongly prevented from bid-
ding for House of Fraser and,
as a result the group was
delivered into the hands of
the AKRayeds.

Yestertiay’s statement fol-
lowed two unsuccessful at-
tempts to have the executive’s
derision overturned by judi-
cial review.

The Al-Fayeds are challeng-
ing the trade department’s
findings before the European
Commission of Human
Rights as well as defending an
action brought by Lonrho,
House of Fraser and
Kleinwort Benson, the Al-
Fayeds’ advisers, alleging con-
spiracy to mislead the market

The panel’s enquiry focused
on the brothers' “business
interests and resources” as

described in three press re-
leases and the offer docu-
ment There, the brothers
claimed they had “wide-
spread International interests
including shipowning, luxury
hotels, construction, ofl, and
oil services, banking and
property".

The panel concentrated on
whether the brothers’ state-
ments during the takeover
bad created a misleading
impression and found accord-
ingly. It did not, however,
deliberate on whether these
statements were “intentional-
ly misleading" because
breach of general principal 12
does not call for this.

The panel cleared Hem-
wort Benson of any wrongdo-
ing, finding that the merchant
bank had taken reasonable
care to ensure its clients had
complied with the code.

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THE TIMES TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 5 1 992

Hard-up motorists
leave Kwik-Fit

deflated at halfway

By Michael Tate, city editor

PROFITS of Kwik-Fit Hold-
ings, die replacement tyre and
car parts ^roup, almost halved
in the six months to end-
August, from £16.7 million to
£9.7 million. putting die skids
under the share price, which
dropped 21p to 88p, before
recovering to dose at 96p. At
one point this year they were
trading at 225p.

Tom Farmer, the Kwik-Fit

chairman and chief executive,

who had warned of falling
sales when the share price
came under pressure in the
summer, blamed the result on
hard-up motorists who have
been switching to cheaper
tyres or delaying replacing
diem altogether.

Mr Farmer, who brought
forward the interim results to
minimise market uncertainty
— the second half is only two
weeks old — said there had
been a significant drop in
demand for tyres and associat-
ed products. Unit sales were
15 per cent lower titan a year
ago. Until the profit warning.

expectations had been high
because foe company had
prided itself on its ability to
thrive during a recession,
based on foe theory that
motorists held on to' their cars

longer, to the advantage of the
replacement parts market.

New legislation on tyre
tread depth was introduced In
January and had been expect-
ed to swell the market, but the
substantial increase in sales
seen in the last quarter of the
group’s previous year, was not

sustained, lyre sales dropped
in May and June, Mr Farmer
said, as private motorists felt
foe squeeze and large fleet
operators introduced more
stringent cost controls.

Mr Farmer said police re-
ports indicated that in some
areas up to 25 per cent of
Britain's motorists were driv-
ing on illegal tyres. Many of
those who did replace their
tyres opted for cheaper prod-
ucts with' tower margins. Sales
of exhausts held up, however.

Despite the slump in profits.

which included a £1.7 million
surplus on property disposals.
Kwik-Fit is holding its interim
dividend at l.35pashare.The
payment is still comfortably
covered by earnings of 3 .82p a
share, against the 7.01p re-
ported at tins time last year.

Mr Farmer said operating
costs had been tightly con-
trolled and borrowings were
“restricted**. Gearing was 6
per cent “and we hope to have
it down to zero by the year-
end.” he added. The group is
underteking a signficant stock
reduction programme.

Capital expenditure in the
period was £9 million, with

seven centres opened, and a
further £6 million budgeted
for the second half. The group
has 30 more sites under
development.

Mr Farmer found it difficult
to foreiast future trading, but
he believes the group wtD
benefit as motorists reach the
point where they cannot defer
car maintenance require-
ments any longer.

British
Polythene
leaps 44%

By Matthew Bond

BRITISH Polythene, Brit-
ain's biggest producer of poly-
thene film, has reported a 44
per cent increase in first-half
pre-tax profits to £6.5 million.

Gamexun MeLatehfe. chair-
man, described the results as
excellent but warned that the
company had not seen any
reoiveiy in demand and that
in recent months there had
bear indications from its in-
dustrial and construction sec-
tor customers of a further
deterioration. '

He said the improvement in
profits had been doe to focus
and specialisation in the prod-
uct range and. the tighter
management controls imple-

mented throughout die group
in tiie past few years. The
dividend for five six months to
end-June rises to 3.5p (3p).

Operating margins . in-
creased from 7.8 per cart to
92. per cent- The interest
charge fell from £1.2 million
last tone to E77 1,000.

The company announced it
had bought. BP Chemical's
polythene film business for
£6.4 million. The acquisition,
to be known as Novathene
Films, will form part of a new
films division as part of a
corporate restructuring.

Let down: Tom Fanner, chairman, saw profits halved

GLOBAI

BEVERAGES

NT TO
CTIONERY

1992 FIRST HALF RESULTS

(unaudited)

“I am pleased to report interim results
which show progress overall despite
difficult economic conditions in major
markets and the impact of adverse
exchange rates.

Sales

£1, 469.9m

+

3.5%

Trading Profit

£140. 5m

+

4.2%

Pre-Tax Profit

£126.0m

+

13.0%

Earnings per share

10.27p

+

1.1%

Dividend per share

3.30p

+

3.1 %

Conditions in our major markets
remain difficult and current exchange
rates will have a more negative impact
in the second half.

However, we have a resilient business
with excellent brands, geographical
spread, strong management and a sound
balance sheet. I am sure that we will
continue to win a good share of the
business available to us.” /\ „

’ jc0f^

Sir Graham Day Chairman

(S&Matot Schweppes

“ "■

Six investment firms
declared in default

THE Investors Compensation Scheme has declared six
firms in default opening the way for investors to mate

daims. Five of the companies are regulated by Firabra and

one is authorised by the Securities and Investments Board.
The Rmbra firms are Bnombard Investment Services,
Castle Financial Services (East Anglia). Investment
Marketing Services, Morton Dunn Financial Services and
Scandebuiy & Whyte Independent Financial Services. The
SIB firm is Castle Dyte Financial Services.

Tbe compensation scheme will, contact ail known
investors with these firms. Any investors not hearing from

d.. 1 J IJ - fnincMrC T'lUTl rVMIdflim

investors wnn mese nnns. emy uwbuiw

the scheme should contact the Investors Compensation

Scheme. Gavrdle House. 2-1 4 Bunhih Row. London EC1 .

Ossoiy reshuffles board

MANAGEMENT PROVEN IN THE MARKET PLACE

THE CONTENTS OF THIS STATEMENT. FOR WHICH THE DIRECTORS OF CADBURY SCHWEPPES PIC ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE, HAVE BEEN APPROVED FOR THE PURPOSE OF SECTION 5? OF THE FINANCIAL SERVICES ACT 1981. BY

ARTHUR ANDERSEN. AS AN AUTHORISED PERSON .

OSSGRY Estates, the property company, has reshuffled its
board for the second time this year. John Walter is stepping

down as chairman and ma n aging director out wl
continue as a director. Christoper Spence; who pined the
board in January, ^ will become non-executive chairman and
Norman Turner will become managing director. Mr
Turner is chairman of Intercity Property Group. Ossorys
largest sha reh older, with a 6.5 per cent stake. Interniy
acquired the stake last year.

EIS rises with caution

EIS Group, the specialist engineer, unveiled another rise i
first half profits but sounded a more cautious note o:

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second-half prospects. The group maintained margins
despite price faffs in many of its companies, helping pre-tax
profits climb 4 percent to £7.34 million in the six months to
end-June. Sales edged up to £95.5 million (£92.1 mllliori).
An interim dividend of 3.225p (3.1 75p) is recommended.
Earnings dipped to l3-062p (14.2 lip) diluted by last
year’s £18.3 million rights issue. The shares fell 4p to 366p.

Photo-Me profits slip

PRE-TAX profits at Photo-Me International, the photo-
graphic booth to express print services group, have slipped
from £1 7. 1 million to £1 6.4 million, but the group is paying
a 3. 1 p final dividend for the year ended last April, lifting the
total for the year from 4.2p to 4.4p. David. Miller, the
managing director, said that despite a difficult financial
year, the group had achieved a 7 per cent increase in sales at
£1 14.8 million. Earnings per share rose from J7.06p to
1 7.9p. The group continued to invest heavily.

Ransomes in the black

RANSOMES, the lawnmower manufacturer, is back in
profit, but is still not resuming dividend payments. The first
six months of 1992 produced pre-tax profits of £2.01
million on sales of £79.8 million, compared with the loss of
£770,000 incurred in the first half of 199 1 on a turnover of
£76.8 million. Earnings are 1 .4p a share, against a deficit of
1.6p. Trading in the second half will continue to be
demanding. Bob Dodsworth. foe group chief executive,
stud. Shareholders last received a dividend in 1 990.

Gola Footwear sold

PORTER Chadbum. the specialist packaging and consum-
er leisure group, is selling Gola Footwear to William Lamb
Footwear in a deal that could net up to £3.5 million in cash
over the next fouryears. The stocks and business of Gola are
bong sold for £2 million. Porter will grant WLF a licence to
worldwide rights to the Gola name in return for royalty
payments of 3 per cent of sales, with minimum guaranteed
payments totalling £650.000 over four years. WLF also has
the right to acquire the brand for £1 .35 million.

FII declines 10%

A FALL into losses at the scientific equipment division has
contributed to a 10 per cent decline in pre-tax profits at FII
Group, which is primarily involved in footwear manufac-
turing. Taxable profits for the year to end-May dropped
from E7.2 million to £6.5 million on turnover virtually
unchanged at £80.2 million. The final dividend has been
increased from 7.75p to 8.5p. making 14p for the year, up
10 per cent FII said margins had been depressed by the
UK recession and, overseas, by adverse exchange rates.

Shearson to sell unit

AMERICAN Express’s Shearson Lehman Brothers Hold-
ings unit -expects an after-tax gain of about $150 million
from the sale of The Boston Company to Mellon Bank. The
deal will raise Shearson's tangible equity by about $250
million. The sale is for $1,453 billion. Under the
agreement. TBC will be sold to Mellon for $1 .30 1 billion in
cash, $115 million in Mellon Bank common stock and 10-
year warrants-The deal will reduce Shearson's double
leverage and improve capital ratios and liquidity.

Rank Organisation deal

THE Rank Organisation, the leisure combine, has sold
Rank Screen Advertising to a consortium for £20 million in
cash and further subordinated preference shares worth £1
million. Another payment win be made, to reflect the
.working capital within the business when the offer is
completed. Rank Screen Advertising made trading profits
of E2.5 million in the last financial year and had a book
value of £53 mfflion. The vendor is backed fay funds advised

by Schroder Ventures. '

SERVOMEX (lnt)
Pre-tax: £1 .04 m
EPS: 7.0p (6.0p)

Dhr 1.9p (1.8p)

ASPEN COMMS (lnt)

Pro-tax: £923,000

EPS: 4.6pJ6-6p)

Dnr. 2-0p (2-7p)

Ust time’s profit was £922,000:
Turnover rose to £9.68m (£8. 54m).

Gearing reduced to about 27 per
cent Tradlna remains difficult

J B1LLAM (lnt)
Pretax: £239,000
EPS: 9J9 p (4.5p)
Div: Uto (1,6401

KINGSTON OIL A GAS
Preface £209,000
EPS: 1.08p (4.48p)

Dhc I.Opfi.Dp)

ROSKELflnf)

Pre-tax: £652,000
EPS:Z91p (2.37p)

Div: 1.30p (120p)

SHARPE* FISHER (InO
Prefax: £420,000
EPS: ISp (LPS: 1.4p)
Div.1Jp(l5p)

UTD FRIENDLY GROUP

Pre-tax:£9-51 m <£7.76m)
EPS: 9.14p (722p) -■
Div. 4:90p (4j20p)

STAR COMPUTER (lnt)
Pretax: £119,000
EPS: 1£p (LPS; 12£p)
DlvNlUnfl)

cent Trading remains difficult

Last time's-profit was £1 .15m.
Company expects total dividend
for the year to be no lass than In
1991. Turnover £28.9m (£28m).

Last time's profit was £1 09,000.
Gearing reduced to 38 per cent,
against 70 per cent 18 months
ago. Turnover static at £3.08m.

Interim results. Last lime's profit
was £761 ,000. Turnover fell 18 per
oentto £R94m. Profits fall mainly
due to tower US contribution.

Last time's profit was 2548.000.
Turnover rose to £22.8m (E20.2m).
Despite margin pressure, group .
says profits remain satisfactory.

Thera was a £252,000 toss last time.
Company said it is not possible to
guarantee a maintained fall-year
dividend, due to economic cflmate.

Interim, results. Total Ufa and
general premiums were up 15 per
cent to £140^1 m. General branch
underwriting toss: £1.7m f£42m).

There was an £886,000 toss last time
Turnover fell to £7.33m (£13.7m).
Star sad both trading companies
have returned to profitability. '

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BUSINESS NEWS 19

Lloyd’s near
to creating
aid scheme
for names

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LLOYD'S of London is be-
lieved to be dose to establish-
ing a formal structure for
exploring ways of providing
financial relief for the hardest
hit names.

The idea has been mooted
by NeO Shaw, the chairman of
the Association of Lloyd’s
Members and is thought to
have been favourably received
by both David Coleridge, the
current chairman, and David
Rowland, his likely successor

ITC makes
plea over
outside
producers

By Meunda Wittstock

MEDIA CORRESPONDENT

INDEPENDENT producers
must be contracted to make
programmes for specific ITV
companies, despite the intro-
duction of a new central
commissioning system meant
to end the old ITV pro-
gramme supply cartel the
Independent Television Com-
mission (1TQ said yesterday.

In a submission to the
Office of Fair Trading, which
is empowered to ensure the
new networking arrange-
ments are fair and competi-
tive. the commission said
responsibility for compliance
with regulatory requirements
had to rest upon the ITV
licensees, on whom sanctions
could be imposed.

But independent producers
have told the OFT that the
placement of programmes
with individual lioencees is
unnecessary and opens the
way for exorbitant. “handling
fees" and other charges im-
posed by ITV companies.
Compliance, they say. could be
delegated or collectivised.

PACT, the independent
producers’ trade association,
has supplied die OFT with
evidence that some ITV com-
panies are paying indepen-
dents less than die agreed
network tariff received for the
programme. The discrepancy
in some cases is as high as 20
per cent The ITCs submis-
sion comes as the ITV Associ-
ation opted to locate the
central scheduling unit at
ITN’s Gray's Inn Road
premises.

Yesterday the ITC. which
agreed that independents
must have the right to ap-
proach the central unit directly
for commissioning purposes,
said only a specific ITV com-
pany could ultimately ensure
compliance with regulations
by monitoring the production
process to ensure an indepen-

tion. quality and cost require-
ments”. It said that as ITV
licences have been granted on
the basis that licensees can
both broadcast and produce
programmes, the OFT must
not interpret the competition
lest “in a way which treats
vertical integration of this kind
as either undesirable in prac-
tice or unacceptable in
principle”.

The OFT said list month
that refusing independents
direct access to the central
commissioning unit was
■'anti-competitive practice”.

from foe end of the year. The
subject was raised at Wednes-
day's meeting of the ruling
Council of Lloyd’s when Mr
Coleridge informed his fellow
council members that he had
received an approach.

The plan would involve
representatives of action
groups of names negotiating
with market figures, such as
the heads of the market associ-
ations and leading errors and
omissions underwriters, to see
if an agreement could be
reached over providing limit-
ed relief to the financially most
distressed names.

If this relief could be topped
up with funds raised volun-
tarily from the market, many
names believe they could
struggle on without having to
sell their homes and other
assets until personal stop loss
and tax recoveries provide
further financial assistance.

The plan has been greeted
with sceptical approval by the
market, which otherwise faces
further rounds of damaging
and costly legal actions result-
ing from the huge losses
suffered by names on the
Goods Walker. Feltrim and
other LMX spiral syndicates.

Alan Jackson, a council
member, said: “I would be
quite happy to talk unto the
cows come home if it will help.
Whether anything would
come out of it or not is more
difficult” The proposal is
fraught with difficulty as the
errors and ommissions under-
writers cannot ignore their
legal reponsibflities to their
names and reinsurers.

One meeting betwgen repre-
sentatives of action groups, die
ALM, and the market has
already taken place and a
schedule has been drawn up
for further meetings, some of
which wifi concentrate on
specific issues such as errors
and ommissions cover. ■

Paul Archard. die chairman
of the Lloyd'S Underwriting
Agents' Association, who at-
tended the initial meeting,
said dial “from the point of
view of bridge building the
meeting was sensible.” but he
added that agreement on spe-
cific issues was going to be
hard to come by.

Forth Ports profits from private ownership

Steaming ahead: Hugh Thompson, chief executive, left, and Wilson Murray, finance director of Forth

By Philip Pangalos

FORTH Ports. Scotland's
largest port operator, which
was privatised this year, has
declared a maiden interim
dividend of 2p a share after
unveiling pre-tax profits of
£5.25 million in the six
months to end-June.

The group, winch operates
six ports on the Forth
estuary, is the seventh largest
port operator in the United
Kingdom. Operating profits
rose 5 per cent to £5 million,
on turnover ahead 7.5 per
cent to £162 million. Profits
at Forth, where Hugh
Thompson is chief executive
and Wilson Murray is finance
director, were boosted by an
unforeseen contract from a
trig customer.

William Thomson, chair-
man. said: “The result is very
encouraging given the low
level of economic activity.
Although our tonnage figures
are down on 1991, turnover
and operating profit have
increased.”

There was an extraordinary
gain of £12 million on a
government debt repayment.
Earnings were 1 1.4pa share,
while gearing was 30 per
cent. Analysts are looking for
full-year pre-tax profits of
about £7.5 million. The
shares rose 9p to I76p,
comparing well with March's
flotation price of I lOp.

Whitbread sells 233
pubs to buy-in team

By Our City Staff

WHITBREAD, the brewing
and retailing group, is on the
brink of compliance with die
government's orders on public
house ownership after yester-
day's sale of 233 pubs to a
management buy-in team.

The deal, believed to be
worth between £20 million
and £25 million, brings the
number of pubs Whitbread
has sold or leased free of tie
since 1989 to 2.200. raising
around £200 million.

Whitbread has 100 more
pubs to release to meet die
government's requirements
and expects to do so "over the
next few weeks”. The deadline
is November 1 .

Peter Jarvis. Whitbread's
chief executive, said the divest-
ment and leasing programme
had been “an enormous task
in the recessionary marker.
Whitbread will be left with
4.300 managed and tenanted
pubs after compliance with the
Beer Orders, issued after the

Monopolies and Mergers
Commission's investigation of
the industiy.

The buy-in team is led by
Paul Smith, former group
managing director of Deven-
ish. and indudes a number of
former colleagues at the brew-
er. Their portfolio of former
Whitbread pubs is concentrat-
ed in South Wales with others
m the South East, South West,
Midlands and North of Eng-
land. The pubs will be owned
by a new company. Discovery
Inns.

Mr Smith said: “We want to
enhance the traditional values
that once made Britain's pubs
renowned throughout the
world for their good ale and
for the hospitality of their
landlords."

The deal was arranged and
led by Kteinwort Benson Dev-
elopment Capital and backed
by funds from other City
institutions. Bank finance was
supplied by NM Rothschild.

Hurricane
Iniki claims
putat$5bn

THE insured cost of the
damage caused by Hurricane
Iniki. which devastated the
Hawaiian island of Kauai at
die weekend, has been esti-
mated at about $5 billion.

The claims will bring fur-
ther pain to die American
insurance industiy after the
$8 billion Hurricane Andrew
loss in Florida last month. .

In both cases the bulk of the
cost will be borne fay American
direct insurers and claims wQl
have only a limited impact on
the London reinsurance
market.

Nicholas Balcombe, the
managing director of Bal-
combe Group, an insurance
claims management special-
ist. said: “Iniki is the most
powerful storm to have hit the
island this century. Its power is
comparable to that of Hurri-
cane Andrew.

“Communications on the
island have been severely dis-
rupted. making initial assess-
ment of the damage more
problematic."

Inter-firm loans
may be taxable

By Patricia Tehan

INTER-COMPANY loans
may become subject to corpo-
ration tax after the govern-
ment squeezed new rules into
this year's Finance Act as it
passed through Parliament.

Gerald Leahy, director gen-
eral of the Association of
Corporate Treasurers. ACT.
has criticised the government
for "the rather sneaky way" it
introduced anti-avoidance leg-
islation into the act The ACT
has wanted its members to
check loans marie by a UK
company to a non-resident
company in the same group.

The government inserted
the dause to coordinate its
treatment of taxation of equity
notes with the way they are
treated in America. Previously
equity notes were regarded as
debt in the UK and as equity
in the US. Under the 1992
Finance Act equity notes are
now treated as equity. This
means, under the new rules,
interest paid is treated as a

distribution for corporation
tax purposes.

But the ACT complains that
the drafting of the new act
means that inter-company
loans to a subsidiary resident
outside the UK wifi be affected
where there is no particular
redemption date or where the
redemption date is more than
50 days after the advance.

The new roles apply to
interest on all loans paid after
May 14 thisyear, regardless of
when the loan was made.
Theymean the payer will have
to account for advance corpo-
ration tax of a third of the
actual amount of interest paid
and the interest wifi not be
deductable against UK tax-
able income and gains.

Mr Leahy said normally
such changes to the Finance
Act would be raised in the
Budget proposals and there
would be “a good deal of
discussion" before changes
were made.

GPA looks
towards
Continent
for finance

From Reiter

IN DUBLIN

GPA Group, the world's larg-
est aircraft-leasing company,
is to seek a Luxembourg
listing for its $300 million
refinancing, and Tony Ryan,
the firm's founder, may con-
tribute up to $25 million of his
personal fortune.

Aviation sources said on
Monday that a listing for the
convertible share issue will be
sought initially in Luxem-
bourg and then in other
financial centres.

A quotation will assist li-
quidity for the cash-strapped
firm whose $1 billion flotation
on the world’s leading stock
markets had to be cancelled
abruptly in June for lack of
investor support.

Since then, GPA has been
urgently seeking fresh equity
against the stormy back-
ground of a turbulent aviation
industiy hit by airline bank-
ruptcies and snuggling
manufacturers.

GPA is trying to reschedule
its programme of aircraft ac-
quisitions down from about
SI 2 billion to $5 billion up to
the year 2000. The company
is locked in talks with Boeing.
Airbus. Fokker and McDon-
nell Douglas. It is also negoti-
ating a $750 million
securitisation package known
as Alps, the details of which
are being hammered out with
Citibank.

The sources said Ryan told
GPA's shareholders he was
prepared to contribute on a
pro-rata basis to the refinanc-
ing. That would mean approx-
imately $25 million as he has
an 8 per cent stake in the
company he founded.

Another possible fund-rais-
ing avenue is the sale of some
of the group's companies.
GPA, bared at Shannon air-
port in western Ireland, has
invested about $50 million in
technology joint ventures such
as GPA Pacific Aero Support
and Pacific Aviation. It is
understood that low-yielding
assets are all being examined.

Aer Lingus, die Irish state
airline, and Air Canada, two
major shareholders in GPA,
had been eager to sell a large
chunk of their shares in the
foiled flotation to finance fleet
replacement programmes.

Japan’s Mitsubishi Trust
and Longterm Credit Bank,
two other large private share-
holders. may be reluctant to
inject more cash because of
domestic problems, analysts
said.

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Frozen fore: chairman Henry Clarke dismayed market

Clarke Foods pulls
interim on pay day

By Martin Waller, deputy city editor

CLARKE Foods, the high
profile ice cream maker that
owns the Lyons Maid brand,
has dismayed the stock mar-
ket by withdrawing the prom-
ised interim dividend on the
day it was to be paid. Hie
company promptly lost two
thirds of its value as the
shares collapsed 43p to 2 1 p.

The half-way figures when
the dividend was announced,
the first trading statement
since the purchase of Lyons
Maid in January, were
marred by production prob-
lems that meant insufficient
ice cream was available at the
start of the summer, but the
interim payment to share-
holders was held at 0.75p.

The group, chasired fay
Henry Clarke, says produc-
tion problems have been re-
solved but poor weather since
late July has left sales consid-
erably short of expectations,
leaving it carrying “substan-

tial stocks" of completed but
unsold product This has af-
fected cash resources because
the company has been unable
to use more than half its
invoice discounting facility,
the only working capital avail-
able, and payments to suppli-
ers and creditors have been
delayed. “It is therefore no
longer appropriate to pay a
dividend," the company said.

Clarke Foods is in talks
with bankers to remedy the
shortage of working capital,
principally by converting all
or some of its invoice dis-
counting facility into an over-
draft “Every effort is being
made to conclude these dis-
cussions as quickly as pos-
sible." a statement to the
Stock Exchange said. The
company was unavailable for
comment The shares, quoted
on the USM. have eroded in
recent months, even before
yesterday's abrupt decline.' '

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THE TIMES TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1992

New driver for smooth-running Inchcape

AS SIR David Plastow slips
behind the Inchcape wheel for
the first time this morning, he
will find a company that
appears to be running as
smoothly as any Silver Cloud
that purred off the production
line during his years in the
driving seat at Rolls-Royce

Motors.

With only a third of group
turnover arising in the UK.
and rather more in the more
buoyant economies east of
Calcutta, recession is having a
relatively restricted impact,
and profits grew 6.5 per cent
at the operating level' even
after stripping out the four-
month contribution from the
£382 million TKM
acquisition.

However. Toyota failed to
make the expected advance
on its 233 per cent UK
market share, the important
beer keg business in Japan
suffered in comparison, with
last year’s strong perfor-
mance, insurance profits were
hit by the virtual disappear-
ance of the reinsurance mar-
ket and shipping services had
to cope with the break-up of
the Scan-Dutch consortium.

But the beauty of Inchcape
is that whatever the number
of swings, there are invariably
as many roundabouts. Hence
surging petfood sales in Ja-
pan. a better than expected
maiden contribution from
Spinneys in the Middle Cast
and stronger performances
from buying services and the
testing division services made
up the lost ground, along with
the boom in trade with China.

Inchcape's unique position
in the biggest emerging mar-
ket place of all should not be
underestimated in the longer

teem. For now though, the
betterthan-expected first half
will make it easier to achieve
the £250 million pre-tax profit
and 30.5p eps analysts had
pencilled in, even though the
late arrival of the Corolla has
made life even more difficult
for the UK motor business.

Next year will see the first
Carina's naming off the
Bumastan production line,
and should faring recoveries in
insurance and shipping ser-
vices. With Charles Mackay
now settled in as chief execu-
tive, boardroom confidence is
underlined by the interim
dividend rise to 5.4p, and the
shares, 420p last night, merit
their 13.7 earnings multiple.

Morgan

Crucible

AS THE UK economy contin-
ues to shrink, the proportion
of Morgan Crucible's earn-
ings derived from overseas
markets climbs inexorably. In
the first half of the year, it
reached 84 per cent up a
further two percentage
points. The company's turn-
over in the UK market is now
worth less than half die value
of its American sales, and.
given die ACT penalty paid
for being domiciled in the UK
the company seems an obvi-
ous candidate for relocation.

The group says it has ad-
dressed the issue many times,
but one factor has always kept
its headquarters on British
soO — the local presence of a
liquid source of equity funds
in the shape of the London
stock market The company
has sometimes been criticised
for the frequency of Its rights

Different picture: Sir David Plastow, left new chairman of Inchcape,
David Orr, centre, the outgoing chairman, and Charles Madcay, chief ex

with Sir
e xecutive

issues. However, there is
little doubt that foe flexibility
afforded by opportunistic, eq-
ui ty-finaneed acquisitions has
allowed it to achieve enviable
geographical diversification.

This gives it attractive sta-
bility of earnings and flattens
out the effects of roller-coast-
er currency markets. Profits
in the first half were up 9 per
cent to £31 million and die
interim dividend held at

its ear ring* are underpinned
by niche specialist materials
products, many of which en-
joy global market leadership,
and should be regarded as
solid. The shares, up 4p at
248 a valued at about
12.6 times this year's earn-
ings on the market's profit
expectations of around £65
million. A faniy priced hedge
for UK economic pessimists.

5.75a The company lusto .
put up with its Shares bring L/312C ty
priced at a small discount to °

the market rating. However,

IN THE hit or miss world of
food manufacturing, to err on

the skk of dullness is current-
ly the surest way of currying
favour wfrh investors. Predict-
ability is king. So, curious as it
may seem, it is actually a
compliment to describe Mau-
rice Warren’s greatest
achievement as making
Dalgety. the foods and agri-
business group, profoundly
dull For it was not always so.

Mr Warren's promotion
may have been a stop-gap
move, but in his three years as
chief executive he has success-
fully transformed the com-
pany. What the sale .of Gill &

Duffus. the commodities
business, and toe Australian
operations started, the posi-
tive cash flow of the honed
down core activities has con-
- firmed Borrowings have fall-
en; from some GOO million
three years ago to £5 7 nuDfon.
giving a undemanding gear-
ing level of 15 percent

If it resists die buying
o p port uni ties that wifl study
come its way, borrowings
should be more or less efimi-
nated in a year's time; despite
a budgeted increase in capital
expenditure to £80 million.

The company’s faith and
inv es tm ent in its branded
products such as Golden
Wonder, Spfller’s and Home-
pride has been rewarded with
a GO nuDfon increase in
tradjhng profits to £59.8 nul-
Ban. More impressive is die
increase in mar gi n s from 92
to 103 per cent Food Ingre-
dients also fared comparative-
ly well with trading p ro fi t s
only £2.1 nriQioa lower at
£213 million, despite fierce
competition.

A strong performance from
the Pig Improvement Com-
pany helped agri-business
defy generally adverse trading
conditions with profits of
£28.1 million. £13 million up
on lak year. Food distribution
made a £12 million profit but
its papertinn margins contin-
ue to raise question marks
over its long-term future.

The dullness factor means
that as things stand pre-tax
profits of £117 million may
grow to only £120 million this
year.

But dullness has Its rewards
and a price-earning multiple
of ten suggests the stores are
worth nibbling at

Investors take cheer from a firmer pound

SHARES in London surged
ahead, with the value of equi-
ties swelling by £9.4 billion as
the Cify took cheer from a
firmer pound and marginally
improved prospects of a much-
needed cut in domestic inter-
est rates.

The FT-SE 1 00 index swept
through the 2.400 leveL open-
ing with a 99.5 point advance
as die market-makers were
caught short of stock and
marked prices sharply higher.

However, shares saw their
early gains halved in a volatile
session after some disappoint-
ment in die size of the Goman
rate art Sentiment was boost-
ed by a strong start on WaD
Street, with the Daw Jones
average up more than 59
prints in early trade, helping
the FT-SE dose 512 points
higher at 2,422.1. The nar-
rower FT index of 30 shares
jumped 45.5 to 1.775.4. Vol-

ume surpassed .recent de-
pressed levels, reaching 537.9
million shares, but dealers
complained that it foiled to
justify the gains.

Leading shares made die
early running, especially the
big dollar earners. The curren-
cy’s strength against die
pound is good news for them.
It makes them more competi-
tive and provides a further
boost to profits when translat-
ing from dollars back into
sterling.

Double figure grins were
commonplace, although most
stocks dosed below their best
IC1 ended up 4p to £10.72,
having touched £1 1 . 1 5. Glaxo
22hp to 790p, SimttiKliiie
Beecham ’A* 13p to 502*3 p,
BAT Industries 29p to 777p.
Reuters 26p to £1 1.44, BTR
1 8p to 448p, and Courtauids
5p to 427p. Other dollar-
eamers to advance were

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Waste Management, up 41p
to 609p, Siebe, 24p to 32 Ip.
TI Group, 1 3p to 285p, Tate
and Iyle. I2p to 302 p.
Wrikome. 15p to 884p, and
BOC, 17p to 659p. The
softening of German interest

rales was deemed to be good
news for Redbud, up 24p at
357p, and RMC Group. 23p
better at 436p. Both have big
interests in Germany and
would benefit from any stimu-
lus to the economy that a cut in

interest rates might generate.

Dalgety, the SpiUers and
Horaepride food group, rose
lOp to 395p after pleasing the
market with a £6 millio n rise
in half-year figures to £1 16.8
million- Inchcape, the inter-
national services group, also
cheered analysts . with better
than expected interim figures
showing pre-tax profits £25.8
million higher at £1 17.1 mil-
lion. The shares responded
with a rise of 22p to 420p.

. The biggest fen on the day
was seen in Clarice Foods, the
USM-quoted food manufac-
turer, which tumbled 43p to
2 lp after cancelling its already
proposed interim dividend
0.7 5p. Poorweather since July
means sales of ice cream have
fallen short of expectations
and large amounts of unsold
stock has hit cash resources.

Kwik-Fft the tyre and ex-
haust specialist, lost 13p to

96p after seeing half-year pre-
tax profits tumble from £16.7
mim nn to £9.7 minion. Sales
of tyres and other products
have fallen sharply.
Whitbread *A’ rose 6p to 394p
after announcing the disposal
of 223 puhs to Discovery
Inns. The move effectively
completes Whitbread’s com-
pliance with the Supply of
Beer order.

MTM, the chemicals com-
pany which last week an-
nounced interim losses of £28
million, eased lp to 28p
despite news that Ken Scho-
field, , the chief executive
brought in to hdp to sort oat
the group's problems, had
bought 33 1 .000 shares at 29p
each. Other directors bought a
total of 65.000 shares, also at
29p.

Michael Clark

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RESULTS FOR THE HALF YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 1992

Total premiums up 15% to £140.1 million.

New life annual premiums up 8% to £11.3 mfflion and

single premiums of £13.5 million from £0.4 million.

■ Pre tax profit up 23% to £9.5 million, dividend increased by 17%.

■ General business underwriting loss reduced from £4.2 million
to £1.7 million.

Half Year

1992 1991

£m £m

Full Year
1991
£m

Premiums — Life

98.7

86.0

165.8

—General

41.4

35.7

71.7

Life business profits

3.9

4.1

10.7

General branch underwriting loss

(1.7)

(4.2)

(4.0)

Investment income and other profits

7.3

7.9

13.4

Profit attributable to shareholders

7.5

5.0

15.6

Dividend per share

4.90p

4.20p

12.30p

Earnings per share

9.14p

7.22p

20.20p

The results for the half years ending 30 June 1991 and 30 June 1992 hava been taken from ihe
unaudited 1992 Interim Statement

The 1992 Interim Statement wfll be sent to aU Shareholders on 22 September 1982. Copies may
be obtained from the Secretary;.

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bond markets, enjoyed sharp
gains across the board in a
very active day's trading.

GOts managed to hold on to
most of their gains, with die
long gfit future advancing
£1 A to £98k, on a very heavy
volume which saw 62,000
contracts traded. In terms of
yield, the shorts had a better
day than the longs, mainly
due to die German rate cut
Dealers said that although
the Lombard rate cut was a
little disappointing, cuts in
other German rates were
viewed positively. Investors
looked on the package of cuts
as the first of a series.

Among those funds sport-
ing advances. Exchequer 94
per cent 1998 rose ll s ht to
£101 */ia whOe Treasmy 9k
per cent 2002 gained £1 ,9 lu
to £10 Vh6 and Ttaastoy 9
per cent 20)2 added t\ l, laz
to £l02 9 /is. Dealers now
expect gilt markets to calm
down, with the likelihood of
some profit-taking ahead of
this weekend’s French refer-
endum vote.

Fotaring the DmoEND DECLARATION by Ford Motor Company
(U.SJ on 9 July 1992 NOTICE is now gtven ttatttw following DISTRI-
BUTION wa become payable on or after 15 September 1982.

Gross DisatwSon per unit
Lass 15% USA Withholding Tax

2-0000 Cents
04000 Cents

Converted at $2,005

1-7000 Cents
£0.00847980

CMms stated be lodged wRh the DEPOSITARY; National Westmin-
ster Bank PLC, Basement, Jtno Court, 24 Prescat Street, London,
El 8BB on speda forms obtataebte (tom that Office.

United Kbigdom Banks and Members of the Stock Exchange should
mark payment of the dvMend bt the appropriate square on the
reverse of the cer tifi c ate .

AI oflier cUmante must complete the special form and present this
at the above address together with the certificate!*) for martttg by
the National Westminster Bank PLC: Postal applCBtioRS cannot be

dated 15 September 1992

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Jones industrial average was
up 35.13 potato at 334033
in mid-morning. Advancing
shares, swamped declining

shares eieven to two on volume
of 21 million.

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higher, led by strong futures.
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BUSINESS COMMENT 21

For this relief
much thanks

EC’s intervention lays bare Italy’s

V J 5T ‘ m.r **“**■ uie weexena changes in
Vtl 1116 ^Klvi. most started to play down their

lnSJhnS^ aJi ’ the 021 “ the Bundesbank’s
ntMnhf J?* on Sunday night, turned

?n t f£^ltI2 nin ? al quarter P 0 ^*- Little has changed
m the objective circumstances facing business, apart
own a minor recovery in the value of dollar-
denominated assets, and the French have yet to vote
on Maastricht Even the 2.2 per cent rise in share
prices was relatively modest, choked off perhaps by
market-makers keener to protect their backs than to
encourage business.

This grudging response misses the point little
may have changed objectively in an ailing person’s
condition if a medical report reveals that the patient is
not suffering from a life threatneing disease, but that
s !Sr? have a Profound effect on the patient’s
attitude and future plans. Until .the Bundesbank
roalaed .could not ignore life west of Aachen, the
aflrng British business patient had a genuine fear of
some international financial spasm this autumn,
akm to the stock market crash of 1987. That spectre
is now disappearing, wide as the gap remains
between European and American interest rates.
There was a more tangible threat that the next
movement in German interest rates might be
upwards. That threat has virtually been exting-
uished. German rates have peaked and begun to fall
albert future movements geared to German mone- i
taiy conditions might be painfiiliy slow.

A threat remains that British interest rates might
need to be raised to support' sterling in the ERM.
Immediate market reaction suggested that the
removal of lira weakness might even focus more
attention on sterling at the bottom of the ERM. Yet
even that possibility now looks insubstantial. On top
of the foreign currency, borrowing package, which
will be used to buy £7.2 5 billion of sterling by the end
of the financial year, there is a further quarter point of
interest rate daylight between sterling and the mark.
Moreover, the passing of an ERM realignment
without sterling being devalued adds credibility to
the pound and removes incentives to speculate. The
odds have worsened against sterling bears.

Currency gyrations and vague threats of financial
crashes or interest rate increases have undermined
confidence again over the past two months, raising
the possibility that the economy might even turn
down again in the autumn. Consumers and
businessmen can now wake from that nightmare
and start getting on with the job again, confident of
eventual recovery.

economic and political impotence

The realignment of
the lira is only
a phenomenon of a
much deeper economic
malaise, says
Wolfgang Munchau

A nnouncing a cut in Ger-
man interest rates, even
before the Bundesbank has
had the chance to
rubberstamp the decision, must have
been a rare pleasure for Ghiiiano
Amato, Italy’s prime minister. Unfor-
tunately. this is about as much
pleasure as he. his five-party coalition
government, and his country wiH get
out of the realignment in Europe’s
exchange-rate mechanism (ERM)
and the German rate cut
The 7 per cent de-facto devaluation
of the Italian lira and the quarter-
point cut in German interest rates
will in the end have done little more
than to relieve short-term market
tensions, after unbearable pressures
in the ERM at the end of last week.
But Italy has paid a high price for the
bailout — the country is dearly
w illin g to permit a great deal of
outside intervention in its own poli-
cies to tackle deep-seated economic
Qls. The European Community has
effectively imposed on Italy specific
budgetary cuts as a price for this
realignment

Professor Amato's frantic procla-
mations yesterday only bear testi-
mony to the sheer panic in his
country. When he said “this is not a
lira devaluation, this is a revaluation
of the mark”, even his most ardent
supporters would have found it
difficult to believe him.

A senior Italian banker was able to
muster a marginally greater degree
of credibility a little later by conced-
ing that this was “an honourable
defeat". In reality, this was a humilia-
tion that laid bare Italy's economic
vulnerability and political impotence.

Hus humiliation was highlighted
in Sunday night’s stark statement by
fee EC Monetaiy Committee that
contained none of fee normal diplo-
matic “non-language" and made it
dear that Italy had to fulfil certain
conditions as its part of the bargain.
"The Italian government, with fee
1993 budget, and with other struc-
tural measures, especially in the areas
of pension, public health and public-
sector wages, will substantially curb
the public deficit and reduce infla-
tion," fee statement said. The dead-
line for this budget is the end of this
month, so Italy will have little
alternative but to comply.

It is extraordinary to see that fee
EC is no longer satisfied to tdl Italy
what to do. It now tells fee country
how to do iL This may prow the
shape of things to come once Euro-
pean monetary union becomes oper-
ative. It also serves as a sotto voce

Soft ecu

B ritain’s hard ecu plan seems finally to have
been buried. The face-saving ERM realign-
ment formula had the lira bong devalued by
3.5 per cent and fee others revalued by 3.5 per oent
against fee ecu. fee numeraire of fee system. In re-
ality. the lira was devalued by about 6 per cent auto-
matically cutting fee value of fee basket currency.
The other currencies therefore rose by about 0.8 per
cent against the ecu, making it flexible rather than
soft In the hard ecu plan, the value of fee basket
currency would always go up with the strongest cur-
rency in a realignment, acting as an anti-inflationary
influence under the stem control of an independent
monetary authority. This might be irrelevant if the
French give the go-ahead to Maastricht and fee
Community, including Denmark and Britain, moves
directly to a single currency. If not, the events of fee
weekend point to the ERM and the ecu remaining
fee product of political compromise.

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devaluation of fee lira would improve
fee plight of fee corporate sector and
help create jobs. Yet they are only too
aware feat the devaluation is onlv fee

phenomenon of a much deeper and
fundamental malaise in fee econo-

fundamental malaise in fee econo-
my. one that cannot be cured by the
simple tokens of economic policy.

The contrast with the heyday of the
19S0s could not be starker. Italians
have always unhappy about what
many call fee "political dass". but this
never mattered greatly as long as fee
mess crealed by Italian politicians
was cancelled out by fee unlikehr
success story of Italy's economy.

The most celebrated success story
was the so-called sorpasso in fee
1980s. when Italy claimed to have
overtaken Britain in terms of GDP.

These days. Italians no longer talk
about il sorpasso but about la reces-
sion e. about fee large-scale job losses
in virtually every sector, about fee
impact of emergency taxation, and
about fee special duties on everyday
items.

The precise extern of the national
disillusionment depends on fee re-
gion. The mezziogiomo. fee poor
south, where hardship has become a
fact of life, is not particularly hit
unlike fee wealthy and industrial
north. In some northern pockets, the
change in sentiment is particularly
severe.

H ardest hit of all. is per-
haps the dty of Turin,
home of the giant Fiat
conglomerate. Fiat has
been one of the greatest casualties of
the recession and the artifically high
lira. In the 1980s. Fiat used to be
dose on fee heels of Volkswagen as
Europe's largest carmaker, but the
Italians have since fallen back. The
company lost market share not only
elsewhere in Europe but. most omi-
nously of all. also at home, where it
had traditionally dominated. The
result was a collapse in profits, mass
redundancies and short-time work-
ing. For Turin, it was an almost
deadly Mow.

For Fiat and other Italian com-
panies fee 7 per cent devaluation will,
in fee shut term, lead to an
improvement in trade with the rest of
the Community.

In a perfect world, this would mean
that fee price of a Fiat car could come
down by an equivalent amount, feus
giving fee ailing carmaker a signifi-
cant boost

At the same time, the price of
foreign goods in Italy would rise, thus
improving Italy’s competitiveness at
home as well Nevertheless, Professor
Amato, his government the opposi-
tion, and most Italian citizens proba-
bly know feat devaluation is no more
than a token gesture that does not
even begin to address fee underlying
problems.

Most depressing of all is feat
whatever fee answer to Italy’s eco-
nomic difficulties, this answer will be
formulated, dictated and implement-
ed by people whom Italians have hot
elected.

A voice in th£ wilderness: Ghiiiano Amato's radical proposals were rejected by the Italian president

warning to everybody else if they
deride not to toe fee European line.

Here we have a case of an
unelected EC committee not merely
deriding monetary policy, but also
telling ode of its member states to cut
its budget. Worse, the European
monetary committee tells them to do
so in specific areas: pension, health
and wages. In terms of the erosion of
national sovereignty, one can hardly
think of a more blatant way of doing
it

At fee same time, there can be no
doubt that Italy is in dire need of
radical measures to reform its econo-
my. The country has a budget deficit
Of 11 per cent of gross domestic
product and a national, debt greater
than its entire GDP. In that respect
Italy is way out of line with France.
Britain and Germany, and certainly
out of line wife fee 3 per cent budget-
deficit ceiling as set out by fee
Maastricht treaty.

The hope feat Italy can solve its
problems on its own accord has
consistently been disappointed. An
attempt to apply radicalism from fee

inside failed last week, when Profes-
sor Amato asked for special powers to
ran economic policy by decree, by-
passing parliament Such emergency
powers are virtually unknown in the
western world and are more reminis-
cent of fee way some of eastern
Europe’s fledgling governments op-
erate. But Professor Amato's proposal
was rejected by the Italian president
Oscar Scalfaro, who declared that die
proposal in its present form "could
not cany my signature”. Leading
politicians of most parties have also
denounced fee plan.

P ossibly this means, as Italian
commentators suggested,
that Professor Amato’s re-
form-minded government
may have to be replaced by an even
more confusing rainbow alliance of
disparate interests, which may also
indude the communists and perhaps
even some of fee leghe, fee coun tty’s
regional independence movements.

In the end. it may matter only littie
who runs Italy. Italians appear to be
resigned to accepting that they can-

not achieve economic reform on their
own accord and need outside disci-
pline.

The diche that Italians favour fee
EC because it serves as their only
hope to get a non-corrupt and effect-
ive government, is sadly only too
correct

It is no wonder, therefore, feat
financial markets remain sceptical
about fee lira and the country as a
whole. This sceptism will certainly
last until fee French vote on fee
Maastricht treaty this Sunday. It
might conceivably outlast a French
“yes” vote. If the French vote “no",
yesterday’s realignment will only
have acted as a precursor to another,
much more fundamental realign-
ment of ERM currencies, and Italy
would once again be under severe
pressure. The lira would again be
devalued, and fee dream of Italy
being in the first league of those
countries heading for European
monetary union would evaporate

For ordinary Italians, yesterday’s
news probably amounts to a mixed
blessing. There is some hope that a

THE TIMES

Hesketh drives
over to RZW

AFTER losing its top insur-
ance research duo to Credit
Lyonnais Laing this summer,
BZW. hitherto not involved in
corporate broking in the insur-
ance sector, is to develop a
presence there wife the ap-
pointment of insurance ex-
pert. Michael Hesketh. 43, a
director at Warburg Securi-
ties. Warburg currently ad-
vises 75 per cent of the
insurance sector, and Hes-
keth. who. at Warburg, com-
bines corporate broking with
his role as head of insurance
research and sales, will con-
centrate on corporate broking
at BZW from November.
Hesketh says his combined
roles at Warburg present too
much conflict — “1 know too
many things I cant use” —
and admits his move to BZW
became posable when David
Hudson and Alan Curtis,
insurance analysts, joined
CLL He was "out of sympa-
thy”. he says, wife their "ag-
gressive" stance. BZW has
held off replacing them pend-
ing Hesketh’s arrival New
appointments should follow.

CITY DIARY

Stop spending a fortune trying
to rig the value of sterling

Heady price of
a London pint

are women’s, compared with
20 per cent a year ago. An
inveterate label watcher.
Brown says the current hot de-
signer name is Tomasz Star-
zewski, also the new favourite
of fee Princess of Wales.

Tugendhafc appeal launch

sonality, arriving late from
Paris, saved fee day by thrust-
ing her four beam into Tug-
endhat's arms, whereupon
Young began snapping. The
tabloids may not be compet-
ing to buy fee photographs
but Abbey says they will come
in handy during the cam-
paign when fee fluffy toys will
be raffled in Abbey branches,
culminating in fee “Joy to the
World" concert at the Royal
Albert Hall on December 1 5.

YES, traders did go a little
crazy on Sunday when the
Bundesbank dropped its
bombshell. One American
dealer in London wanted to
telephone Boston to give the
news to her American dealing
partner but did not have his
home number. So keen was
she to be first to break the
news that she contacted direc-
tory enquiries and rang all
eight entries in Boston under
his name, leaving the message
with eight perplexed Bosto-
nians that German interest
rates were going down.

From MrC. C. Tett
Sir, As any student of Eco-
nomics will know, the value of
the level of a public company's
share price depends on fee
worth of that company. Were I
chairman of a major public
company who spent substan-
tial amounts of fee company’s
money propping up fee share
price, no doubt I would be
facing a long spell at Her
Majesty’s pleasure. 1 have yet
to understand why it is perfect-
ly in order for fee Treasury to
spend thousands of millions of
pounds and take ludicrous
foreign exchange risks wife
our money in order to try to
support fee value of fee
pound.

The value of any currency is
a reflection of the goods and
services produced by that

country as measured against
the money supply. The market
automatically takes all these
factors into account and it
seems strange to me that a
government dedicated to fee
operation of fee law of the
market in every sphere has
chosen to rig the most impor-
tant indicator of all, the value
of sterling.

A free market means just
that Goods, services and cur-
rencies must be allowed to find
their own level within fee
Community. Any attempt by
politicians to rig any of these
levels is doomed to failure.
Yours faithfully,

C. C. TETT.

Wormstall:

Wickham,

Nr Newbury.

Berkshire.

Inappropriate illustration draws wrong
picture in environmental argument

Paris match

Bearing up

THERE was a photo opportu-
nity politicians would die for
yesterday, but Sir Christopher
Tugendhat. chairman of Ab-
bey National, nearly fluffed it
as he launched Abbey’s 1992
children's charity appeal. Sir
Christopher, who made a
splash with his house sale tax
loss scheme last month, was to
be photographed holding toy
polar bears, the appeal's sym-
bol, but forgot to hold his up
for well known paparazzi
man, Richard Young. Gloria
Hunniford. the television per-

Changing partners

THE latest unlikely venue for
blossoming City romance is
fee "downstairs room" at the
Moorgate branch of Jeeves,
fee deaners. Mike Brown, the
manager, says there is now a
seasoned "early morning
squad” who drop off suits at
7.30 am and change into
dean ones. The fust changing
room match has been made
between a trader from Merrill
Lynch and a City PA “I can’t
tdl you names but they've just
got married." says Brown,
who is obviously scoring a hit
wife fee ladies. He reports 60
per cent of the suits he deans

MEN in Short Trousers. The
Frolicking Frogs and The
Diplomatic Bags... not the
programme for the next Cam-
bridge Footlights but the
teams from Prudential. Amer-
ican Express and the Foreign
Office who hope to be at fee
Paris Hilton for Maastricht
day on Sunday. Abbey Nat-
ional and Hill Samuel are
among other City firms send-
ing four-person teams, which
wifi set on by car from fee Bar-
bican on Saturday in Oxfam's
“Great Paris Challenge".
There are still places and every
team feat raises £250 for Ox-
fam. and gets to Paris in 24
hours, wfl] have its petit de-
jeuner free at the Hilton.
Those who raise £500 will also

receive a free sea crossing, and

those raising ten times their
hotel bill has their bill paid.
Contact Liz on 0865 3 1 3464.

From Professor G. Scott

Debra Isaac

Sir, The thesis outlined by M r
Hills (Business Letters, Sep-
tember H) that the environ-
mental impaa of packaging
should be assessed “from the
cradle to fee grave" is com-
mendable, but fee example he
has chosen to illustrate it is
singularly inappropriate.

Expanded polystyrene may
be resource efficient for its
primary purpose, but when it
appears in fee waste stream it
is highly energy intensive to
dispose of, due to its extremely
low density. ’

Collection and transport for
recycling is normally prohibi-
tively energy expensive relative
to the value of fee recycled
product (as Mr Hills points
out. it is 98 per cent air!) and
in landfill it causes severe
problems for the same reason.
Furthermore, Mr Hills ig-
nores completely the environ-
mental impact of EPS when it

is discarded as fitter. It is
particularly visible and persis-
tent in fee sea and on the sear
shore where it is found in
quantity due to its non-
biodegradabfliiy.

Recycling, or for feat maner
any other means of collection
and disposal, is simply not an
option for both financial and
energetic reasons and the only
practical solution is to enhance
its degradability by one of fee
available degradable plastics
technologies; a policy which
the British Plastics Federation
has consistently opposed.

From Mr John Willis
Sir, Your Business Comment
(September 9 on the MMC
report on pubs) flatly states
feat the "huge difference be-
tween fee price of a pint in fee
provinces and London" has to
do with wages, rents and rates.

One gets weary of this jjtiib
excuse for fee pub prices
cruelly inflicted on Londoners.
The difference does not apply
to sugar from Sainsbuiy.
shirts from Marks, deodorant
from Boots, paint from Wool-
worths. ... it does not even
apply to beer sold retail. What-
ever fee additional costs of
trading in London may be. all
these goods cost the same
there as in the provinces.

Not so the pint in a pub.
One can only conclude that
Londoners have been so con-
ditioned to paying more than
the rest of the country for their
beer, that they dodtety contin-
ue to do so without protest
What a marketing triumph for
the brewers and the licensed
trade!

Yours faithfully.

JOHN S. M. WILLIS,

57 HDlmorton Road.

Rugby.

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Gamaase Home. 1608 Mnmrri ScrtxL
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MANAGEMENT

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9X00

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2X00

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3.900

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1,400

HSBC

5X00

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1X00

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9X00

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4X00

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Scot A New 4 90
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svm Trent 1.700
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Slebe 2.100

SnUUBcb 3600
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New York (mid da#

Dow Jones 3358.12 (*52.421

SAP Composite 423.73 M-IS)

ToJqro;

NacknAVge 18471,40 (*363.7JJ

Hong Kong:

Hang Seng 5607.15 {*69.86)

Amsterdam:

CBS Tendency 1 13.2 (*4U»

Sydney: AO 1536.7 (+35^)

Frankfurt:

OAX 1595.04 (+67^4)

FTSE Euro 100: 1073.79 >4023

Brussels:

General 5483.48 {*138.55)

Paris: CAC 495.2! {*13.72)

Zurich: SKA Gen dosed

London:

FT A AJFShsre 1 140.51 (*21.60)

FT 500 1 283.54 (*23.71)

FT Gold Mines 73.1 (*5.1)

FT Food Interen 106.46 {*) .00)

FT Gofl Secs 90,11 (*1.28)

Bargains 246)4

SEAQ Volume 537.9m

USM (Datasmn) 1 1 3_5 1 K>.52).

Fim Dealings Last Dealings Last P e ds rai i o o For Statement

Sep*ember 14 September 21 December 10 December 21

Gill options were taken oat on 1479/92: Amour* Amstrad. Avean. Arena. AS DA.
Buxton, Clarke Food* Fiions. Fort* Haemocefl. Premier Con* Oil Drnnac. Tiphook.
Pms Euro Disney. Kaion.

Pbts ft CaScOiK Old* Clarie Foods.

FT-SE 100

Three Month Ster&Mj

Prefloos open bneitsc 27C&4 1

Three Mth EorodoDar

OofeVofame

2428X 18456
24725 5018

89.72 1641 1
89.74 65557
9022 6621

Exchange index compared with 1 985 was ap at 9 1 .6
(day’s range 91.2-91-6).

Previous open fananest: 35023

Dec 92 _

96X6

96X7

96X4

96X4

3313

Three Mth Euro DM
Previous open interest 374527

Sep 92 -
Dec 92 _

90X0

91.15

90.90

91X1

90X0

90X0

90.68

9105

32163

79912

US Treasury Bond

Previous open bne 1441

Sep 92 „
Dec 92-

107-27

106-30

107-27

106-30

107-20

10603

107-12

10605

ISO

436

Long Gill

Prewocs opeflfcnerrsc 06576

Sep 92 -
Dec 92.

984)7

9804

9809

98-30

9804

9801

9808

98-16

130

58954

Japanese Govmt Bond

Dec 92 _
Mar93

106X0

106X2

I06.1 1

106.12

105X2

1048

0

German Govrot Bond

PYevtoos open intense 141652

Dec 92..
Mar 93

90X7

90X8

89.99

90.16

90X0

77164

0

Three tncuth ECU

Previous opm fawnest 13775

Sep 92 -
Dec 92.

89X0

89X0

89X0

89.78

89.00

89X0

89.15

89X8

370

2250

Euro Swiss Franc

Previous open menrest 52375

Sep 92 .
Dec 92 .

92X0

92.75

92.70

92.97

92X0

92X0

92X6

92X8

350

9679

Itahaa Govrot Bond
Prevfau* open imerest 29062

Dec 92 .
Mar 93

94X0

9505

93X2

93X3

94.63

24643

0

W

n V;

REPORT: Cocoa futures largely erased earlier losses by die
dose while rolusta coffee Bnishal around the dmfs krws. The
cocoa market had earlier come under pressure from further
long liquidation by industry and trade sources after heavy
sales on Friday. Pnces fdl despite a sharp rise in the value of
die dollar. Wheat physical markets led futures unchanged to
sran with but eased lower during the day.

LONDON FOX GNI LONDON

COCOA GRAIN FUTURES

Sep S90-S89 Dee 727-726 WHEAT

Dec 6I6-6J5 Mar 752 BID. (dose £4

M*r 646-645 May 768-767 Sep 11400

Mty 665-663 Jul 790:786 Nov 1 15J5

Jul 68245S1 Jan 11*70

Sep 701*699 Volume 5140 Mar 121.85

ROBUSTA COFFEE (9 ^ — vST^ 5 ,}!

Sep 737-730 Mty 790-78S Vohnne IJ5

Nov 748*747 id 8(0-795 raBLEV

Jan 765-763 Sep S3DS17

Mar 779-778 Vcbuaet974 s_ mq<m

me Sen .

RAW SUGAR (FOB) Nov _

COmraft— r M^r 202-200 Jm _

Spot 221 J) Aag — 2052M5 j 0 Mtr_

Oct 210.649.0 Oa 204.0-94.0 Mty _

Dec 704,6-05.6 Dec 205XW2.0

Mv 202.6X20 Volume 163

WHITE SUGAR (FOB)

Rentas Mty __ 266365 5 Oa _

Spot 2822) Aug — 270X68. 1 DecII

Oa 2653612) Oa — - 261.069.1 pti) _

Dee 261-0600 Dec 261J69.I ^ ~

Mar 264.063J Votamc 1080 jS H

MEAT ft LIVESTOCK COMMISSION
Average toa otk pr ic e* a rt ts esn aa nye m.

maAes on September 14

BARLEY

frfaseE*

1 09 JO

112.75

— 1 16.50

119 JO

121.80

Votamc 40

BJ-PROSOYA
ktaeU 0

125.00

125X0

127.00

128.00

IC3S-L0R (London 6.00pm): Bullish rumours
surrounding the outcome Wednesday's Opee
meeting, sent levds higher.

CRUDE OHS (Stand FOB)

Brenr Physical 20.65 *0J5

ftmtlSdtypa) ; 2a 70 *030

Bmn 15 day (NovJ 20.70 -4U0

WTejms ImetmedW (OcD 22.25 *035

W Texas Imtnmdrtte (New) 22.15 *0.35

PRODUCTS

Spot OF NW Europe (pmpt defiwrj)
Prfnnnm Gas -15 _ H&219H) OBer221f*l

Gasoil EEC 191*41 192 U

Non EEC 1H Oa — 194 {*3) 195 (*J

Nan EEC 1H Noe _ 198 *4) 199 H

33 Pod Oil 89 -1 90 M

Naphtim _ — _ — . 191 *1) 193 (*2

EPE FUTURES
GNILM
GASOIL

Oa 193269330 J*a.— _ 1973097.75

— iMLTSftuw

Dec 197.75-98X0 Mar 188X0-8830

Vot 10323

BRENT MOpmi

ga 203M0.70. Jm 2055 SLR

Nw — 2038-2069 Feb - . . 20J5 BID

Dec 2031-2035 v&TttiM

yotane 0

POTATO

Opa CJcse
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S=S I

Calls

Sep 138 85 41 13 4 I

Oa 170 130 88 63 35 20

NOV 156 154 117 90 62 42

Dec 212 179 HZ 109 85 60

Jim 285 - 225 * 164

Pats

Sep 2 5 12 35 80 ISO

CW 24 3$ 45 70 95 145

W-) -0J9 -0,99 *0.14

cm. 1 a* ,1 Ti » . .. „ 1 Eng/Wales — . 81 J7 71 JO 109.77

M W. . — 160 Zl 31 3B 9 21 21 I «S . 71 XI M

PI 70 4) 180 12 22 30 20 28 33

Soto No* FefcMty Nov Feb May

*030 -0.73 *027

--7 A -39.4 -38.9

81.71 6824 111.79 oa

-5A8 -3.95 -0X2

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RUBBER
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Oa— unf 1053 Volumes _* Z __

UNLEADED GASOUNE

0« 214JKHS.00 Jan oto

Nty — — 20930-14.00 Feb 206.00-i2.00

Dec n/a V*55

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70 1155 1161

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LONDON METAL EXCHANGE RtalfWMff
Ci * : ^7U'l2J3 ; 0jB* : 1296.0.12973 Wst 968075
33150-332.00 36000

1355^-!356X 1 335JM336J) 4401 75

6715*67200 8605

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Australia

Austria .

Belgium (Com)

— 1 .3636-1X646
10.49-1051

30.70-3074

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S .7440-5 -7 590

— 5.0560-5.0660

lVenurl

France

n*mniit» ..

Ireland _ . -

i. 7800-1.7900

1 ] 74.0-1 176.0

Netherlands

Noway — .

1.6665-1.6685

— 5.8970-5,9070

Portugal

— 130X6- 130.40

Spam

Sweden _
Swioerland

96X5-96.75

— 5.4620-5,4720

— IX180-1J190

Base Jams Clearing Banks 10 Hnance Hse lOS

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Kies sepc 23. 199210 0025, 1992 Scheme I: ]lJ8%.ScterE«ilftSui i tiWkBate^e
rare August 1. 19® » August 28. 1992 soinne tv ft V:

Fimieh Freac
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High U>w Company

Price

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148

97

155

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433

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171

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64 464

63 120
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11 130

64 KL7

53 61
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69 S3

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197

350

143

291

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440

198

518

435

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472 Bn
146 BodOtegtoo
243 Baton (HP)

112 B u/in awd Btw
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380 Scot 6 New
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ACCOUNT DAYS: Dealings began September 7. Dealings end September 1 8. §Contango day September 21. Sentanent
d«y September 28. §R>rward bargains penmued on two previous business days. Prices recorded are at mariot dose.
Change are calculated an the previous day's dose, but adjustments are made when a stock is ex-dividend. Changes, yields
and pnee/earmngs ratios are based on miadk prices.

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280

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92

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230

487

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453

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182

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350

389

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382

178

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197

231

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382

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63 68

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FINANCIAL TRUSTS

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213 L« Ekrnia in • 6 64 46 342

785 540 Hendon Ad 550 • 2 410 69 113

« SO lmerco mm $7 * 2 ... 7.1 62

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399 364 MAM 2t6 * 1 115 56 105

662 463 M 6 G 466 *2 190 54133

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479

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332

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163

305

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FOCUS

THE TIMES TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1992

The drive that inspired deprived areas

The Prince of
Wales p resente
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communities that
have striven to
improve their
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T he Community Enterprise
Scheme has oome a long
way since it started in
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tion of the Prince of Wales. The'
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tor of The Times, and the drive he
and his companions applied
caught the iraagmatfon of commu-
nities in deprived areas.

Today, the scheme’s main spon-
sors are again The Times, the Rqyal
Institute of British Architects and
Business in the Community.

The idea is simple: to inspire,
encourage and hdp people to help
themselves. People know what they
lack, but they do not possess the
resources or the techniques.

Mr Douglas-Home and his pio-
neering colleagues saw that; given
the advice and resources, the people
have the spirit, imagination and
determination to design and build
what they need to. improve their
own built environment
This is the seventh year of a great
glorious and invaluable competi-
tion. It is an exciting competition, it
has produced magnificent im-
provements to the built environ-
ment, and it provides: a joyous -,
occasion in its annuaf awards day. .

This year, for the first time, the
awards day is in Edinburgh, not
London. The scheme is the guest of
foe Scottish people, who have
always supported it with enthusi-
asm. It is a fine thing that foe prize-
winners and those 'who have won
commendations and honourable

THE Prince of Wales wiD present
awards in Edinburgh Castle today
to those who have laboured in
humbler surroundings to improve
others’ lives. John Young writes.
The seventh annu-
al Community En- \Vl

terpnse Scheme. ^ (

sponsored by The
Times; the Royal sr Jfo
Institute of British C /w
Architects and 2 °o j 0

Business in the & | [

Community, invit- ^ |

ed community vv **
groups to enter
imaginative build- «iV’

ing projects. The
prince is the scheme’s patron.
Most of foe 87 entries in the nine
categories were carried out on
modest budgets, but they could
show what can be achieved in the
depths of a recession.

A feature of the scheme is the

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support such projects receive from
local people, and the almost total
absence of theft and vandalism.
The assessors wet* particularly im-
pressed by the enthusiasm on the
Broadwater Farm
ES/jb, estate, in Totten-

> oJAk ham. north Lon-

don. scene of riots
in 1985 in which a
m 2 police constable

fV ]**“ died. There are 16

rfiVj)| P- category awards,

CqX> S; 18 commendations

yi A/ and 39 honourable

• ' vww " flV mentions. The

Charles Douglas-
Home award, in
memory of the late editor of The
Times, goes to a project in

Scotland where there has been
particular interest The sponsors
include the Royal Incorporation of
Architects in Scotland and Scot-
tish Business in the Community.

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Saved: the pond in Bethnal Green the council would have built over

‘ Lord Scarman: “sheer guts”

mentions’, should gather with the
sponsors and workers, in the com-
pany irffoepspincMo cdebrate their
acfaievetoents-iB - the splendid set-
ting of Edinburgh Castle. I men-
tion a few of the great achievements
so .foatihe flavour of foe competi-
tion may be savoured.

“Green Homes in. Bethnal
Green" is a classic triumph of a
community defending its. environ-
ment which included a play space
and nature area. The ideal author-
ity wanted to build over this area.'
The people were furious; enlisted
the help of foe Tower Hamlets
Environment Trust, arid worked
out a plan for a public square
surrounded by affordable housing
with a playground and park. To its
great credit, the council accepted
their, plan.

Pedcet Well College, West York-

shire. was founded in 1985 to offer
residential education to people with
reading and writing difficulties.
The group was markedly successful
in raising money from the private
sector, the public sector, and volun-
tary organiWtions. The group, with

splendid assistance from its archi-
. tect. is the first UK body to provide
a residential centre for basic educa-
tion — in literary, numeracy and
English, for example.

The participants help to plan
their courses, and the group has
built its own college. The result, to
quote the assessors: “A budding
which is foe physical manifestation
of a whole number of experiences,
and of foe creativity and sheer
determination of the individuals
who have come together through
this project.”

Chappd is an Essex village, of
about 400 inhabitants. With foe
support of its neighbour. Wakes
Qjlne, it has undertaken “an
ambitious programme of environ-
mental improvement, clearing out
and restoring the village pond and
building a play area". The assessors
report ? TFhe entire community of
Chappd and Wakes Colne have
been involved, and the final prod-
uct is absolutely right for the site."

In addition, the children have
built their own play equipment out
of scrap material.

The scheme is a modern revela-
tion of the spirit and sheer guts of
our people. Long may it prosper.

Lord Scarman

Homes beat handicap I Co-op puts people first

Top award goes
to housing
for disabled

F our mentally handi-
capped people are now
enjqying a new life in
their own purpose-built homes
within the Aberdeen com-
munity after the completion of
foe Garthdee Project, which
brought together several agen-
cies under foe co-ordination of
the Cornerstone Society, a
registered charity.

The concept to provide
pood-quality, ordinary hous-
ing within the community was
relatively simple. However, de-
signing foe homes, keeping
the cost within practical
boundaries, making foe com-
plex as unobtrusive as possible
and, above all involving local
residents and the household-
ers themselves are not so easy.
The project wins foe Charles
Douglas-Home Award for the
most outstanding entry and
foe Community Enterprise
Award for Partnership.

Five years ago Cornerstone
learned that Scottish Homes,
formerly the Scottish Special
Housing Association, was to
redevelop accommodation
and wanted to provide a

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Home sweet home: friends gather to celebrate with the residents of the Garthdee Project

complex for people with men-
tal handicaps and associated
physical problems.

The design parameters of
what became known as the
“core" house in the project
meant it should be as pleasant
as that required by able-
bodied people, foe special
facilities needed must not

mark the house out in an
obtrusive way and. essentially,
the house should be seen as
belonging to the residents,
four severely disabled people.
Moreover, foe cost would have
to be low so that any authority
could copy the idea elsewhere.

The Cornerstone Society
formed a steering committee

of representatives of the' resi-
dents ’ parents, Grampian
health board, foe regional
social work department,
Aberdeen council. Scottish
Homes and neighbours. That
it succeeded so well is a tribute
to their commitmenL

Kerry Gill

Residents create
a community
from a slum

P eople first, eveiytiring
else second. This was
the . motto of foe
Ormiston People's Action
Group when its members
decided a housing co-opera-
tive was the way to regenerate
Ormiston Crescent, Dundee.
Kerry GUI writes.

Ormiston Crescent is within
the Whitfield estate, which was
regarded as “difficult to let" by
foe local council from its
completion in foe early 1970s.

Most families had to climb
four stores to reach their front
doors. To hang out- washing
they had to go back down the
smus. and there was nowhere
for children to play safely.

In 1983 an. action group
was formed with foe aim of
forcing improvements. Al-
though foe council improved
three blocks, more and more
homes became empty. In
1987 the action group formed
a housing co-operative.

The next year a multi-
million-pound funding pack-
age was announced by the
Housing Corporation, now
Scottish Homes. Dundee

Happier days: now the children play on the housing estate at Ormiston Crescent

council gave foe group a
£10,000 start-up grant and
helped to train the people in
collecting rent arrears, letting
houses and employing staff. In
1 988 tire group registered as a
housing association.

The architects worked
alongside tenants to draw up
suitable designs, from wallpa-

per to the new pitched roofs.
By December 1 988 the people
had bought their houses from
the council and during foe
summer of 1990 the first two
phases were completed.

The remaining 270 homes
bought from the council were
demolished and there is now a
programme to build 124 new

houses with their own front
and back gardens.

‘ One member said: “This co-
op is about a lot more than jost
buD dings and concrete. It is
about a community that has
taken knocks but has fought
back to create a place where
oim children will be happy and
pgSjd to stay."

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LIST of winners of Community
Enterprise Scheme Awards, 1992
Category I. Housing Associations
Charitable Trust Award Jbr Hous-
ing. sponsored by die trust and
Kingfisher pic Green Homes in
Betfioal Green, London E2;
Ormiston People’s Housing Co-
operative; Dundee. Commenda-
tion: Chancel Com, London Wl.
Category 2. Gulbenkian Award for
Community Buildings, sponsored
fry the Caknisie Gulbenldan
Foundation: Bubwidt Leisure
Centre, Selby, North Yorkshire
The CaUhorpe Project Com-
munity Building. London WCI;
Routing & District Irish Associ-
ation Centre. Reading. Berkshire;
Commendations: Addles tone
Community Centre Extension
Project. Addlestone. Surrey; Avon-
way Community Centre. Ford-
in gb ridge, Hampshire: Bromes-
berrow Parish Hafl. Ledbury.
Herefordshire: Gainsborough
Park Community & Learning
Centre. St Austefi. Cornwall.
Category 3. National Children's
Pi ay Award, sponsored by the
National Children's Play and
Recreation Unit Chappd Coo-
serration V olun te er s. Colchester.
Essex. Commendations:
Haddetoc Playground Restora-
tion Fund. Haddeton. North-
amptonshire: Leroy & James
Playpark. Hulrae. Manchester;
Reay Primaiy School Playground
Improvement. London SW9.
Category 4. The Times Environ-
ment Award: The London Wild-
life Garden Centre, London
SE1S. Commendations: Chisel-
don to Marlborough Railway
Path, Marlborough. Wiltshire;
Garaethill Park, Glasgow;
HiWShdf Toad Tunnel Project.
Sheffield; North Shields Fish
Quay Environment Improvement.
North Shields, Tyne & Wear. St
Thomas's Church Peace Gardens,
Edgbastoa Birmingham.

Category S.The Community
Enterprise Business Award, spon-
sored by United Biscuits (UK):

Broadwater Community Enter-
prise Centre, Loudon NI7; East
MlddDesbroagh Community Ven-
ture, Thontfree, Middlesbrough.
Category 6. Community Enter-
prise Award for Training, spon-
sored by Marks & Spencer Bdcoo
Enterprise Centre. Co Ferman-
agh; East/West Women's Employ-
ment project Mkhttcsbittogh.

Category 7. Rural Community
Initiative Award, sponsored % the
Post Office Co-Chomann Bhstr-
raidJu Isle of Barra. Westerly,

Playtime at Chappel

Isles Pedcet Wdl College Project,
Pecket Well. West Yorkshire.

Commendation: Fainide Centre

Sculptured Conservation Garden,
Lydney. Gloucestershire.

Category 8. Community Enter-
prise Award for Partnership, spon-
sored by Kwik-Fn Holdings: The
Cbraeratone Garthdee Project.
Aberdeen. Commendations:
Church Street Refurbishment
Project. Shipley. West Yorkshire;
St Anne's Church Redevelopment,
London Wl: Woolwich Common
Youth Chib ft Community Facu-
lties, London SE 18.

Category 9. RIBA Community
Architecture Award: The Nia

Centre, Manchester; The Patmore
Centre. London SW8. Com-
mendations: Kingsmead Neigh-
bourhood Scheme. Bath;
Navarino Mansions Sheltered
Accommodation, London E8.

The Chirks Douglas-Home

Award for the most outstanding
entry overall from the nine cate-
gories: C or ners to ne Garthdee
Project Aberdeen.

Honourable Mentions (by cate-
gory). 1. Beamed Memorial Dev-
elopment. London Wl; Hector
Petersen Court, Liverpool: Syihei
Housing Co-operative, London
El: Korczak House CtaBdren’s
Home, London SW2; The Manor
(a home for mentally handicapped
children). Peterborough; Park Hill
Housing Cooperative, London.
SW4; Rawnscraft Rebuild Hous-
ing Co-operative, Kirkby. Mersey-
side; The Roberts Centre,
Portsmouth: Stothard Road Hous-
ing Project Sheffidd-

2. Aughaldltymaude Community
Centre, Co: Fermanagh: The
Cornerstone .Community Centre,
Hove, East Sussex: Maerdy Com-
munity Centre. Rhondda. Mid
Glamorgan; Spamount Com-
munity Project. Co Tyrone The
Vera Fletcher Hall, Thames
Ditzon. Surrey.

3- ADhaflows Conservation Play
. Park. Cariisk. Cumbria: Amec-
sham Children’s Playground,
Amersham, Buckinghamshire:
Grange First School Playground:
London W5.

4. Arch Case Bank Enhancement
Scheme, Lang Ashton. Avon;
Heritage/Nature Trails Project,
Bdcoo. CO. Fermanagh: The
Boathouse, Edinburgh; Casliederg
Regeneration & Improvement
Schema Co Tyrone: Merton Ab-
bey MBs. London SWIQ; Nubia 1
Street Neighbourhood Park, Bel- ,
fast St Aldan’s Nature Garden.
Belfast The Sedgewick Aqueduct
Project, Sedgwick. Cumbria;
Snabey Path Environmental
Improvement Scheme, Belfast:
Tenby Bandstand. Tenby. Dyfed:
King’S Cross Railway lands
Group, London.

5. Overall Clothing, Newcastle
upon Tyne.

6. Momingion Enterprises Com-
munity Work Project, Belfast.

7. Beaminster Museum Trust,
Beanrinsar. Dorset: Brook Farm
Community Association, Malvern,
Worcesterhire; The Harrow Inn.
Marlborough. Wiltshire; The New
Lonastock Village Hall.
SlOckbridge, Hampshire:
Tonnawr 2000. Port Talbot, West
Glamorgan; Upton Village Hall
Extension, Newark. Nottingham-
shire: Youth Route 70. Douglas.
Lanarkshire.

9. Hunters Hail Housing Co-
operative. Edinburgh.

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LAW TIMES

Is it fair to blame lawyers for mortgage cheating? Two experts suggest ways of soMng this growing problem

Building barriers to fraud

A inraberofmor

fraudsters

}a&d ' in recent

weeks. There win be
more. Alter the controls on
buDding societies were relaxed
by the Building Societies Act
1986, the organisations were
able to compete with banks in
providing funds for commer-
cial loans. They became prey
to frauds, particularly in the
leisure and retirement home
industries.

Fraud has probably always

been associated with domestic

and small-scale business se-
cured borrowing — these have
been optimistic valuations and
i nflated figures for incomes
and profits. In a stable ma rket
most of this goes undetected.
In a rising market the lender
often unknowingly profits. In
a foiling market the fraud
tends to become exposed, in
worse times the receding- tide
shows up an ama zing amount
of wreckage. The mortgagees
cannot even sefl their security.

Societies then wonder how
valuers could have placed such
values on many of these prop-
erties and businesses. Outsid-
ers wonder how societies could
have lent with such abandon
on the valuations they .were
given. Enquiries info the con-
veyancing quality of some
sotidtms have embarrassed
theprofesskm.

The more brazen civil and
criminal cases are now corning
to trial In tire spring, several
sets of borrowers, solicitors
and valuers were jailed far
between 12 and 24 months.
In midsummer, more “went
down.

In formal terms, die blame
is being spread, and the con-
sequences are far-reaching.
The sums are staggering. In-
demnity premiums are shoot-
ing up and so are contribu-
tions to professional bodies*
compensation funds.'

Building societies largety
withdrew from c o mmercial
lending. Having stocked up
with extra banking staff; they
are now hying them off The
guarantiee insafahcS'-Teobi^
panics, which have, suffered .
teffly,' have ceased thrift for-
mer cosy relatronsbipswilhthe
societies and reflised to. pay
without at least questioning
whether a society's procedures
have been followed.

The societies went info com-
mercial lending without prop-
er preparation.. Decision-
makers at reputable societies
with many years’ solid experir
ence In residential WvHmg
seem not to have passed on die
message that, documentation
they had been using in that
sednrwoukl not be suitable for
commercial tending.

There is. of course, little
point in having a bticks-and-
mortar charge over a small
betel where, to preserve the
value, you must be able to deal
with tiie liquor licence, the
fixtures, fittings furniture and
equipment and; goodwill in-
cluding tire right to continue
it&igrfee nametojoder which
tbe busjnesp has operated, and
be ahleto give rac av efsrs tti^ .
able powers. .... - .. w:-.*. -.

There are many cases in
whidi standard form resklere
tial private borrower security
and other documentation has

been sent to solicitors for
completion by companies and
business partnerships, and
residential oonveyancmg solic-
itors have not noticed or tried
to adapt it Often they have not
registered charges at the Com-
panies Registry.

Company and insolvency
lawyers have subsequently
wept over the.task of making
sense of documents that did
not begin to contemplate the
transactions for which they
were used.

he societies were not
tbe only ones to
blame. There is hard-
ty an established es-
tate agency without experts to
give evidence in cases against
nVals, and the lawyers instruc-
ted by the Solicitors’ Indem-
nity Fund are doing well Tbe
solicitors' compensation fond.
farin g claims totalling E30
million, has seen nothing yet

Lords take a liberal turn

THE NEW mat liberal slant
of die House of Lords, the
highest court in the land, was
firmly established last week
with the appointment of the
Omit of Appeal judge. Sir
Hairy Woolf, aged 59, as a
law lord. Lord Justice Woolf,
whose report last year after
the Strangeways prison riots
criticised the prison system,
has a keen reformist streak.

His move on October! into
the vacancy left by Lord
Ackner is the fourth appoint-
ment to the Lords within 12
months. Last autumn. Sir
Nicolas Browne-Wnkinson
and Sir Goondon Stynn. both
also regarded as on tbe jutfr
datys liberal wing, were pro-
moted. akmg with lord
Justice Mastiff

/iKbf?2 Reform: Lord Justice Woolf

The appointments are cer-
tain to mean a shift in the
tenor of judgments from the

law fords on moral and pubfic

law issues, with greater ac-
count taken, for instance; of

tiie European Convention on
Human Rights, which Sir
Harxy strongly believes
should be ■ incorporated into
domestic UK law. Lord Jus-
tice Wooftwhowbadqpoimd
is in public law, was Treasury
counsel for many years before
becoming a High Court judge
and bas done much to develop
the burgeoning area of judi-
cial review, the right of tiie
citizen to challenge overween-
ing decisions by government
bodies. '

He has also promoted tbe
idea of a director of dvD pro-
ceedings with power to
initiate or sponsor cases when
it is in the pubfic interest to
have the courts scrutinise
official decisions.

One of the most popular

and friendly senior judges, he
was tipped to succeed Lord
Donaldson as Master of the
Rolls, a post that has gone to
Lord Justice Bingham, his
Court of Appeal colleague.
However. Lend Justice Woolf
wifi be weD suited to formnlax-
ing law and, increasingly,
social policy, from the House
of Lords.

David Pannick, QC a pub-
lic law specialist, said: “He
and others will bring a more
open-minded willingness to
decide questions by reference
to European law and to the
more liberal standards that
administrative law has been
developing over the last
decade.”

Frances Gibb

Louis’s
last word

JUSTINIAN, the eminence
grise of legal columnists, is
being axed. Sir Louis Bfom-
Cooper says he has written
the Financial Times column

for more than 30 years and it

was felt that was enough- Sir
Louis, knighted in the
Queen’s birthday honours, is
not disheartened. He has so
mudi other work that tbe
cohimn was becoming harder
to fit in. FT sources fay the
change is part of the redesign
of the Monday paper, bat

“Louis wffl stffl be wdcomp to

do the occasional piece”.

Meanwhile. Sir Lows, who
has been sitting as a deputy
High Court judge is stffl
chairing tiie Mental Health
Act Commission. However,
that is only until to
1993. “I am realty looking
around for gainful employ-
ment" Sir Louis says. _

One suggestions tot te

should become chairman oi
the Press Conqtots Gw*

mission at the end rrf 1993 rf
Lord McGregor of Oums

does not want to continue
after his three years.

Stars come out

‘KWS

its first titigaM SUWW
school Among jg™*
t|>s lined-up were Badger

pannone, the vice-president

elect of the Law Society,
Michael Napier of Erwin
MitcfaeD. Judge Michael
Cook, Joel Henning, the se-
nior vice-president of man-
agement consultants Hade-
brandt, and Professor Rich-
ard Susskind. tbe expert com-
mentator.

• Bringing together more
than 30 such high-flyers was

a coup for Coal which is run

by the Nottingham Law
School For Professor Nigel
Savage, it marked tbe cubm-
nation of years of investment
to. put the law school part of
the old polytechnic, on the
map.

Now tot tbie poty has a
university tide, the school
cah soar to new heights, un-
trammelled by aqy anxieties
abort second-class status.

cate at “such major venues”
as Solihull magistrates' court
Mr French has been quali-
fied for tong enough to be
eligible for judicial appoint-
ment I wonder whether the
Lord Chancellor’s Depart-
ment will drop any hints as to
his suitability for the bench.

Peer judgment

EVER since John Taylor, to
solicitor and’ MP, was ap-
pointed* minister in the Lord
Chancellor's Department sot
id tors have been speculating
on what he was like as a prao-

— nr., i

No cigar

A LUNCH hosted by Frere
Cholmeley as part of last
week’s UK European Presi-
dency conference in Westmin-
ster gave Tristan Garektones,
the foreign office minister, a
platform fresn which to berate
the Euireceptics on both
sides of the Commons.

His ability to talk tough
while eating fast made a
favourable impression on his
dining companions, mostly
Frere’s clients. Should the
French say Non to Maas-
tricht Mr. Garel-Jones is
dearly preparing to take the

fight vigorously into the op-
posing camp.

Tbe invitation from Tim
RazzalL. Frere’s chief execu-
tive. to the Tory mini ster was
generous, given that he is a
long-standing stalwart of the
liberal Democrats’ national
executive. However. Mr
Ramil made it dear that
Euro-enthusiasm is de if
gueur at his law firm.

Not quite such a Com-
munitaire spirit was shown by
the Prue Leith waiting staff
Service between meals was as
slow in coming as an EC
directive and the request by
Herr Gerhart Baum, a mem-
ber of the German Bundes-
tag, for a cigar was greeted
with a blunt No.

powered international tax
specialist with a razor-sharp
mini!* ..

In to Criminal law Solici-
tors’ Association newsletter,
Derek French, a Hmmnghain
ufidtoc reminis ces about
seeing TStyfor as " a iaiher
uninsp ir ing afrninal advo-

Party time

WITH summer over and ev-
eryone bade at work London
lawyers are free to resume
their social life, last Thursday
two choice parties were held
in to City. Jarvis & Bannister
hosted their “Night in to
Glasshouse" in to to Barbi-
can Centre’s conservatory
while Waltons & Morse
launched David Wainman’s
new book on pensions at
Painters’ HaD.

But It is predicted that
some of to 'impending big
office moves, such as Clifford
Chance, are going to be dedd-
edly low-key affairs. When to
big City law firms finally
decide to put the lid on their
entertainments; we shall
know that times really are
hard

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SCRIVENOR

Remedies are now being
examined. Society advisers are
having to tread warily in the
minefield of inconsistent
rights. Measures of damages
are being fought over, and to
boundaries of contributory
negligence are going to be
tested. The theoretical capabil-
ities of “the conveyancing sol-
icitor” are being measured
against judge-perceived stan-
dards. The conduct of valuers
against die guidelines of the
Royal Institute of Chartered
Surveyors, and the control of
estate agencies over their own
staff is being looked at Issues
of vicarious liability for fraud
are rife.

There wiD be tough argu-
ments with insurers. The
Court of Appeal was asked last
month to determine to limits
of interim payment applica-
tions in tricky fraud cases.

With luck, if the societies
return to commercial lending.

for a time at least there wiD be
much-improved methods of
assessment and procedures.
Insurance exigencies and oth-
er economies may determine
whether they will continue to
instruct small firms of solid-
tors to act for than and their
borroweis, and on whar terms,
and generally to scope for
fraud should diminish.

However, as the economic
tide continues to fall more
frauds will come to light. The
■ societies were not ready for
them when they began to sur-
face in 1 989, but toy should
now be better equipped to
press their cases against those
professionals ana their in-
surers who have done so weD
oui of them over the years.

In recent weeks. Abbey Nat-
ional and the Halifax, the two
largest building societies, have
issued, or are proposing, re-
vised instructions to solicitors
bn their panels, many of them
to combat mortgage fraud.
Some of these steps merely
stress vigilance but Abbey
National seeks verification of
the identity of the prospective
borrower and guarantors be-
fore exchange of contracts.

Solicitors are trying to put
their own house in order. The
Law Society has issued a
“green paper” to help solicitors
to spot potential fraud. The
society's recent consultation
paper. “The Cost of Default",
and the question of a possible
limit to to amount of com-
pensation the profession is

prepared to pay to financial
iwffll

institutions wffl be main topics
at its conference next month.

There are doubts, however,
whether hitting sole practitio-
ners — held responsible for
much of to fraud — is more
than a distraction. Stronger
standards, particularly among
lawyers and valuers, are need-
ed. If they are to retain
credibility as professionals,
they will have to cany on
bearing responsibility for er-
rant members.

The unanswered question is
whether insurers will continue
to help them to do so, and on
what terms.

Jeremy Le M. Scott

• The author, a partner in
Mackenzie Mins, the London law
firm . specialises in tivil fraud and
corporate insolvency.

The lenders must be

on their guard

MORTGAGE fraud is big business. Esti-
mates of its extent vary fait some analysts
claim that as many as 10 per cent of
mortgage applications are fraudulent and
that up to a El billion has been lent to
fraudsters. These are not just hole-in-the-
wall types operating from accommodation
addreses but professional people. In a
recent case in Liverpool Crown Court, four
solicitors were among the 16 jailed for their
part in a EI.8 milli on fraud.

This is all good entertaining stuff because,
except for a politician or a royal caught
sucking the wrong toes, there is nothing the
pubbe likes more than professionals being
caught oul If you leave aside the image of
smug solicitors being dragged out of what
the media always describe as “luxury
homes” to go to jaff what does it all mean?
Are solicitors involved in tiie 10 per cent of
fraudulent mortgages? Does this mean that
10 per cent of solicitors are
fraudulent?

i think not First, as City
bankers have found, there is
the question of definition.

What is one man ’s standard
business practice is another's
fraud. Mortgage “frauds" can
be divided into three broad
categories, only the first two
of which are likely to result in
prosecution. There is the out
and out fraud where there is
no intention to pay any of the
money back. The property
may not exist and if it does it

over and those involved
disappear when enquiries are
made. Then there is to fraud
involving a genuine property
but false details of to appli-
cants on to mortgage application form. The
purpose is to enable people with bad credit

Patrick

Stevens

records to buy a property, which is then let
is blissfully unaware that the

The lender:
house has been illegally subdivided into
hovdettes. which have bun rented out As
long as to mortgage is paid the lender may
continue in such blissful ignorance. It is only
if the borrower runs short of tenants and de-
faults on the mortgage that the lender will
find ouL

The last and most difficult category is the
mortgage application with fraudulent as-
pects. It is different from the other two
categories because the borrower is genuine
and intends to buy the house for his own
use. There may be reasons why to lender
would not lend if to true arenra stances
were known. The commonest reasons are a
bad credit record or insufficient income to
meet the criteria. Income may be exagger-
ated on lies about previous loan defaults.

Another common deceit and one that
unlike the others, does involve the know-

ledge and assistance of a solicitor, is to
“repairs allowance". This dubious practice
involves the contract for the sale of to
house stating that the seller will on
completion of the sale refund to buyer part
of the purchase price. For example, on a
£100,000 sale only £90,000 might change
hands, although the transfer deed would
show the price as El 00,000. if a lender had
agreed to lend 95 per cent of the purchase
price then the borrower would effectively
have a mortgage of more than 100 percent

There is nothing dishonest about the
arrangement if everybody concerned knows
exactly what is happening. However, it is a
characteristic of the repairs allowance
scheme that the lender is not told what is
going on.

In the 1980s heyday of free and easy
lending, lenders were desperate to lend in
what seemed to be a never-ending housing
boom. Often a building soci-
ety manager would make it
dear that he did not want to
know all the details lest he
have to refuse to lend. The
justification for sloppy lend-
ing practices was that house
unices were going up all the
rime and even if a loan went
sour, the property could readi-
ly be sold at a substantial
profit and nobody would
suffer.

The days of the 100 percent
mortgage and no references
taken up are gone now and
tore is a new mood of
caution in the mortgage mar-
ket. The big insurers in the
mortgage indemnity market

have tightened their terms

and are no longer prepared to
underwrite reckless lending. The optimistic
belief is that the worst is over.

My own Experience is that some of the big
lenders are still blind when it comes to dubi-
ous practices. This is usually because lend-
ing procedures are operated by junior staff
who rarely look at the overall picture.

One of my partners was acting for a
building society in a possession action when
he noticed that the society had tent nearly 10
percent more than to original value of the
property. No mortgage repayments had ever
been marie. Smelling fraud he telephoned
to society only to be told that to loan was
afl right because it was less than three times
the borrower’s stated income.

Mortgage fraud is a large problem.
Tariffing it requires a concerted effort. It is
no use the lenders expecting everybody else
to detect it They need to train their own
staff to be much more alert. In the tort
term this may increase to cost of borrow-
ing. In the long term it is bound to reduce it

i The author is a practising solicitor in Clwyd.

mmmammmimn

LONDON

il

COMPANY/COMMERCIAL
To £Partnership

Dynamic company/rammeraal bwyer with a r
least 5 years’ pqe sot^K. Strong ted*wal skffls
with commerced acumen required to handle a
broad range of matters. Exceflent prospects for
a lawyer with proven rainmaking abffides. Reft
T6825

BANKING
To £70,000

Soring partnership prospects offered to htyi-
flying 5-6 year qualified banking lawyer,
preferably from sknfiariy prestigious Gty firm.
Expanding client base offers an exceptional
variety of work. Unique opportunity. Reft
T635I

COMMERCIAL LITIGATION
To £53,000

Burgeoning litigation group within growing

dal and

London practice seeks commercial
cechnlcaliy able Boguor. 2-4 years qualified, to
play key role in expansion of department High
quaflty caseload matched by excellent salary.
Reft T6954

INSOLVENCY

£Top

Experienced contentious and/or non-
oontentious insolvency lawyer, with at least 3
years’ experience sought by Gty practice going
from strength to strength. Strong practice
development skfls ess en tial. Good partnershp
prospects. Reft T6906

TAX

To £50^000

Corporate tax bwyer with vmefcaual agility, a
trade record of achievement and at least a
year's relevant pqe sought by international City
practice with undoubtedly leading tax depart-
ment. Reft T4597

CONSTRUCTION

£Connf>etitive

Versatile construction lawyer with around 2
years' relevant pqe and an exceHenc personality
required by wrf-known London firm. Attractive
prospects. Non-co mentions skills must be
matched by commercial acumen. Reft T6874

PROPERTY LITIGATION
To £40,000

Brat-race property Itigptor with 1-3 years’ pqe
capable of handling a challenging caseload,
requred by weR-taown Gtor practice. Confident
personalty crudaL Reft T66 1 7

PENSIONS
£C3ty Rate

Highly regarded Gty firm requires capable
pensions lawyer with I or more years' high
calibre experience to contribute to existing
team. Must boast impressive academic back-
ground. Reft T6752

PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY
To £39,000

Prestigious medium-sized Gty practice seeks
IB month-2 year qualified lawyer, with
excelent professional indemnity experience for
cop quality work. Exceptional salary and benefits
package. Reft T6993

Far further information, h complete confidence, pfcose concoct Stephen Rodney or SoHle Hawking fboth sofleftoraj on 071-405 6M2 (071-354 3079
i-MjfrtiiiWr*riirhJ Of wnlr m ifirm nr fTimny Pnnjptlf Pmrr'-nrnr 9 Pit — 1 — c ~— «*«i fr- m i_b?i 5394 .

UNITED KINGDOM

QUARRY DOOGALL

HONG KONG • NEW ZEALAND

AUSTRALIA - USA

Lawyer

FOR CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

Excellent
Remuneration
including car
+ benefits

N. London

John Laing pic is one of the top
construction, civil and mechanical
engineering companies in the UK,
offering a range of traditional and
specialist contracting services for large
and small scale contracts. The Group
also operates in private housing and
property development, with a
Technology Division providing
professional services in the area of
design and technology.

Our Legal Sendees Department
maintains dose liaison with all the
various Group operating activities and
you can took forward to an unusual
degree of variety, involving extensive
dierrt contact In this new role, which
has arisen due to expansion and an
ongoing commitment to handling legal
matters 'in-house', you will be
responsible for both litigation and
commercial work, encompassing
everything from high court and
arbitration to drafting commercial

contracts and advising on joint
ventures.

A solicitor or barrister, qualified for
around 3 years, you wilt already have
experience of handling corporate
clients within either industry or private
practice.

A background in to construction
industry is not essential.

An attractive remuneration package
indudes a competitive salary,
company car and a rwn-contrfoutory
pension fund with free life assurance.

If you are interested in finding out more
about this new position, then please
write or telephone for an appBcation
form to:

D R Heard, Senior Personnel Manager,
John Laing pic. Page Street, Mill Hfill,
London NW7 2ER. Tet 081 906 5308.

The John Laing Group is an Equal
OpportuntiBS Employer.

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071-481 4481

LEGAL APPOINTMENTS

071-481 9313
071-782 7828

IT/TELECOMS

£ 100.000 - £ 250.000

Our Client is one of the leading and most profitable full service City firms. It
has developed an enviable competitive edge as an international corporate
and commercial law firm and now seeks an additional Partner to join in the
further development of the broadest aspects of its thriving information
technology and telecommunications practice.

The firm's practice in this area straddles IT, telecommunications, broadcasting,
satellite and cable It acts for an array of international and domestic household
names - manufacturers, providers and users, many of them market leaders in
their spheres. Resulting instructions embrace a variety of complex issues including
the full spectrum of commercial matters - advisory, transactional and regulatory.

The successful candidate, ideally aged between 35 and 45, will be a recognised
name hi the IT sphere with Silicon Valley orientated experience. Prerequisite is a
proven ability to contribute to the further development of the firm’s IT practice

The total package will be highly attractive by the standards of any major City
firm and will include an immediate partnership in this significant practice'

Fbrfinther information h complete confidence, phase contact Gareth Quany or Deborah Dtdgjehh an 07 1-405 6062
(071-228 5345 or 081-520 6559 eMsningfaeekends) or write to them at Quarry Dougati Recruitment, 9 Bmmlaw
Street. London WCfVty&ConfxfentW fox; 071-831 6394. (rntjtd dhcusdons can be held on a no names basis.

QUARRY DOUGALL

UNITED KINGDOM • HONG KONG * NEW ZEALAND . • AUSTRALIA * USA

COMPLIANCE/LEGAL APPOINTMENTS

Noble Lowndes is the UK's leading employee benefits consultancy and one of the largest
providers of independent financial advice.

The stature and breadth of our in-house legal and compliance teams has grown rapidly
creating the need to fill the following key positions:

HEAD OF COMPLIANCE (REF PCA 3)

c£45k benefits car

This role provides a. challenging and exciting opportunity to head up a highly active
Compliance Department. Reporting to the Legal Director, the Head of Compliance will
provide advice and assistance to all parts of our UK operations in relation to investment
business issues. The position carries with it the responsibility of Compliance Officer and
surveillance functions.

Applicants should have an in-depth knowledge of FSA compliance requirements and
procedures, particularly in line with IMRO. A minimum of 3 years’ work experience in a
compliance team, together with 5 years’ experience of the financial services industry is required.

PRINCIPAL LEGAL ADVISER (REF PLA

c£45k - benefits — car

Reporting to the Legal Director, the Principal Legal Adviser will advise on a wide range of
corporate, commercial and pension law issues contributing to the development of the
business and minimising the Company's exposure to legal liability. The jobholder will also be
responsible for the day-to-day management of the Legal Department and will oversee the
exercise of proper professional standards.

BRUSSELS

PARTNER/SENSOR LAWYER
£100,000 - £175,000 plus

Fuelled by the tremendous challenge offered by its growing global market, our Client,
undoubtedly one of the most profitable, focused and determined law firms, has enjoyed
unprecedented growth, both nationally and internationally, particularly in the last five years.
Earnings continue to increase materiafly throi^hout the recession. It now seeks a further
senior lawyer, ideally aged between 30 and40, for Its established Brussels office to replace a
parmer returning to the UK.

TTie firm acts fbr{a diverse client base of substantial quoted and large independent private
axnparttes, faiandal institutions, insurance companies, building societies and public authorities.
EC in^nfetiphs embracecompetition law (including merger control, notifications, compliance,
IP andother commeraal agreeme n t s) , made and environmental law, inward Investment, public
procitten^nt; funding free movement, collaborative ventures and EC relations.

i." • ■ ‘ *■ .. • „•*! jit; - ■■

The successful candidate will be either a partner or senior assistant in London or Brussels with
a comnierdal/EC background. Recognising the need for individualism and innovation,
attributes wffl indude vision, an ambitious, outgoing personality, business development skills
and the energy to seize this unique opportunity.

A highly competitive international partnership package will be offered together with the
opportunity to take a pivotal role in the realisation of the firm’s international objectives within
the Single Market. In due course the successful candidate could lead the creation of a multi-
national partnership in Brussels. A route back to the UK would be offered.

For further information in complete confidence, phase contact Gareth Quarry or June MtaaiA on 07 (-405 606 2
(071-228 5345 eveningsAveekends) or write to them at Quarry Dougall Recruitment, 9 Brownhw Street
London WCIV 6JD. Confidential fine 071-8316394. Inithd dboussfon f can be held on a no names bass.

QUARRY DOUGALL

UNITED KINGDOM - HONGKONG • NEW ZEALAND * AUSTRALIA ■ USA

MIDLANDS

NORTH

Applicants should be barristers or solicitors with a minimum of 5 years’ experience gained in a
legal environment within the financial services industry, preferably related to occupational
pension schemes. Experience of managing a busy legal department is essential.

PLANNING

£35,000

An expanding practice with offices in die Midlands and Bristol
areas is keen to recruit an experienced individual of atteast4years
pqe to undertake an established caseload of planning woric linked
to cocwierrial and remdertjfli developments. Excellent prospects
for partnership hi a progressive firm.

ant Marshall - Bhmbtghm Ref:2S140

EMPLOYERS LIABILITY
To £26,000

As part of a well considered and secure expansion, our client, who
has an excellent reputation in this field, requires a solicitor widi 2
-years pqe to undertake a defendant employers liability caseload.
Candidates should have considerable experience and strong
technical ability.

Pod Mulcack- Manchester Rrf:291I2

CRIMINAL LAWYER
c £28,000

An excellent business opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic
criminal lawyer to join a thriving Midlands practice who are
continuing to grow despite the recession.' Hieauocesafal candidate
will be given the opportunity of developing the department and
offered early partnership prospects.
fadu Freeman - Birmingham

COMPANY COMMERCIAL
To £28,000

Our- client is a substantial, fast growing, international practice.
They, act for an impressive number of local and nationally based
listed companies and require further assistants of 0-2 years pqe to
undertake a company/ comxnerriaJ caseload with exposure to
aspects of intellectual property and EC Law.

Paul Midcock - Manchester Ref:28707

INSURANCE LITIGATION
c £40,000

Renowned Birmingham dty practice wishes to recruit a senior

individual capable of taking responsibility for the continued
devdopmentof an established taeuranceUtigation team. A partner
or senior associate at present, the. successful candidate can expect
rapid career progression and excellent financial rewards.

Mark FusscH - Birmingham Ref:29J74

CORPORATE TAX
£Excellent

As one of the longest established provincial practices, this major
firm has a corporate tax practice growing both in size and
reputation. They require a further assistant with not less than 3
years experience of heavyweight corporate tax matters and the
requisite academic and technical ability.

Pool Mulcock -Manchester Ref: 2883*

Reuter Simian Ltd, Recruitment Consultants

Amethyst Hse, Spring Gardens, Manchester M2 1EA Tel: 061-831 7127 Fax: 061-832 9123

85/89 Colmoie Row, Birmingham, B3 2BB Teh 021-200 2660 Fax: 021-236 9351

REUTER
SIM KIN

Reutcr Simon is a orvisitJN ofthe PSD Croup

LEGAL ADVISER (REF LA 2

c{]Dk ~ benefits

The Legal Adviser will report to the Principal Legal Adviser. This role provides an opportunity
to gain exceptional experience in a highly specialised branch of legal work. The main
responsibilities will be to provide legal advice to Noble Lowndes employees on specific client
cases and conduct legal research to ensure that operational activities are kept up-to-date
with legislative changes.

Applicants should be barristers or solicitors with a minimum of 2 years’ experience gained in a
legal environment preferably related to occupational pension schemes. The ability to work
effectively both in their own right and as part of the team is required. Communication skills
are important as the job holder will deal with ail levels of the Company including directors.

A full range of financial sector benefits including a non-contributory pension scheme,
mortgage subsidy, BUPA and profit share are included in the package (subject to service
requirements).

For an application form, please telephone our aniswerphone service on 081-666 8385
quoting your name, address and relevant reference number, or alternatively send
your CV to Lucy D 'Souza, Senior Human Resources Administrator, Noble Lowndes
& Partners Limited, P.O. Box 144, Norfolk House. Wellesley Road, Croydon, CR9 3EB.

Closing dace: 25th September 1992.

LITIGATION MANAGER

Central London

c.£ 40 , 000 Plus Benefits

TWs challenging career opportunity is with a progressive and innovative legal firm.

As part of the firm's determination to respond to its clients dwersifying needs, a "state of die
art” computerised system for both mortgage arrears and rmitipte debt, collection las been
established. To enable the continuing success of this Department and to manage
ever-increasing instructions from an enviable institutional and banking cfent base, a need
has been identified far an experienced professional to assume management responsibility for
the urifs further development

Candidates should be sefrno&vated, ambitious with highly developed leadership qualities
and hare the abftty to communicate effectively at afl levels, it Is important that candidates
are able to demonstrate a successful track record in computerised fitigatkm and systems
management, either in a professional practice or featfhg financial institution.

For further tofoonation, please telephone MICHAEL SILVER, in complete confidence
on (071) 404 4646 or write to him at Daniels Bates Partnership Lid, 17 Red Uon
Square, London WC1R 4QH.

Leeds (0532)461671
Ibnchetter (051) 8327728

Daniels

Dates

Partnership

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Cardiff (0222)225512

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LEGAL APPOINTMENTS

LONDON & NEW YORK

pS^^S^ par ™er

Profitable medit^ sized araraT'L^dwi

c£ 100,000

commejxtal London

pnvacT^ *

-PPoS® ^”^S. 1=

jJJJJOUSEI FINANCE c.£60 D 00 ++

knowledge as head of London

sSMs^fsaf.a^ —

u!E^YMEWT 07-07 000

^nghrrematfonal firm vridffh* S£
^Pj°>rn&rc reputation seeks 1-2 year qualified
»^nt for a mix of contwitteOTa^r^
Optional newly qualifK

^®^ ONS c. £ 4 1,000

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oree years good pensions *
contact and excellent
medium terms prospects.

efcfaeen

High level of

work. Good

EEC/COMPETTnON To £4 1 ,000

High profile broadly based City firm seeks
ambitious lawyer with three years’
EC/competition experience to Join London office.
First race range of competition, merger,
lobbying and general advisory work. Excellent
office environment.

NEW YORK CExpatriate

International City based practice with strong New
York office seeks capital markets lawyer with 2-5

years’ post qualification experience "

package and immediate high level of
and dient contact.

PRIVATE CLIENT

Commercial and weH

practice with strong private dient presence seeks
confident and ambitious solicitor with 2-3 years’
pqe to take on own caseload of predominantly
pre-death work. The firm has a significant number
ofex-Oty lawyers.

INSURANCE LITIGATION To £45,000

Gty firm with unusual but extremely successful
style of practice seeks an indMduafctic
litigation lawyer, ideally 1-3 years qualified . to
handle complex and stimulating insurance
disputes and subrogated actions. Good medium
term prospects.

c. £30,000
-Home Counties

^ Jonathan Brenner are both solicitors with extensive
®xpenencein recruitment consultancy at all levels. To find out more about these
s P ecltl '^anoes or other positions in your own specialisation please contact either

°Z!^IL 0 o 10 <08 1 " 332 0733 evenin 8 s / wee kends) or write to Zarak
Macrae Brenner. Recruitment Consultants. 37 Sun Street, London EC2M 2PY.

Employment Lawyer

Bristol Competitive salary + benefits

Our client is a major, progressive City
law firm offering a broad range of services
to a blue chip client base. It has an
excelled reputation and is at the forefront
of developments in the profession.

The firm now needs an experienced
employment lawyer to join its team in the
growing Bristol office to provide a
comprehensive nationwide service to a
major client and to develop new business.

You will be a high calibre graduate with
two or three years’ post qualification
experience of employment litigation,
preferably in the financial services or
related areas. A self-starter, you will have
the confidence and interpersonal skills to

provide the very best client service and
the commercial flair to spot new business
opportunities. You will also be required to
play a full part in the development of a
young and progressive office.

The attractive salary is supported by a
comprehensive package of benefits.
Including ' relocation expenses as
appropriate.

Please telephone 0272 276617 for
further information or write fn confidence
with full career details to Richard Knowles.
MSL Group Limited, Broad Quay House,
Broad Quay, Bristol, BS2 4DJ quoting job
reference 13266. Initial interviews will be
held in London and BristoL

iL International

Consultants in Search and Selection

BOODLE

HATFIELD

COMMERCIAL LITIGATION

Boodle Hatfield is a long established, forward thinking commercial
practice. Following a recent reorganisation, the firm’s Litigation
Department is expanding.

With a rapidly increasing caseload, the need has been identified for
a senior assistant at the 5-8 year level who will be able to take on a
substantial existing workload which includes insolvency, fraud,
professional indemnity, international and other commercial
disputes and also to supervise more junior assistants.

The successful candidate will, in addition to first class technical
skills, need to display good leadership qualities and a creative
approach to further practice development.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a firm which is poised for
substantial further growth and, to reflect this, the salary package
and partnership prospects will be highly attractive.

ZARAK

Applications from solicitors or barristers with suitable experience
will be welcome.

MACRAE

BRENNER

For further information in complete confidence please contact Stephen Ralph
at Boodle Hatfield on 071-629 741 1 . AltemariveJy contact our Consultant.
Jonathan Brenner, on 071-377 0510 (081-3320733 evenings/weekends) or
write to him at Zarak Macrae Brenner. Recruitment Consultants. 37 Sun
Street. London EC2M 2PY. Confidential Fax 07 1 -247 5 1 74.

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

LAWYER

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BROWN

GOGPER

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COMMERCIAL PARTNER

LITIGATION PARTNER

Brown Cooper’s practice covers a wide range of corporate work
and commercial litigation, particularly for clients in the media,
insurance and energy industries. Much of our work is handled
personally by partners. Clients are often referred by other firms
who respect our professional standards and sensible charging rates.

We control overheads because competitiveness and profitability
are important; but confident and happy relationships with clients
and between partners are, we believe, even mote important

If you share our approach, have a significant following and might
like ro join us, please contact Michael Biown in aria confidence.

BROWN COOPER

7 Southampton Place, London WC1 A 2 DR
Telephone: 071*404 0422

YOUNG

LAWYER

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BEAM*

BEAMA. a Federation of 19 Manufacturers 1
Associations in the electrotechnical industry,
requiresalawyerforits busy Legal Department.

The Department provides an extensive advisory
service to member companies, with particular
emphasis on contractual and product liability
issues; organising legal seminars; publishing
contract conditions and legal guides and
generally representing the interests of the
Federation. We require a recently qualified
lawyerto provide advice over a range of subjects.
Due to the importance of the European dimension
of our work, she/he will be responsible for
consolidating and extending services to member
companies to ensure they are aware of relevant
developments and their implications.

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28 LAW

THE TIMES TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 5 1 992

Court of Appeal

Law Report September 15 1 992 Queen’s Bench Divisional Court

Excluding confessions from jury Statement admitted through fear

Regina v McKenzie
Before Lord Taylor of Gosforth,
lord Chief Justice. Mr Justice
Simon Brown and Mr Justice
Roch

[Judgment July 24J
Cases which depended solely or
mainly on confessions had given
rise to miscarriages of justice and,
therefore, a trial judge in the
interests of justioe was to take the
initiative and withdraw from the
jury a case in which die prosecu-
tion depended wholly on confes-
sions, die defendant suffered from
a significant degree of mental
handicap and the confessions were
unconvincing to the point where
the jury properly directed could not
properly convict on them.

Lord Taylor of Gosforth. Lord
Chief Justice, so stated when
giving a reserved judgment allow-
ing an appeal by David Stuart
McKenzie, aged 38. against
conviction at the Central Criminal
Court (Judge Richardson and a
Jury) of manslaughter on the
ground of diminished respon-
sibility on each of two counts
charging him with murder.

His appeal against conviction on
two counts of arson with intent to
endanger life was dismissed. He
had pleaded guilty to a separate
indictment charging two counts of
unlawful sexual intercourse,
against which he did not appeaL

The sentence on each of the
convictions of manslaughter, ar-
son and unlawful sexual inter-
course was detention in Rampron
Hospital without limit of time
under sections 37 and 41 of the
Menial Health Act 1 983. Thus it
remained in force.

Mr Geoffrey Robertson, QC and
Mr Phillip Waller for the appel-
lant; Mr John Bevan for die
Crown,

THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE,
giving the judgment of the court;
said that the case, which had an
unusual history, raised difficult
problems concerning the appel-
lant’s mental state arid his numer-
ous confessions-

The Crown’s case in respect of
murder in 1984 of a woman aged
76 and in 1985 of a woman aged
86 depended wholly on confes-
sions by the appellant.

He confessed also to 12 other
killings, none of which the Crown
believed he had conunitted-

He was in the border-line sub-
normal range of intelligence and
had been admitted to a hospital as
mentally handicapped when he
was 14 years old.

He was capable of telling a true
story but intended to manipulate
the system, was determined to stay
in Rampton and might say what
would achieve that result.

In [987 3 doctor had considered
the appellant unfit to plead to the
charges of murder, arson and
unlawful sexual intercourse
because he was incapable of
distinguishing between fact and
fantasy-

in 1 990 the doctor's view of the
appellant changed on the narrow
basis that he then knew he had not
committed killings even though he
still feh he did commit them.

The main ground of appeal was
that the jury's verdicts were unsafe
and unsatisfactory having regard
to the unreliability of his confes-

sions and absence of other evi-
dence of guilt.

His Lordship said that (he
question whether the rircum-
stances raised doubts as to the
reliability of any confession was a
question of feet and. normally,
would be for jury decision.

aru* in R v GalbntitiPllwii^l

win 1039). their Lordships
considered that where 0 the

prosecution case, depended wholly
upon confessions, (ii) the defen-
dant suffered from a significant
degree of mental handicap and fui)
the confessions wore unconvincing
to a point where a jury property
directed could not properly convict
upon them, then the judge, assum-
ing that he had not excluded the
confessions earlier, should with-
draw the case from the jury.

The confessions might be un-
convincing, for example, because
they lacked the incriminating de-
tails to be expected of a guilty and
willing confessor, or because they
were inconsistent with other evi-
dence. or because they were other-
wise inherently improbable.

Cases depending solely or
mainly on confessions, like cases
depending upon identification evi-
dence, had given rise to mis-
carriages of justice.

Their Lordships were, therefore,
of the opinion that when the three
conditions above applied at any
stage of the case, the judge should,
in the interests of justice. Cake the
irritative and withdraw the case
from the jury.

The principal issue on the ap-
peal haul been whether the appel-
lant's confessions to foe two
killings did reveal special know-

ledge such as could only have been
known by foe kiDer.

Putting together doubts about
the confesrions, fresh evidence and
flawed passages in the summing
up, their Lordships had no doubt
foat foe jury's verdicts on the
manslaughter counts had to be
regarded as unsafe and

There was no reason to conclude
that foe jury's verdicts on foe arson
counts were unsafe or
unsatisfactory.

In foe result the appeals against

conviction for manslaughter were
allowed, those in relation m arson
were dismissed and. in those
rirannstances. the overall sentence
remained the same.

Solicitors: Bryan & Armstrong,
Mansfield; CPS, Central Courts
Branch.

Regina, v Ashford and
Tentenfen Justices. £x parte
Hikten

Before Lord Justice McGowan and
Mr Justice PoppieweB
[Judgment July 23)

A witness’s statement could be
admitted in evidence in committal
proceedings under section 23 of
the Criminal Justice Aa 1988 on
the ground that she did rot give
evidence through fear, even
though she had already entered
the witness box and had started to
answer questions.

A justice could satisfy herself that
a witness was not giving evidence
through fear by her own observa-
tion of tire witness's demeanour.

It was not necessary for the
justice to have read foe witness's
statement before deciding whether

Benefit powers

Secretary of Slate for Social
Security v Sculfy
Section 93(l)(b) of foe Soda!
Security Act 1 975, read according
to its ordinary and natural mean-
ing. plainly intended to leave it to
the Secretary of State for Social
Security to make all determina-
tions relevant to the contribution
conditions as set out in Part 1 of
paragraph 1 of Sdiedule 3 to foe
1975 Act and so deprived the
social security commisioner of
jurisdiction to decide an issue
which related to the claimant's
entitlement or otherwise to sick-
ness benefit.

The Court of Appeal (Lord

Justice Purthas. Lord Justice
Stocker and Sir Christopher Slade)
so held on June 12 in a reserved
judgment when allowing the ap-
peal by the secretary of state
against a decision of Mr Commis-
aoner Goodman on April 25.
1991 that foe daimam. Mis Nora
Scully, was not entitled to sickness
benefit

SIR CHRISTOPHER SLADE
said that it had been agreed
between the parties that the issue of
jurisdiction was to be determined
upon the appeal before The daim-
am determined whether or not to
appeal against foe substantive
decision of foe commissioner
which had gone against her.

it should be admitted, it was
sufficient for her to be aware of its
contents.

The Queen's Bench Divisional
Court so held, dismissing Kerin
John Hflden’s application for an
order of certiomri to quash foe
decision of an Ashford and
Texuerden justice, sitting as an
examining magistrate, on July 3,
1992 to commit him for trial on

charges of causing grievous bodily

harm with intent and false
imprisonment.

Mr Louis French for the ap-
plicant; Mr Geoffrey Cox for foe
justice; Mr John Hilfen for foe
prosecution.

LORD JUSTICE McCOWaN
said that at foe committal proceed-
ings foe witness, who was foe
appficanfs girlfriend, had gone
into the witness box and taken foe
oath. In answer to questions she
had said that she could not
remember what had happened or
that she had no comment

The justice had formed the firm
impression that she was affected by
fear and tfiar that explained her
refusal to answer questions.

The prosecution had made an
application under section 23|3Kb)
of foe Criminal Justice Act 1988
for her statement to be admitted on
foe ground that she was not giving
oral evidence through fear. Tbe
witness had not herself said that
she was in fear.

The justice had decided that in
foe interests of justice the statement
should' be Emitted The justice
was not shown foe statement
during her deliberations.

The applicant submitted that for
section 23 to bite, foe court had to
have before it a witness who did

not utferasmgfewonl of evidence.
He argued that foe section was
aimed at these who would not
came into court at aff. Once a
witness came into court and took
foe oath, anything that was said
the reafter amounted to oral
evidence. ■

The question was whether foe
witness had given oral evidence.
HiS Lordship could not accept foe
submission that a witness must
literally u>ter not one word, must
stand there completely mute, in
order for section 23 make effect.

rn his Lordship’s judgment foe
provision meant that a witness
must' not have given evidence of
significant relevance to foe case.

The witness had dearty given no
evidence of significant relevance to
foe case. In no real sense did the
evidence she had put before foe

court go in any way to deciding the
issues in die case.

The applicant further argued
that either foe witness had to say
that she was nor giving evidence
through fear or there had to be
evidence from another witness,
usually a police officer, that he had
seen foe witness and concluded
that she was in fear.

. His Lordship could not under-
stand why that would be better
evidence than foe justice seeing foe
witness and forming her awn view
that the witness was in fear.

The applicant further argued
that foe justice bad not had regard
to foe contents of foe statement
before making her decision, as was
required by section 26 of foe Ad.

That argument was only coned
if the words "have regard to"
meant that the justioe had to see
and read foe statement. In his

Lordship's judgment they did not
mean that. They meant that she
had to be appraised of the contents
of the statement. It was dear that
foe justice had been told by the
prosecution what foe contents of
the statement were.

MR JUSTICE POPPLE WELL
said that he agreed but that he had
reached foe same conclusion by a

different route.

In his Lordship's judgment,
section. 23 was capable of two
interpretations. The first was foe
applicant's interpretation that sec-
tion 23 applied where a witness
gave no oral evidence.

His Lordship did not accede to
foe submission that “oral evi-
dence” in section 2 3 (31(b) meant
material oral evidence. It seemed
to his Lordship (hat arty oral
evidence constituted such “oral

evidence".

The second interpretation re-
quired the insertion of the word
“some”.

if a witness started giving some
oral evidence without fear but was
prevented from giving further
evidence through fear that was a
person who "does not give oral
evidence through fear.

There being an ambiguity in the
section the question then arose as
to which interpretation was to be
preferred- It seemed to his Lord-
ship that there was no logic in foe
applicant's contention as it would
make total nonsense of a provision
aimed at preventing a witness's
evidence not getting to court
through fear.

Solicitors: Bradleys. Ashford;
Kingston! Flower & Pain. Ashford;
CPS. West Kent

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A commercial litigator catac to
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THE TIMES TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1992

RACING 29

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Geisway’s experience should
stand him in good stead

THE knowledge that San-
down's 'Blue Riband Futurity*
Stak e s, albeit in two other
guises, has been won by horses
of the calibre of Generous and
Reference Point both Derby
winners, in recent years
should help to provoke interest
in the most valuable race at the
Esher track today.

In their attempt to win h
again, the Generous team of
Paul Cole and Fahd Salman
are .represented this time by
Frescade.

This big strapping son of
Great Dancer caught the eye
on his debut at Newbury last
month when he finished third
in the race won by Eurolink
Thunder.

Michael Phillips

The winner has since gone
olve

on to collect again at Wolver-
hampton.

While conceding that
Frescade certainly looks die
type who wfll have improved
considerably as a result of his
first run, I feel that the more
experienced and mature
Geisway is the one to be on.
and be is my nap.

After Geisway had finished
second to White Crown in the

Donnington Castle Stakes at
Newbury midway through
July, his jockey Pat Eddery
advised his trainer Richard
Hannon that he would benefit
from a rest because he fdt that
he had outgrown his st r engt h -

Geisway had already taken
in good races at York, Doncas-
ter. Rpyal Ascot, Newmarket
and Newbury, ail within the
space of nine weeks, and had
acquitted himself weH No
wonder a test was due.

What must have encour-
aged his connections in hind-
sight is the fact that White
Crown, Geisway’s conqueror
at Newbury, has gone on to
win the group three Solano
Stakes at Sandown since there

It is my contention that
Gdsway’s form has a ring of
reliability which none of his
rivals can match.

Declassified certainly did
not have to be a woridheater
to win at Brighton last time.

while Rapid Success was a flop
at Salisbuiylast time when be
finished a remote last of three
after winning the Granville
Stakes at Ascot first time out
Even Shebl’s good third in
the Lanson Champagne
Stakes at Goodwood, a repeti-
tion of which would certainly
put him in with a chance of
winning here, was followed fay
a bad run in the Solano Stakes
where he finished last

Ericolin. the only other run-
ner, finished six lengths be-
hind Geisway at Newbury.
While that race should have
brought him ore he still has
only an additional 21 b allow-
ance with which to narrow the
gap.

Aremef. from Julie Cecil's
Newmarket stable, is my
choice for the Woodchester
LMS Handicap.

After finishing a creditable
fourth over a ■ rmle-and-a-half
at Ungfidd last time this
front-running son of Northern
Baby, who was successful over
today’s trip earlier in the year,
should appreciate the return to
ten fariongs on a course which
has shown over the years that
it brings out the best in front-
runners.

Finally, Twilight Secret,

who saw no daylight at all
■ ■ ■ ■ -■

when finishing relatively dose
up in eighth place;

Hannon: his Geisway
has reliable form

jatKempton

ast time out, is taken to win
he Westminster-Motor Taxi
iisurance Fillies’ Handicap,
vhile the Wey Stakes can go to
final Frontier, who was a
food second to Fairy Story at
lingfidd.

Cochrane
misses out
on Selkirk

RAY Cochrane will miss the
ride on Selkirk at Ascot on
Saturday week after receiving
a four-day whip suspension at
Bath yesterday.

Ian Balding will have to
find a replacement jockey for
last season’s European cham-
pion miler. who wfll be at-
tempting a second successive
victoiy in tbe Queen Elizabeth
II Stakes.

Cochrane's ban starts on
September 23, and he will
-miss the entire three-day As-
cot meeting which ends with
the Festival of British Racing

fixture.

His penalty for whip mis-
use followed the Bathfbrd
Nursery where his mount.
Fmavore finished a short-
bead runner-up to tbe 2-1
favourite. Editing.

The stewards ruled
Cochrane hit the horse with
unreasonable frequency.

□ Lester Piggott finished sec-
ond on Lech, trained by his
wife. Susan, in the Prix. du
Point du Jour at Evty yester-
day. He was beaten a short
neck by The Tender Track in
the mile event

French fillies in demand
for Longchamp feature

WHILE Dr Devioufs hard-

fought defeat of St

By Dick Hinder

fonte at

Leopardstown was the most
thrilling weeke

mg weekend trial for the
Ciga Prix de PArc de
Triomphe. it was thel French
fillies who commanded sup-
port yesterday for the
Longchamp showpiece on Oc-
tober 4. |

Largely ignoring tfie out-
come of the Irish Champion
Stakes, backers focussed on
-the Prix Vermdlle iinner,
Jdypha, and Magic Night,
who captured the Prix Fey.

Ladbrokes were forced to cut
Jolypha’s odds from 10-1 to
7-1 and shortened Magic
Night, second in the big race
lastyear. to 8-1 from 9-1.

St Jovite was eased to 2-1
favourite (from 7-4) arid Dr
Devious to 4-1 (from 3-1), the
same as the St Leger winner.
User Friendly. However. Cor-
als reported interest for St
Jovite at 11-4. but did not
reduce his price.

Dr Devious’s nainer. Peter
Chapple-Hyam. is delighted
that the Derby winner is. back
to his best

He said yesterday: “His
Derby win had been written
off in some quarters as a sub-
standard performance so the
Irish victor}’ gave me particu-
lar pleasure. He is back on top
again.

“He has come back from the
race with no problems and it is
now on to the Arc. I know he
had a hard race but none of
them has been easy and he
seems to thrive on it"

Chapple-Hyam was always
confident he would win
Leopardstown ‘s group one
event, bur a week ago he was
planning to do it with another
horse. Rodrigo De Triano.

But doubts about the
ground and the lr£l 8.500
supplemental}' entry fee put
connections off.

The M anion trainer report-
ed: "Rodrigo will now go for
the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes
at Ascot, though I wouldn't
advise anyone backing him
until they know the ground is
good or faster. He wfll not run
if it's soft."

Jim Bolger reported that St
Jovite had come out the

Leopardstown race unscathed,
adding: “My mind is now-
focussed on the Arc.”

A pulled shoulder musde
was blamed for Kopynnga’s
disappointing showing in the
Irish Champion Stakes.

Her trainer, Michael
Kauntze. revealed yesterday
that the four-year-old filly, who
trailed in over 15 lengths
fourth, finished the race lame.

Kooyonga. winner of two
group one races including the
Eclipse Slakes, also foiled to
fire in the Juddmonre Interna-
tional Stakes at York. She
finished last and was later
found to be in season.

“I am fed up with making
excuses.” Kauntze conceded
"But she took a couple of lame
steps up the straight and the
racecourse vet said she had
pulled a small musde in her
shoulder."

The injury will nm affeci
Kooyonga’s preparation for
her final race, the Japan Cup.
She will now have a break
before she returns for a warm-
up race, sponsored by her
owner, on October 24.

3.55 WU10W CLAtlffllB STAKES

(3-Y-O: £2,862: 5f 6yd) (8 runners}

GUIDE TO OUR RACECARD

MANDARIN
2.20 AvriJ EtoBa.

2-50 Twftjglrt Secret.
3.25 Azemef.

3.55 Branston Abby.
4.30 GEISWAY (nap).
5.00 Top Table.

5£0 Feral Frontier.

THUNDERER

2£0Bajka.

2.50 JDAAYEL (nap).
3.25 Almufrtarama.
3.55 Branston Abby.
430 Frescade.

5.00 Quadrirsme.
530 Marks.

RICHARD EVANS: 230 Agnes Ramming. 5.00 Miss Pin Up.
530 FINAL FRONTIER (nap).

GOING: GOOD (BACK STRAIGHT GOOD TO FIRM)
DRAW: 5F 6YD, HIGH NUMBERS BEST

SIS

2.20 OF HEATHER MAIDEN STAKES

(2-Y-O: £2,862: 5f 6yd) (9 runners)

101

102

103

104

105
IDS
1D7

106
109

0 JOBE 17 (J Redmond) W Haoca, 60.

0 KELLY MAC IB (W ItocDaBkl) N Catagten M_

MMs 94

MUSTAKB4 (HnateiAJ Mrifajm) R Anntfmq) 9-0-
04000 SEA BARON 7 (Sew Sras Mg) U 8 to

030 AVIRL ETfflLE 29 (D Skostet] L Hal 64 .
5 8AJXA15 (J Bay) Wtorts 8 -fl_

00 BAUH 32 (Urt Caraawn) lad Urtkedoo 8-9.

65560 PERFECT PASSXHi 46 [N Bfyce-SnOO J Bridgsr 8-9.
450 SARASWAT1 29 (A HaUngmb) P lltti 8-8

. PteEdday -
_ W Canon -
R Codon 94

JRrtd 98

. SCaofea 78
. U totals 88
_ LMBI 91
_ ratal ffi

BETTMEl 163 BdeL 4-1 Jgbta, 5-1 MsHdro. Bafa, 13-2 Art Stto, 8-1 So tan. 12-1 Sana! 16-1
Period ftetan. 25-1 IHy Uac.

1991: HAW 9-0 R Mi (5-1) H Ttanm Joan 1 1 m

FORM FOCUS

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good) NUn SEA BARON 91*1 TUI of 13 b
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o) 10 la ttamab b Saftshtn J5L, good to ton)
maiden on pamUnab Mart. BAJKA fir 5Di to kn

UnfaajiiEpHn(Glj
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will PERfECT

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BoU tt im taw Majestic SonL
Statac AVWL ETOLE

2.50 WESTMIHSTFR-MOTOR (TAXI) INSURANCE FADES HANDICAP

(3-Y-O: £3,783: 1m 14yd) (14 runners)

201 (14 1020-00 SYLVAN IB (t4ra R Heart) c wa 9-7

202 (11) 1 JJAAYai5(S)(Henta»AHIbtan)Aae«BrtB-8_

203 (10) 1J0 SFCSPl£ASaW(B(RDucli0BS0«LCiii«ilM,

(6) 031401 ROCAUtY 15 (D.FAS) (B MaeQ R H«ion9-5-

J Mbits 91
U Rotate 91
L Dettori 03

(7) 12-3040 C0N6RESS 38 (V JXfl (Saftfc WawnaO) U Skita 9-3 .
206 (IS 241525 «J6G*B 10 OXG) (BNorih) M UeComtaM.

207

208
208
210
211
212

(5) 006130 ASWSRBataS 38 P.S)(MaPHwte)P tarts 92-

RCocbm 90
- Sddtai 94
4 Reid 96

120322 RAEAH 15 (03 (H Sriem) B Katay 9-2 n _ . ~

021083 GLARE KEWY LABS 15 (BFJ,aS) (Mtand 5MQ J FktriM 9-1. Alton) 91

(41 000003 SWAU0WCIWE 10 /V.G) KeasnO P Wta)*i W TQ*n 97

10 SWET JAffA 17 (BFjB) [¥« C V*4ea) W Hem 8-13 WCaaon 87

PodEddenr 97
BRaynond 90

... ... 141106 WASELA 18 (DJ.GKSWiii Ataed Al IttBOlO A SoB 6-12— F Norton (3) «

213 (121 »W 10 SO SMUG 10 (Vfl,S) Ota E (Ann) 4 (bHkS 8-10 PllEfltay 9B

214 M 66230 TVflUGHT SECRET 10 (M ftootas) 4 HBb 66 .

eenwe r -2 am 5-1 art PtaBta-n taow seoa. 9-1 toner. 12 ‘

1 Ftat, Cov* 3 - 14-1 SatarfOe. CSara Kerry lass, 16-1 Smd So stub. 33-1 Sytm.
1901: CAROSaiA 7-10 4 Ota) (25-1) C ftbrin 10 ran

FORM FOCUS

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good » wfl) ftanakap ^fr CL4RE XERHV LASS
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3.25 WQ0DCHESTBI LMS HANDICAP

(3-Y-0: £3,829: 1m 2f 7yd) (14 nirmers)

- 3311 AV1CE CARO 40 (Dfl (9oMi Moriaraned) J 8«den 9-7

cunuia rb m AMmvd SMn 4 faoshaM 9-6

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mi m DTUl a FTF PATH 14 OLfiFn (JaiUUUl ftst

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304

305

306

307
306
309

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112)

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211042 BUDE PATH 14 (&BF.F) (Janpot Mnerstep) 4 Ms 9-4.
4210 THAMBTAR 101 (F) U Narti) J tariep 9-2

— .. nu.... -M A llhH Ikdil SI

SCtaen 90
Pa Ettay S3
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LOeODri 91

4210 TOAMESTAR 101 U wat) J OM* « — rr TT

( 4 ) 01-03 ALIEOMS 32 ft (Sa tBAtaeri AlWbD^lQrta W w

81 245204 WH*F19(M)(UrfWBn^ WsJCac8 90 — J WHdJ 84

52 IS Al MMIMAMA 12 (DJ) (StaMt Atewad Al tabtfri) A Sbwl 613_ M RoBtete 88

514200 S0VERB6N PAGE 18 ft PAs 4 ft«M B «ta»y 8-12 B .^™ nd ®

12356 AARAM0JA 18 (S) (P JKOta) N atan 69 s WGsreon 83

5- a |

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312 . .

313 (6)

314 04)

- RCodnoa 93

K em^eorai5 7 (8? — Tl KaS -

SNAPPYS BCV 40SH 57 (R P Fffctai 7-7 NAtate

Caro. 92 A*naas. 13-2 88* Pta «l’M 14-> »**
Aronel. Itanta. 16-1 CHATHAM BLAND 76 8 Oofte (61) C BrOah B on

AVKE CABO Bert Ne ptune 1 !

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COURSE SPECIALISTS

TRAINERS

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300

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205

200

180

118

S Cretan
R Cochrane
Ps Eddery
T Qtai
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w Cssoo

229

157

272

136

227

253

118

115

114

14.7

14.5

13.4

401

402

403

404
4»

406

407

408

(2) 140600 ST0RU ftCUHTY 15 (Oft (J Staff A Sod B-9..
(1) 1-400 B0HNlDBE7(DJ)g-Reatao4SlM68.

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331400 M6H PRMOPUS IS (DJ) Oteataa Sabtes Lid) J Bany 67

155653 UFETNE FME 47 (F) IE Lasft J FtaB-6 R Cocteuo 83

600 HAZYatfDBr6(WWDod)JBrta»62 : SWtaorte -

(4) 06-1060 BRANS70N ABBY 6 (Dft P DMd AM) U JUnton 8-1 - M Rotate £

(7) 350204 LOOSE THIS 25 (A WatHWI) C M61 TMn|7) 84

(5) 412140 OUR RITA 25 (F^) (J Body) PJMeny BO Alton 87

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SETTING: 5-2 Skua UebDy. 3-1 total Abby. 60 Ufetaetem. S-i Hgti Pitedote s . 8-1 Ora RHa. 161 Boro
To Be, 161 loose Zeus, 561 toy State

1901: D0LBL0VA 86 J Qnofl (1)11 ter) J Beny 8 ran

FORM F0CJS

STORM leXBY OKI 71b id 13 ta Western Ap-
prcach ta Yak a, oood to ten) hanftap on
i ap pe ara nce: WtaoTHl 5* c4 6 to Anotta
Enisoda ta Sated race orar he saw come and
distance (oood) on fear tat Iasi war-
HfiH PfWOTLES 5X1 4b d 6 to iSSda Pltaoa
ta Ayr [9, good) bandicap In July. LKTtUE FAME
55uad dTl b Vtetoa CteCrfa ta Sristay (H.

fnnetanr. BRANSTON A88Y3KJ Ob N 14 b
KkW Lbofc ta Nbrnadat (SLaud) bnficap
oo pnotraate start «M BORN TO BE (i3tt) me
o6)'l 12b. LOOS ZEUS 71 4tb ol 9 ta Writ b

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|H®ih

b aft , O tB RfTA 3MI 4b of 5 b Sprinp

Yrarserii
States

(& hgto ^on praiiattae start.

4.30 BLUE RIBAND FUTURITY STAKES

(2-Y-O: £4^50: Im 14yd) (6 runnere)

501 (4)

502 (6)

503 (5)

504 (3)

505 (1)

506 ft

521 DECLASSffPED 20 ft (E Evans) L Cured 9-4.

L Dated 01

21542 GBSWAY 50 ft (4 Batga (Eouioe) LaJll ton 9-4.

13 RAPS SUCCSS 33 (BFft (Y MazM)) Ebteb 9-4.

20130 StBL 25(0} SaMitanidAI MttnlM Skta 64-
5 BS0UN 59 (Salt Moot M Itabeai C Mata 612.
3 FRESCADE 31 f Satan) pca« 612-

. PriEdrtay 98
RDocbani 91
. SCstan 0)
. MRobem 84
_ Alton 96

BEnflS: 15-6 Frescade, 52 Gam. 11-4 l*tt Succass. 7-ltata. 161 DtaassHed, 161 Ericote.
1991: KWSS LOW 8-4 W Ryan (4-Sn) H Ck 9 5 ran

FORM FOCU;

OECLASSffH) BebSatetanfae «H ta i6nmer
b tei^nafeta BBSWAY 41

BrWta (71 pood

2 bTo( 6 0 Wto&wn ta Nateuy (7L good b
sod)- states ace ate ERKXXH (2fc battar oB)
6W 5Bt aralter 31 5b (412 to fttarib ta groep ■
Cnerby Staes a Ascot (61 good to flan) raOi

SHEBL (sans terms) 12b.

RAPD UCCOS beta Abate ok ta 6nns Ascot
(R goeta bm) ntedsa. sra. 2)41 MM 10 to

UsmcJj gmop ■

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FRSCA0E It 3rd M 16 ta

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nakten.

5.00 TAXMEWS HANDICAP

(£3,783: Im 61) (15 turners)

(1) 413SS6- JHBA 222J fCDfASl (lady Hades) Lapyhrtes 7-lM.
10 WSH S1M*> 10 R (P ffOorwS) J Pa

601 na ortfls/o caucok 24 (gs p bby) i tiw

802 "

803 (10)

604 (13)

605 (11)

606 (9)

W7_ (4)

608 (5)

SOS

L Deoil -

042015 OJADRiaC17(BF.G)(R>ttngiMb)Wto346.
351400 MAMtAJAN 17 (F.&9 (Iks F tons) C Basra) 69-5 .

J VNfers
SCteD

. W Carson
TOten

115104 HSSPWUP11 p3J=^HEfltan*i)Pra«iefl5611-
0666 MDtAN D6QSM 18 (V Italya) J Dratep 59.

97

BMgmond 83
J HSU 92

60631 GREEK CtWE 10 (F) (Lad Wetetwi) Loal HStagdoO 3-8 13 .

ft 644044 7RaMNUWCS?39ft(4fiaten0JSBglM-13

(IS) 22-0424 COKSTRUCnvST 15 |)Me Ud) 6 HBb 3-612

ft 241502 BOLD RS0LUT1DN 32 (IS) (R tita) C CWB4-8-9

ft 024S30 TOP TABLE 32 (VJF) (tort ItefcSx*) b S10W3-B-9-

ft 250804 SRWESBB8KPnY24 (W) (AHstatasi) AWC40-7.

640240 BJJSHBrii BBiE 21 ft (S Don) P Ode 6# .

(14) 362420 LUKS AKURA 41 (Vfl (Ute !«1 Co (UQ Lid) Uotator 4-60.

— Alton 91
RCodnoe 91
,-paEddray 92
. M totals 91
PtoEddray 90
_.N Adaa 93
_ CFtokr 98

UBterift 93

BET7M6: 62 Mbs Pin Up. 61 Mai Detetan. Gre* QAne. 61 Udrirsme, 7-1 Bold RnoMbw 61
Uditan 161 ContuaMst iM Top Table.

1991: BALASAM 5-60 D Hstond (*-i) M pt 17 an -

FORM FOCUS

JMBA 541 3rd flf 14 b S» Pfcgra ro Ksronion (im
H. mod) tovfcte cn pmutonta dan Iasi yes.
KSHSTAMP (ml tof& Jack SKI h 6nHflf
TrannBti ( 1 m 3 iDIjrt. good b sofl) imldm on

(BIADF6RB4E SMI 5th ol 17 to Green Lam ta
Wnteor (im 31 135yd. good) taxfcap, rate
IUHRAJAN (1» «m 06) 11*1 7Bt pta“ to
beat MrtA II in 1 1-rueier Mtrten (Im 4T.j
handicap. MBS PM UP Ml 4bof 12 to

Blue m Kanpn (Im
cmcbta' "

Bd

■an ww «■ — •• 1 2 -nm ei ThifiA

(Im 41, mod) firm) ctekner. CONSTRLttTMST
41 4b 0(7 to tea Solo to Chepstow (im 21. sot)

Bandap. BOO RSaUTDN 3HI 2nd Ol 9 to

Preataj endo fic tekrt (im 41. good) htotap.

GROVE srafftY mil 4» oMDto Mr“-

knage b htofeo over cnia and dtoance

to afl Mb flLJCON aied o* 10th.

QUDRRB4E

5.30 WEY NURSBTY HANDICAP

(2-Y-O: £3.670: tm If) (12 runners)

1342 AUERNET PRMCE 25 ft (F Satan) P Cta 67

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4

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5

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06001 VW^DEJtPRESS 13 (Vi)(WorW Egress UrtadB IlfcteH-. JVtaraw 96

004 C0PP0TTH.17(LSiBcd)C3rta*61S

005 OOITT FORGET UARC 25 (N Heroert B Hamen 84.

6010 MARUS21 (BFft (Mrs L Stotai) B Hits 67.

M Roberts 91
AMcOone 91
PstErttry 90

005 C 6 SHAIEnAN 15 (Cbofs ttertbraon Ud) M Caro 8-5 90

43202 FWAL FRONTBt 19 (A Spascei) R AWlist 63 Ftottcft »

556 NU SHAN 2S (V) (tote) Mnhantad) M Steett 62 WCmwi S

000 MLL500VMBOY50(MrsSUaM)SDOn7-7.

000 AROSANT RXX 15 (T Mtoy-telW D Vflaan 7-7 —

4004 5HVN0N 14 (M Bmtang) U Tranpttis 7-7

000 MBS RB80NS 69 (Mo C Gtegnenl) Pta Mttaft 7-'^

A Garth (7) -

MHranphrksft
DINrWft

Long hataap: SbinoD 7-4, Mbs Rboora 7-0.

BETTBtt 61 Como Tri. 9-2 Abemey Prro. 61 final Frortier, 7-1 Wodrdprem- 9-1 Marine Dem tags
ItoB. IM Hi Share

1991: S1PLY GEflRS 9-3 Pal Eddray (61) R Be 11 ran

FORM FOCUS

ALDERNEY PRMCE nk 2nd ol 16 tojonmelB Bn
'im. good to stft. WORUi EXPREfflberilltad
Tlta Otepram (im. sofl) natal Mb C D

COPPOTTH.

Goodwedf7t,
GET MARE 31

a lb Beta cfl) B 5ft.

M 4th ol 11 b WootenWmn ki

. to ««) maMen. DONT F(K*
oMO B Aiasy ta Ctetar ft.

to ten) item UARWS BMCotete

JtattlbUOTto^ftlOOyd.^

lo soft auefion mwi on pcmuxiM SHifWL

jjrasswfiws

aandoita ta good b sotg mbdea
Sdecfcir

Blinkered first tine

SANDOWN PARK: 2.50 Congre$s, So Smug. 5.0CTop Tabte. 5.30 Nu
Shan. YARMOUTH: 2.40 Blue Trumpet, Leg»idary tero. Mr Nevermna,
Jade Runner. 3.10 Sasparella. 4.40 Magniflcem.

Bath

&**■#** .^, d0 (W

Lrasan. 100-30 tjv). n«noncl HO-

Tene UpWtlO- 1 UuS^Bansjapto. Ttea-

E13*> CSF 525802 2-S

DP E26D CSF- i3» __ __
3.00 (tin 31 U-WgSSd
bhw (M (Sfr. 4. Ft*

116 1)- 3. Success 9-2

Oiswr ( 1 C- 1 V £5.00:

tov 20 Wi Cl* « CPEdaW.

Eire. £331.

CSF C78 45 Tne*r £638^ woians.
330 iSI 16iyf) ’ 3-

IM); 2. BarWY joeort l7-1)
OT>csta|ii>;»l ^^lrTSe:
ran. til. ud w OF: e3<xid.

£1.80. £l-B°- T c2 ES: c ?ar7T
CSF. EG0 l 14 Tncao! ^ ^

* DO (im 31 ^SSSS^Pt 1 ^
EaUray, gn nd. 1l6
3 l* AH MrttfrW 19 “^2 BO. DP:

MS TMP

3760 CSF C.07S

SSi'rttteSftBfi
lSSS(IM)

Tote^EIlT^ iaeo; ci.00.E2.7tX _

^tXSiSSnst

np pmwt id afl bate, deduct tO pinpow id.

iflonm 5yd) 1. BMifl (M Robots. 2-1

tsv: ».'V jjjj

ec p<1tedi0fl(8-1) is ran. Sh fid. alod

£200; El 3a C2^0.
CSF: £18^7. Tricast

EB&33-

iScernef.io.ei.iae2.io. dr ctA
CSF: £2.64.

Racapot E1D920.

Leicester

2.10 pi Bed) 1. Trua Ken (S Cradhon 35
ta'afl ooar Tta Odra PO-I): 1
CtMtimy^ PH (10-1). Ilian. Mr. 1)tL J

g^SlTok ei-3o: ei.ia £2.40, clbo.
DF: £450. CSF: £7£&

2-40 nm 1( 21M) 1. TnJephus (E
jBiHn MJ: a Aacwn L«to (20-1). 2
Laugtton Law (20-1). Oestofl Quest 4 lav,
israr 21. llH 0 McAMi. Tote E&Oh
C24a £060. f&BOl DF: £8950. CSF:
G93.35. Bougrt h OSODvs

3.10 (5721 Byd) l,YogteOrMkia(SWi
7-2 Mi 2, rndur Express (14-ij; a
Riijy Fkng (IM); 4. Bamswri Bate
20 ran. NR: Lira Bid. Stack Bty. Me,

Wood,

D Owpmen. Ttenf' &TO; 8 |l5a

£150, £2.60. DF: £6860. CSF: £5419.
Tiicast £52758.

3.40 (Im Byrt) 1 , Wtoatowt Creak (M Hits,
11-4); a Ftamno Arrow (136). 1 Km
Suspect (11-8 tad. 5 ran. Itol. i2L S
wSgT T«n: £4.fe £2 OR £1.10 OF'
SaOI CSF: £7.43.

4.10 (ImS 183ydM, fflBFBJRPdca, 61);
1 KasM a&Ai p-ZVShw Somiaa
ia8 fav 12 ran. NR: Nan The Tentte- z,
3JH. J PWrca Tefe EB.70; £150, £2.10,
£1.60. DF: £4820. CSF: £5650

4.40 is 2i Byte l. SlteiD (S Cauthen, 136
tow); 2 , Sbtelwood Sm (62); a No
ffi-i), 14 ran. TA My Bonus. 2t, Ml. R
WHams. Tote: £2.70: £15a £260. £2.5 0
OF. £1550 CSF- £11.02 Tricast £4121
Ptecapot EBa50.

Plumpton

Going; good to Atm

250 (an It hdaLi. Towny Boy (U ach-
ates, 7-2 Cm): 2. Straw Bade (4-1). 3.
Msrvunsn Soy (MJ. I3ran Hd. «f(. Ate 1.

Clay Tots: £440. £2.4a £150. £1 60. DF:
£1760 ' -

CSF- £18 72 TricaS: £5657

£60 (3m It 1 10ya Oi) 1 , MngBstaer Bay (A

4-5 MZ Oaba Pmco ©^3,

D61).i ran. 1!W. ia . . ..
Tore: £1 2D: *22 DF: £1 JED. Pigeon Istend
is-aratored lo roe and was deemed nrt
D haw taken par flJa 4 nppMs to all bets,
decua 25p in pend

350 pm II hdh 1. Natal Btchanga (J
Osdome, 112):» AJdre Jane W-fl; i
Tares Scrarrtde (3-1) Copy Lano '13-8 tar.
13 ran. a i*. J-as. Tta. £5.10: 020,
£2.00. EIB-IOl a £950. CSF: £2950.
350 ( 2 m « hefla) ,TM E Ition p Laatw. 9-
2), a Forest Ftara (9^; 3. Patiote (106

. Old (106
30). f^oco KnoM tow. 6 ren. 41 44L P
- - -r MK £1-30- £150. DP

Jones. Tgto: —
£15 3a CSF: £236.

45fl(2m5lch] If
4-1). 2. M '

, ...-.KjBuKaaMfawjiatiofteCNmos
(7-2). 6 ran. 19. a A Moore. Tote. £550;
£3.30. £150 DFESSaCSF: £1256.

450 (2m 41 hteel . Chero Motel (A Mag-
11-4 ji-tow).; Lfldjr Btrfng (it-SJ; 3.

ute.

;;Lfldya —

Across 7ha Cart7-l). Rw Crates IM#

tow. 6 ran. 41. eh 1 ^ togian. Tote' E3.70:
£150. £1 50. DFtiam CSF: £1111
PtocapotEfflS

□ The first flty. a daughter of
Sadler's Wlls, has been en-
tered for ie 1994 Derby
under the rw presales year-
ling entry sprtem.

MANDARIN

2.10 Nemfa-.

2.40 Don’t Be Said.

3.10 King’s Signet.

3.40 Racing Telegraph.

4.10 Awestruck.

4.40 Roca Murada.

THUNDERER

2.10 Rosina Mae.

2.40 Legendary Hero.

3.10 First Gold.

3.40 Splash Of Salt

4.10 Satin Dancer.

4.40 Roca Murada.

Our Newmarket Correspondent 2.10 Nsmir 4.10 AWESTRUCK (nap).
4.40 Shining Jewel.

Private Hancficappefs top rating: 3.40 RACING TELEGRAPH.

GOING: GOOD

DRAW: 6F-1M, HIGH NUMBBS BEST

■ SIS

2.10 RQiENT MAIDEN STAKES

(3-Y-O: £2,385: Im & 17yd) (11 runners)

OB BAVIN 17 (H II Itotonp RtaffinM.

ft 06B-32S FRS TRANSRR 68 (R Wan) P Tirit 9-0.

6 Htad

4 waBMI (ShaWi tonid *1 IbiUin) J EotdenS-O

(1) 204300 SAff Al AD6.8 (E Hriawy) K (wry 60

(1ft 4-44 FIAMM60 ROSE 28 (BF)(S Ntarebod H Cflcl 84 WRym

ft 50 WHAM) FANTASY 29 (BF) (A Write) BHtsft-9 DHoknd

SOM (7)

(7) 600350 PROCESS EWA 32 (S toy) 8 Gate 8-9

(4) 6022 ROSS1A MAE 39 {Srwttnl Part. Ltd) Lon) 0 Hortswi (3)

ft SEA PET (Ito B SMborough) G Kiteny 69 GayKtaway -

ID (11) 04222 SWSADBJGRr 15 (B5F) (Hesmoreb SUD J Doriop 69 Q Duflkta 94

11 (2) 00-030 HHKICOMESMA1URALLY 17J (T Thorp) M Ctopnan 69 R Price (5), 62

8ETTKG: 11-4 fbsta Um, 61 Firtasy. 61 Ftammgo tat 61 ShesarMglt 61 Her*. 12-1 Pee
TraOer. 161 often. ’,

1991: MOUXTAN E050U 69 L Detai (7-4 taw) L Curani 6 an i

2.40 BROOKE SELLING STAKES (2-Y-O: £2,973: 6f 3yd) (20 runners)

cm

HQ

10

cn

(9)

PD)

02 )

D BAOC5TABB8M4 (US! A Moody) J Saga 611.
BUS TRUMPET (B) (A Hkte) A Hkle 61 1 .

0620 CHARLES REWARD 10 (late (Lean) UflTFabirt 611.

0 DUKE OF BUDWQRTH 18 (J Good) M Tcretoa 61 1

35230 G000BMBElS(ltoAJmsiAJBl«611.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10 (1) 001200 RHIBALLfT 11 (B,C5)(D Cocoa) 1*5 N

11 (14) 38300 5E06TTTUIE B0Y27 (Burton) Theremttnd) K Buie 611

JOutan

(10

6340 LK8DARY HBtO 24 (V) (P SawMQ T Banjo 611 —
55104 MSS FAYRUZ 38 (C.6) (K PtaDpp) Mr* L FtggaN 611 -
0240® Iffi NEVHMND IS (B) (K Hgsnn) E L»* 8-11 .

DteGbsan -

_ JFsatag 53

PRtetaon -
WRym 93
_ K Darby 85
„ LPiggM 91
B Rouse 38

0 PAIACEGATE TOUCH 57 (Prixegtae Caoetefee Ud) J Bay 611 — E Carter -
- 611 D Biggs 91

12 (15) 220222 BE POUTE 18 (V) (HamOtai ThontettK* PhJ M Bril 86

13 (13) 300406 DON'T BE 8AI0 7 (V) (M CTHcean) J Btertagtoa 8-6

A smote 92
_ R ms 96
K Fatal ®

14 (6J

15 (19)

16 (18)

17 ft

18 (17)

19 ft

62® OOWffVNA 8 (SB Ewlni De Rotablc!) M Stoide 5-5.

GOuUtU S$

3406® JADE RINCR 8 (B) (R PrelM Us N kbndtay 8-6 NCraMi 91

MGHTMARE LADY (A Iririi) W Hobai 66 MTobbuB -

0055 SEASTRAWlB(SonSasRadfC)MBtans)a9d66 6 BanfiM 93

206® SWFTLET 15 (D Cesgrwe) D Cos^w* 6£-

D Hudson (3) W

0 TEXAS OTWKL 32 (G W Prttfcid-Gortlon] G PrlBiaO-Gortfln B6„ WHood -
00 TRBAHA 50 (A Comte) P Hotatog 86 — DHolwd 87

20 ( 2 )

BETTMl 62 Drwreyra. 61 Dorl Be Srid. 61 Be Potto 7-1 Red BaM. 61 Sea Start. 161 Good braga.

Lteutoy Hreil??1he btatRite Boy. 14-i Dta 01 Buftrarb. 161 oho

1991: POOCH BLAOL 64 J Ytemr (161) G Bh»n 18 ran

3.1 0 BRIAN TAYLOR MEMORIAL HANDICAP

(3-Y-O: £4,971: Bf 3yd) (12 nmners)

ft SI WtaffS SISNEr 10 (DflBBWiMotomnraflJGoBlBi 67.
(4) 1384-30 LAST E»T 25 (Dft (tea CffDenogtaaw torts 63.

6 Had ffi

DHotort tt

ft 4101® 7W5HRJL 9IAGE 7 (VXD/5) (Mr M Barter) M Ryan 613 D Biggs 95

ft 0141® HAaUMt8(D5ft (tea OloUerlJ Trite 613 JWewerft 94

ft 430413 TATE DANCS) 5 (D£) (UR J Dotefl R Amaru 612 LPIgott 9fl

160203 WADHIS DREAM 50 (COf)(E Carte) JBante 611 Stephen Davies (S) tt

(11) 110026 PALAC8BATE RACMQ 31 (D.Q (Palacagrie CriptraD* Lltfl J Berry 86 G Carer 85
(7) 141194 FUST 6015 18 (WVX) V Ashty) J Wratw 63 JQwn 91

ft MOfflO rt-TECH HONDA 11 (Eddy tartetto Homta Ltd) C ftrtan 62 GftrBrid 96

P) 00-2000 SASPAHH1A 64 (!fl (T Bbdaml) W tovta 8-0 PHodtason 98

fl2) 6041® FOREST FAfff M (F) (ta E Wtens) Rasa 7-12-

D Hantsoa (3) 96

12 (101 6564® WAI5TEAD 11 (B) (Snowtop Sbrt Co Ud) D H#sen 76 GBanrara tt

BETTltt 7-2 Ktart SteW. 62 Tito Oner. 61 Tn*U taro. 61 Hatfto 7-1 Fnt Gob. 61 ua Eat. 161
ffi Teth Honda. Ssranto 12-1 Btetes Dream. 161 Foret «iy. 161 riher.

1991: ABLE JET 62 Ow IfcAede# (161) Ur N ItocMOy 9 ran

i® 113* 6043? GOOD TSKS 74 (CD.BF.F C.S) Ain D Rabrnssn) B HaA 6160 . BWesl<4) 88

fbcerad ngnta Draw n DrcIbr Sb-llgora
tom (F — jell, p — gibed ig> u — ueeaun
nOH. B — tmuon tod S — jfcwed up R-
reftced P — ocqattk-dl. Haix'i fume Ojyi
urea tea oubng: J d umps. F a na (B —
Uarten. V — msn K— hood E — EyeSwefcl
C — nurse winmr D — dttancs Mate. CD —

com and rasraa mmer Bf — herat
CnomiTr n men idtei Going nn wtudi noru> to
wan iF — inn. good D tern, ran) G — joal
S — sofl. p»d to son. hewy) imu ntinart.
Irofite Agratewngtu RxkT pha Jny JlLMIte*.
Die Tones rmrae Hmdicappef's raug

3.40 TATTERSALLS MAIDEN AUCTION SERIES STAKES

(Qualifier: 2-Y-O: £3,106: 61 3yd) (16 runners)

1 (12) 5 BOB'S RETURN 103 (Mra GSmifi) MlomriOrc 611 PRoteccn -

2 (7) D DISTANT SPRING 55 (kfct G CaUenc] G PmctaO-Conton 8 B JFntog -

3 (10) G20 6ANGLEADER 22 IV Sutarafi) 5 Woods 68 B Rase 66

4 (51 SIXTH If ALLAN (D Gaham) Bob Jones 8-8 N Day -

5 ( 11 ) ACCESS FESTIVALS (Use DlKIrarelR Boss 67 MTetabur -

6 ft M UAWC5CU/BTT(RBannycEfle)6H(fs6r. OHofartrt

7 <151 056 WH0StiCBEST7(URAtort5)Ato«,67. WRyan 79

8 (13) 0206 OUR SHADS 49 (K hay) K any 66 - B Banted B7

9 (4) 0 SPMC SIXPENCE 22 (Cl tte*« UQ J FniM 66 GDuOdd -

10 (2) 4243 RACK mEfiRAPH 19 (BF)[CM»0J Pan 65 RPricaftfB

11 (IE) 0 SfVASH OF SALT 14 (B HaQQB) W Ltaggas 64 J Outer -

12-04) TRIANGLEPOMT (S MfiOCA) G FtdchanS-GvdDn 62 DHanBonp) -

13 (6) 0 MORE THAN LOVE ® (C VAigM) P Krikway 61 K Darby -

14 (1) 022 PBtDmCN 14 (The Loses Ownos Graup] J Fta 61 RWs tt

15 (9) 603004 HQIC MEAR8 (T Jemtagsi D Thom B-0 D Biggs 87

16 (8) SASSAWUSE MSB Mto) R Guest 60 C Hawtehy (7) -

8ETTM6: 7-2 Raring Teltgaph. 62 Ham AM. 61 Who's lie Bed. 7-1 Ol Shrtet 61 MtaRCUb. 161
Spring Sfapan, Gaebrato, 12-1 Sprisb 01 Sd. 161 ofteR

1981: ND CtttRESPWDBe RACE

4.1 0 JACK LEADER MEMORIAL CHALLENGE TROPHY

(Nursery handicap: 2-Y-O: £6;1 60. 71 3yd) (9 runners)

1 SATH DANCER 50 (DjG) (P S)"b G HnOBd 67 .

3344 S0U1BIS BAY 15 (Ms P Fedinr) Lad HweWgOOO 9-4 .

6131 AWESTRUCK 28 (CD/ft (MsDIhompBon} W ttaggis6l3.
10 -SBBir EXPRESSION BB (F) (Mrs R Hore) D Mails 611 .

KDariey tt
LPtogoa 92
N D|y 96

MTeMMt @

56255 TRUNDLEY 1N00D 19 (Mn E ttaey) G MdanFCankn B-8. — DHarrfsanft 96
212628 1REV0RSMMEP0MT5 8 (Cfl (T ChOd) M R)an 86 D Biggs tt

312153 IMSHWG CAP 19 (D,F) (Pbrade Racmg Sbfite) M PtsscsO 8-5 GDrtaMd 90

5145® F0M4ASTRE 3 (E) (Saracen ftactag) M TompUns 64 P Robinson 95

4131® SIRICE4-POS 21 0),F5) (D Ctepmai) C WflfamG 7-13- j Otero 97

BETTI HI 61 srao Dancer. 62 toretrock. 61 Wishing bp. 7-1 Sfiert Egression. 61 Sotoere Bay. 161
Feimasbo. 12-1 Tremnnlnsimto 161 Suto-A-Pna. 161 Tnvdlry Wood.

1991: IHSTRB.'S AGE 69 M Roberts (14-1) C Britain B ran

4.40

YARMOUTH ROADS HANDICAP (£3.470: Im 3yd) (17 lurmeis)

(11) 104314 SHfmGJEwa21 (CDF.G) (D fW) Ms L Aggcfl 610-0. L FtggoS 94

(15) 1-110® MABNITCENT 18^/5) (Ate PVBtfU tows 666 K Rarer (H) 93

(9) 914113 CORAL FLUTTEt 35 (C.F) (Ms J Payne) J ftyne 5-66 B Lane (7) 64

ft 623140 EDGEAMAY 15 (V5F^) (Th» Tbaugnind Entagr) J fills 3-61 RW M

ft 312313 ROCA IflJRADAII (C.BF5) (1 Corty) U Rjon 6612 D Btggs 96

14) 153510 MGHT TRANSACTION 18 (0^5) (A Hldbl A Hidb 5-612 N Warty (i) 96

(17) 64400 BLUE DfflFTER 28 (D Omni) JSitcOe 3-8-3 BBaae 90

ft 5603® DQNT DROP BOMBS 22 (Ms S Yoft A Scad 662 J Fate® 6

(13) (056® POSSESSIVE LADY 10 (DF.G) (J Pirafl) M BeJI 662 GDdflWI tt

(14) 000-003 STATE® AffABS 17 (Dfl (USB Sunwi C Hagan 661 OBteOteoi 94

(16) 40004A) CASE FDR THE CROWN 12S IMs B Cutay) B Caley 5-68 G Cate -

(21 060600 YDHGE T9«€R 27 (B.CF.G1 (Vte S Ft«») C WUSams 67-11 J Court 90

13 (12) 0304® HHRYWS1 15 (B.0F55) (S UflBriHI Fartua 67-9 JFvntag 91

(101 D55240 DEEVS 18 (D laneri C Benstaad 67-9 D Harrison (3) 97

15 (1) 500006 OAKBOURAE 1943 (Oakham Ltd) T Thomson Janes 4-7-9.. ._ NON-RUNNER -

IB ft 0030-00 SOCKBI 87 (Fft (Ms G Itiirtapj C IMbms 67-7 JQtem tt

17 ft 6-05600 CHAFF 41 (MS M Issrt D Mart 67-7 C Hatestay (7) 85

Long hatecap: Sottem 7-3. ChaU 612

BETTMG: 9-2 Eton Moada. 61 Strie 0 AflaK, 7-1 Coal FUte. 61 9Mng towi Casa fa The Ciom. 6 1
MagmkcM. im NigN Trasaaian, 12-1 Edgemray. 14-1 Orel Drop Botes. 16i tews.

1891: SWIMS JEWEL 4-63 L Pro* (4-1) £ flttn S cm

COURSE SPECIALISTS

TRAINERS

H Cecil
BHDs
MSbUB
J Berry

J Dunlop

WHaggas

Wtos

ftus

%

JOCKEYS

Wteas

FUdes

%

38

96

376

o Hound

5

12

41 r

8

29

27£

LPiggot)

8

37

21 B

a

94

268

WRyan

19

119

160

6

24

25.0

MTebtrtB

8

50

16.0

3

12

2SD

NCarifeia

5

34

14 7

11

50

22.0

R hfills

17

119

143

□ The Andre Fabre-trained
Zafonic. the impressive win-
ner of the Prix de la
Salamandre at Longchamp

on Sunday, was yesterday cut
to 4-1 favourite with Lad-
brokes for next year’s 2.000
Guineas at Newmarket

MANDARIN

2.30 Mr Reiner. 3.00 Jaunty Gig. 3J3Q S3ver Haze.
4.00 Cosmic Ray. 4.35 Souson. 5.05 Shut Up.

THUNDSTER

2.30 CtovermiD. 3.00 De Valera. 3J30 Aston Agan.
4.00 Captain Mor. 435 Souson. 5.05 KJtroum.

GOING: GOOD TO HRM

SIS

2.30 JOHN WADE HINO TRUCK SHUNG

HANDICAP HURDLE (£802: 2m 5f 110yd) (11 runners)

1 TS4- FRffM*6Cl£2f Ms VAcodey 612-0 CWaoMm

-541 MR REMSt 11 (C/) J Wade 611-11 D Ryan ft

630 MUBAARS 10 ftW.G £) B Rtchnond 611-11 H Gro

0E6 StBT 118 (BfANtnogifl 611-1 WaTWzg^ ft

PP 6 SECRET RNALE 176 R/&S) J Fal 1611-1 Rlfartey

MS 190 (C£S) F Sony 611-0 — B Storey

324- ACE OF DIAMONDS

IUP FASSADNIi 17
m HCKBEieiCT

041- CUNERULL !JP_(VF£k)"W&etSJey 4-1613 Ariagoto

I WBarter 11-10-9

, „n, — j 6 ) R Eanstw 6161 R Hodge (3)

10 UPP- ALAC 8 RIM ITS M Mi 7-10-0 A Mental

11 HP DAfnMTON BLAKE 11 (B) J Dotttr 6160 — P P)
61 Cbranfl. 7-2 1* Rakw. 62 An a Hums. 11-2 free Mra 61 Bidt
Benedd. 12-1 Muteare, 161 obea

3.00 HLMCO HANDICAP HURDLE

(£1,865: 3m 3f 110yd) (6)

1 836 JAUNTY 96 129 (pifl W AStopteHCll 611-10 A LtaWh ft
’ ~ B® J Em 7-11-0 AlUstsno

2 21*4 MSJLMO LAD t. ... .

3 M5 (was eftossa) ts r

4 wo HAW6U 11 ff5) G V/Bb 610-2

5 160 DEVALSTA 11 ft W Barter 4-10-0

6 UP6 ESCAPE TALK 35F J Dooti 6160

M itanngad 6163- S i

-J8

) Stony

A Maggie

„Pl**eyg)

64 f*vn Crossed. 2-1 Jeraly Gfe. 62 Uidtort Ud. 61 De Men. 361 Escape
TaHttotaro.

3.30 JAYNE THOMPSON MEMORIAL NOVICES
CHASE (£1.488: 2m If) (12)

2311 SLVER HATE 15 (DJ5) W A Staphaan 612-7 A Utaacfaft

246 ASTON AfiAM 189ft 6 MOOT 611-0

OP- CATOGAL 154 VTTlirtfiM 7-11-0 --SLynEB p)

S6 DKDALE LAD 124 M Banes 611-0 — CfirM

00/ NR ELATE 551 JJDbnioa 611-0 Mr N Yrtm

4PF> (XJHtfW LOD6E 139 Mb A SteUate 611-0 R Quart

■32F RS) SCORPION 11 (Y)WWBfeaa 61 J-fl Al

064 AL8ARI17 G Bdrailj 61612

122- TRE5 AMSOS 118 ft J Jnhnan 61612 P I

362 D0UT9t025llBZ&are6169— IfcTItailaA

AM «i«
iHekney

ll 54-2 JH1Y JU1 22 ® fl Aflan 610-9.

12 47V4 DIZZY DEALER 15 Ms JJada 6167.

BSwey

y Surra

62 Sftec ta. 61_Aa» Aga.^UJ Ata.61_ Jrtly JB. Tre AirigE_.p-1

Red Scagiri). 161 DeOno. t

i Lad, 161 Oban.

4.00 RAtSBY QUARRIES HANDICAP CHASE

(£1,917: 2m 5f) (4)

1 32 -S CAPTAIN MOR T7JCJW.G5) W A Stetascn 1612-0 C fire#

2 262 CQSliC RAY IJJtFASl Ms V Actttoy 7-160—. A Uaoter

3 U313 DRECTWTBBESf 15(F£^lDHiysSmHl6160PWBOo«I{7)

4 60S WKTS W CHARM 22 ft G Catenati fl 10-fl- - A Marigai
64 Cosrrac Bay. 2-1 Capton Ma. 7-2 Dfacd IriaeSL 6l Who's h Ctagt

4.35 PETER TODD, BBC MASTERMIND FINALIST
NOVICES HURDLE (£897: 2m 5i 110yd) (11)

/P66 BAUJOWAY BREEZE ItOaiys am 7-11-6- — J Supple
6 GLENORAN 251 V Thaaen 611-0... -S Lyons

326 LE PEUPTS ISLE 111 fit Bros 5-11-0 DJMritaBft

06 RLWMG UffiXY 139 W A SRphenmn 611-0 C&anl

316 SA.VBt WHO 97F (F.G) Ms L teren 611-0 LOtiara

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Gooch takes the hate mail in

l:

Gooch: long innings

G raham Gooch may
have brought stabil-
ity, discipline and an
inspiring form of leadership
to the England team but,
today, he mil end his twenti-

eth season in cricket mil
await that fickle public opin-

ion now considers him a
killjoy and an ocrc.

He sat on the balcony of the

pew Bristol pavilion yester-

day with a bulging bag of
tetters. Some were personalty
abusive, some alleged spite
and jeaknuy. Each one at-

tacked him for the decision,
inextricably linked with his

powerful role as captain, to

leave David Gower out of the

winter tour.

In years gone by, Gooch
might have been bridling sdf-
righteousty. He knows better

now bat the subject being

Gower and the pair's relation-

ship being long and varied, he
is not without feelings. “On a

personal level’' he said caze-
fidty, i*I do fed ganrindy
sony for David because he
has done nothing wrong and

he must be struggling to come

to tows with it
“He took it badly when r
phoned him with the news

and I. don't blame him for

that ft was a very marginal
decision and, David being
David this sort of reaction
was inevitable. He has a vast
pubtie following because of

the pay he plays and the

dignified way he conducts
hrmoldf I understand
and l am not at all surprised

to have received so many

unpleasant letters:

“These things wadi over
me mow. though. I didn't
stand out against David.
Thrafe was no question of me
saying I did not want him on
the four. The decision was a
(me and It was always

■one

The England captain gives Alari Lee, cricket
correspondent his reaction to fhe uproar

caused by the decision to drop piavid Gower

THE TIMES TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 5 1 992

but in rime, it will be forgot-

ten, if we win the Test series
tuid Graeme Hkk scones
three hundreds, everyone wiD
say we are wonderful again.”

Gooch refutes the concep-
tion that. Gower was consid-
ered too old, as well he might
The captain himself is 39,

going on 40, andincreaam^

a revelation in his own mind.

“I surprise myself that J am

still playing as well as I am."
he said, utterly without vani-
ty. “When you get eo be this
old, you feefyoa ought to be

thinking of parking tip

somehow; I am not
“In most ways. I fed no
different to five years ago. I
get more tired and

mg is harder each season fait,

when l am hatting it is just

the same as ever. In the

second half of this season I

fed I have' played really wdL

Keep getting runs and you
can cope with, anything."

; and due fear of a
Hating injury, is
Gooch’s greatest en-
emy now. He may have ontyl
12 months more of Tesfl
cricket' but he does not. dis-

count playing another Eve:
seasons for his beloved Essex,

though not in his accustomed

No. 1 position. T ban
dropped down the order fb

the past couple of games ant

I bad thought of batting at su

r.

Sussex regain control after spin bowling resumes

next year. I nowfed I should
open tor another year if 1
want to keep playing .tor
England,” he explained

Hisostensibty free time, up
to Christmas, is aheaxty wefl
booked, beginning with two

public speeches on Thursday
and some pit-stop hospital
surgery on Friday, when the
troublesome ganglion on bis
right hand, win be cut oul A
holiday in Portugal wiD be
combined with some coach-
ing and he will be 'running
and riding his bike to stay in
trim, not onty tor the India

tour but for his first attempt
at the London Marathon next
April

But nothing about the re-
markable Gooch is more sur-
prising than tbe fact tbathe is
returning to India. II years

after the tour which so dispir-
ited him that he signed up for
South Africa. “I never
thought I would be going

bade," Ik admitted. “But I am
a; different player and a
different character now. It Is
op to me to make .sue that
younger players do not get
into tire same frame of mind
tbatrdld.” '

Gooch, you sense, is quietly
confident of adding to his
considerable achievements
on this tour before {adding
his one abiding ambition
against Australia next sum-
mer. Eh his . mind, painful
memories of the wretched
England performances in
Australia three winters ago
drive, him an. “I don’t like to
be raffed over and lose badly."
he said. “I can take inning so
long as we compete. In the
past, .there were too many
people in our cricket who did
themselves no justice, who
did not even seem motivated
If one thing has improved in
my time in charge, I hope it is
that" . . ■

effect as Yorkshire slip

By John Woodcock

HOVE (third day of four):
Yorkshire, with six second-
innings wickets in hand, am
56 runs behind Sussex

IAN Salisbury came to tbe
fore at Hove again yesterday,
just when Yorkshire looked to
be digging themselves out of
trouble; He so unsettled them
that by dose of play they had
slipped from 76 for no wicket
in their second innings, the
score at which Salisbury came
on.ro 145 for four. With a first

deficit of 201 already
f their necks, a Yorkshire
defeat seems almost
inevitable.

Yorkshire had had their
spirits kept up for the first half
of the day by Peter Hartley,
whose- &-1 11 in 37.2 overs on
a pitch which has been die
despair of the other faster
bowlers, was a wonderfully
wholehearted effort In 27
overs Jarvis, one of Yorkshire's
two surprise choices tor this
winter’s tour of India, was
nothing like as threatening.
Nor, for that matter, was

Stephenson when Yorkshire
went in again an hour before
tea.,;

For the first 25 mimtipg of
the- morning Hartley did
everything but gei a wicket
Butne is made of good, sturdy
stuff and his fuck duty
changed. The last bowler to
take eight wickets in.an.jn-.
rungs for Yorkshire. Stuart
Fletcher, is now on the Lanca-
shire staff Similar in shape
and style to Hartley. Fletcher
had 8-58 against Essex at
Sheffield in 1988.

The season is ending at the

Kent poised to finish second

By Geoffrey. Wheeler

KENT have all day at
Edgbaston to complete a mop-

ping-up operation against
Warwk"

arwickshire to secure second
place in the Britannic Assur-
ance championship and with
it the prize-money of £23,000-
Although Warwickshire
recovered some of their poise
in the first innings through a
fine effort from Andy Lloyd,
captaining them for the last
tune, and stalwart resistance
by Tim Munton. the
nightwatchman. they followed
on 3 14 behind.

Lloyd hit a six and 12 fours
in his 76, while Munton made
47 before the Kent spinners,
Davis and Hooper, wrapped
up the innings.

They caused another break-

down after Twose and Moles
bad put on 82 for tire first
wicket in the second innings
and Warwickshire, with five
wickets in hand. still need 194
to make Kent bat again.

Essex produce unlikely vic-
tories so regularly that it will
be no real surprise if the
champions escape from
another tight comer against
Gtoaeestevshirc at Bristol.

With Stephenson making a
dedicated 93, they cleared the
first innings arrears of 198 for
tbe Joss of two wickets. But
three wickets fell at 227 to the
spin of Ball and Davies,
including Prichard, who has
been voted Britannic Assur-
ance cricketer of the season.
Gooch and Garoham win

resume today with onty 67
runs in tire bank.

Thirteen centuries have so
far been scored in this dosing
round of matches, three by
Somerset, whose 616 for sev-
en against Nottinghamshire,
who need 251 to avoid deeat
by innings, was their
highest total on the county
ground at Taunton. Rob
Turner, the former Cam-
bridge University captain,
scored his maiden hundred
before tire declaration.

Although . Ramprakash
joined Roseberry and Carr as
Middlesex century-makers at
the Oval, tire team total was up
more than 441. to which
Surrey have replied with 14 1
for three.

wrong time Cor the Sussex
batsmen. Before this 432
against Yorkshire they scored
563 against Lancashire at Old
Trafiord. What is more, the
first six In thdr aider were all
bom or educated, or both,
within the county. They have
always been good at bringing
on their own, ifnot quite in die
class, in that respect, of their
present opponents.

When Alan Wells, Green-
field and Speight were aO out
in the first hour yesterday
Sussex were in danger of
squandering . the advantage
they had when, play started.
But Colin Wells, Moores and
Stephenson got the innings
going again, and Salisbury.
25 at the end, should have put
him in die mood to get at the
Yorkshire batsmen again. But
modem cricketing theory
bring what it is. it was two
hours and 36 overs before
SahsburywasaskedtobowLIf
Sussex had opened with him it
would have made more sense
than that’

Even in their great days
Yorkshire would lose their
composure against wrist spin.
They were known for it And
nowas soon as Salisbury came
on, Sussex resumed control
in his third over he bowled
KeQett In the over after that
Giddins bowled Morion off
his pads- and produced, from
somewhere, a lifter for White. .
Three overs later Salisbury
bowled Metcalfe, after winch
Yorkshire spent the rest of the
day hanging to the ropes.

Atherton thrives in

Lancashire spree

By Peter Ball

GATESHEAD FEU (third
day of fouri: Durham* all
second-innings wickets in
hand, are 197 runs behind
Lancashire

NOW we know what was
wrong with Lancashire: they
were saving the best until last
They are ending their trou-
bled season with a flourish,
savaging the weak Durham
attack, for 562. their highest
score of the year, as Martin
scored a maiden century and
Atherton a career-best 199.

Figures alone reveal the
monumental quality of Ather-
ton's innings. For right hours
and 20 minutes of sheer
remorseless efficiency
Atherton’s effort was

immense.

He gave onty one half

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Commentary

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Results

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FOOTBALL

Reports and scores from
the FA Premier League

Call 0839 555 562

Repom and scores from the

Barclays and Scottish leagues

Call 0839 555 512

CRICKET

Reports and scores from
the county championship

Call 0839 555 510

CiDstlMppcrniadbuf

48g per rata ether times he 1

chance, on seven on Sunday
afternoon. Yesterday he gave
hardly a glimmer of hope to
(he bowlers, as he steered his
side from a potentially signifi-
cant deficit when play began
into a position of strength.

For much of the day Martin
kept him company and was
not overshadowed. Martin
pulled and hooked severely,
and stood up to his fuH 6 ft 4 ins
to hit the seam bowlers with a
flourish.

Brown was despatched for
17 in one over as Martin
reached his I OO off 147 balls,
with one six, one five, and 14
fours. With SO against Not-
tinghamshire and a match-
saving 50 against Sussex, the
nightwatchman may soon
have to.be regarded as another
in Lancashire's clutch of all-
rounders.

Sadly though, cricketers
have no sense of history and
after a stay of 223 minutes
Martin got himself out. mis-
timing a puff which skied to
extra cover when the partner-
ship was worth 243. two short
of the Lancashire seventh
wicket record set by A H
Hornby and J Sharp against
Leicestershire in 1912.

Atherton, too. suggested he
was careless of records by
getting out one short of a
double century, edging to
Fothergfll after hitting 25
fours.

Durham’s trials were not
over. For weary bowlers the
sight of Austin coming in in
such a situation is dispiriting,
and one of the most destruc-
tive hitters in ti\c game last no
time in malting his presence
fob.

Graven ey was despatched-
for successive sixes as Lanca-
shire readied their highest
score since tbe 863 at foe Oval
two years ago. One record was
set It was the highest score
registered against Durham in
any form of cricket:

Britannic Assurance
county championship

Sussex v Yorks

HOVE (Mdd a/otkurj; VorfoMm. wflft a b
rteconitantags vrtchsts in fund *» 55 tuna
MM Sumac

VOIKSHMMb FW tarings 232 (C White 71
not M S A KbMI 53: 1 0 K Saftttuy 7 ior
M»

Second Innings

D Mcaoon b GkXfira 50

SAKaMbSofafcury 38

A A Uetcads b Safetxrv 10

CWhtocQMiSaUbQfettna 0

tflJE&iffiynocoU — _ 13

D Byas not out 23

Etfnato2.b4,wl,nb6) -13

Total (4wfcta) 145

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-88.2-90,3-80,4-106.

SUSSEX: Frat brings
JW Hat b Hartley

N J Lertwn C Btatwy b Batty .

..90

135

KGreenfotf cMMuAbHartey ... 16

•A P Wols a KoMl b Haflay 27

widest b Hatley 18

CMVWictao Haney 33

Morns bCaridc ... 20

F D Stephenson bw b Henley .24

B TP Donetmc White b Hartley 4

I DKSsWMycandb Hartley 25

ESHGiddtas notout _. 10

Extras (b 4. to 8. if 17} __ — ; 30

Total 432

3-287, ‘

Score after lOOownc 276*.

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-
297, 5-316, 6-338, 7-"

BOWUNG: junto 27-6-79-0: Hartley 37.2-7-
111-a: Camck 52-21 -93- v, Rdbkwon 163-
724* paoy 17-2-84*1.

Bonus points: Sussex 7. Yortahira 2.
UnsiMK N T Ptan and G A39ddey.

Somerset v Notts

TAUNTON onto day o f tour): Nottingham-
sheet witfi seni seconcHriranga rows in
band, need 251 runs id «oo art Mnm
defeat by Somerset

N0TTMGHAM8HIRE: Fttst brings 265
(G F Archer 83 nqt out RT Robinson 74)
Second tarings

PR Mad tun out ,„, 42

M Sooty not exfl 1,38

*R T Robeson b Ross 0

M ACnwdey bCadcfcK 9

IS Brarchaa not out 3

Extras (b 4. b 4, nb g.
Total (3 wkU)

FALL OF WICKETS: 1*76, 2*76, 396.

...JO

100

SOMERSET: Fret tarings

A N Haytuna a Leets b Ewan* 13

MljtftmeBaBrantaS bents 27

RJ Harden c Polrad b Evans 187

•C J Tavfcrt c AHad b Lcvita 125

R J Turner not out 101

IN D Bum C Bramhel b Evans 31

G DRosec Afford b Cr»rtiw ; 40

RPSneHe Robinson bLBwe 23

NAMetaxtornotouf 29

Extras (p 17, to 13, win 5) 40

616

Total (7 trios dec}

Scorn aflar loo awes: 342-3,

A R Cad** and H R J Tump dd not bat
FALL OF WICKETS; 1*29. 2-44, >309. 4-
411, S4$4, 6-530, 7-558.

BOWUNG; PSdU2i-&eMJ: Lewis 41-6106
S; Brans 30W; Afford 36615141;
RBTCWt IWWWfcCrawtejrlS-Sm-l,
Bonus pdirts;Somor3>«lrto6togtnnwlWe

UmpnK D J Constant anttG Sharp.

GlamvDorbys

CAROFF (third day of tour Gtarnomam
toss): Gunman new scorso 307 again

OLAMOnOAN: fit* Innings
SP Jamee IwbQrWth ...

H Monte c OTSonran b Mona wan 16

ADatocMamnsanbSbtdrin 26

*MP Maynard c«to b RkJierdEon 57

IVARUwrdioMonla bSladdhi as

P A O/fay c GriflUi b Rfchardeon 0

R 0 B C10R bw b Sbddn .17

tC P Metaon c TmMe b Bamefl

SLWaknb Warner

..^31
. 4

SOThonwscGrMBibStadcSrt — — 10

SRBanricknotout _____ — 0

Extras (b 1. b 6 rib 2] 9

Total (84.1 mare}

807

FALL OF WICKETS; 1-23.2-94.3-38,4-205,
5-215. 6251 7-256. 8-267. 9-307.
BOWUNG: Mortenaan 16-LS8-1; Warner
19-1-52-1; fSchaidsan 13-2-38-2; GrtffiOi
114H3-1; Staddto 22-1-102-4: Barnett 1.1-
0-7-1.

OenOYSHRE; -K J Bamett. IF D Boater.
T J G OTSwman, C J Abarns. F A Griffith. J
E Morris. A E Warner. R W Stodrfn. A w
RfchMdaon, O H Monansen and T A
Tweets.

Bonus pokns: Gtarmgan 4, Dorbysblre 4.
Un^ires: J H Hants end B J Mayer.

Durham ¥ Lancs

GATESHEAD FELL flhW _day

Ourhenv es.88Cond4nnlnge vridots
hand, are 107 ruis behtod Lancasfite
DURHAM: First tarings 312 0 D
Gtendsnen 78, FWG PteSsr7a W Laritns
63;M WM*B0n5tor63)

Second tartnos

WLarfttosnotout 24

PWGParternotoU

2S

Extras (bl.bl.ris 2) .

Total (nowfcfl

.53

LAMGASHme: ftst tarings
GDMeneSestFolharaabBrirtoridge .45
M A Atherton c FrihergB b Brirtridga 199

NJsjsakb Smith — 20

^HSs i rhiotfwrbwtbHtighee 0

M WaDdnson c Laridne b
GO Lloyd b*r bSmBh
tWKHaggb Smith

— 46
2

16

PJ Martin c&nifib Brawi 133

PAJDeFretacBmmbBeinbrWoe .22
ID Austin cLadrisbBainbridoe - — SB
A A Barnett not out 7

Baras (to 7. wl.nbS)
Total

,14

562

Score altar -100 were: 353-6.

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-71, M08, 3-113, 4-
175. 6-m 6620. 7-403,6483, 9646.

BOWUNG: Brown 264-137-1; Hughes 36
~ Briera

27.1-4-lt
■85-3; Graoney 300-

2-138-1:

12*31-0: Snith
826.

Bonua pohtsr-Dufram 6, LancashW fl.
Umpires: H D BW and J H Hampshire.

Gloucs if Essex

BfilSKX flikd&yofM: Essex. wiOtlive
aecond-irtrirMSWCtetsii hand, are ff7 fire
ahead of GfoucnmffrO
ESSEX: Fiat IririnQB 126 (C A Walsh 7 lor

Second tmlnos
c and b Bril

NV._.

J P Stepntnwxt b Garrenl
JJBLowfebBal

,46

P J Prichard b Darias
N Shahid a ife#!sibOaw« .
-GAGoort notout

-S3

.22

.0

36

• •

Matter of toning:;

of Sussex, dips Hartley to the boundary at Hove yesterday

tM A Gamham rwtout .

Extraslto9.wl.nb4)
Tori(5wUi) u

FALL OF WICKETS: ,1-113, 2-^. 3-227, 4-
227. 5-227. I

(MWABaynaS3,MGN
Andrew 4 tor S,; :

Bonus prints; Gtoucaataratial
Umpires: R Jidan and G

Fsaanrings

Wh3w7|;S

;SJW
7. Essex 2.

Wanrids vfai

EDGBASTON pWtfdtar of
srire, wtti five aacooo-i
hand, need 194 runs to
detort by Kart

KEWT:nreUnri«p«np‘;
Benson 122. CLFtooperlQ
88, N R Taylor 78; N KIK

Ward 163, MR
GR Cowdrey
” 4 tor 160)

WARWTCKSHniE: f
AJMototRwvbl
RQTvraseb)
DPOetterbl
TLPeonsyfbwt
D ABeevebtgd
TAMurionbl

N M K toritn c Darts b Peri
’TAUoydDDavta.
AADoraldbDavla

tKJ Piper cOavla bHocff -
G CSmai not out

Bfias toS, to8, w 1, nbff
Tosal {B4A <mi«)

FALL OF WOtETS: 1-0, *.3*4-101,5-

102, 6-182 7-246, 8-264

2S-wt-G;EKaon IS-

1 ..

4-38* Ponrizl -4-65-1;

Davta 1 5^-353: Hoopjr

Second bvtoe

A J Mrias c Manh b Hqqar

R G IVtosa c Banaon b Dirts
□ POsttar not cut

TL Ramey c Marsh bHdper ... 0

DA Reeve run oU «a.T

NMKSmtaicFtarrirt0Uterts

*TA Uoyd not Out

earasOai.feU
Total (5 wltts)

FALL OF WICKETS; t-ffi ’-96. 346, L86.
5102.

Bonus points: Wanridcsrb

UmpIreRKE Primer aim RShephenL

SnrrfryvMIdtesex

"t

.Wtfl
need
ptorai against

tarings

120

1T4

THE OWL (third day or r
seven SW-rYsnos iMcfae
193 rens to ovoid tori
MUriwet

WOLESEXiFl
MAftosebenycIward,

JD Carre Brawn bead

U R Rsrnpakaah kwb.tason 117

IK RGftMn a Kendrick mrifeig 8

*MW outage Lynch
AtebHEbtoc SM b
PNWeriwb Bryson .1
RL Johnson r Kendrick
JEEntouraybBiyBon
A RCFracarb Bryson
PCRTrinalnaou .

Erins Ob 6. rb 13
Total

Score affor.iOO wets: 2X2.

"289-

-.3
_ 8

. -2

.129

T. KentS.

richer..

ywm.

.22
.. 12
11

poing — L_ 1
2
4

-17

.23

, 441

2W5J9S.4-

FALLOFUKCKETS-.l-aai.

326. 5-368, 6-426. 7-4Ztft2B, 5433.
BOWUNG: Bryson 45.4-kl17-5: Bricher
34-7-05-1: 1 Vtod BoHng S515
126-4; Kflrtclriqk 18-MOH

. SURREY; FWhnlnQi -
DMWadcBromfbRwr 9

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deBromfb.Fn v

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GP Thorpe cBreMbWaakas 45

*tA J Stewart not out 51

M A Lynch not oil 24

Extras (b^ to 2, rto3) 5_2

ToCbI (3 wtos) I ; 141

A D Brmm. N M Ksndrtok, M A Butcher, l
d. RE Bryson and JBaOng to bat

WtattREI

FALLOF WCKETS: 1-9. 2-16,3-108.
Bonus poincs: Surrey a hSdclesflK 4.
UmpkBR J C Briderakine and M J KWm

leics v Norttmts

LECSSTER phW day at tau): IMaastar-
rims, wth mi sacrindMrigs etoftsts in
hone, are 172 runs ahead erf North»np*oo-
ahria ■

LBCESTHtSHBUb First tarings 352 (B F
SMh 86, T J Boon B1 . W K M Benfanrin 71)

’ Second tarings

T J Boon not out- — ; 70

•N E Briera c Loye b Curan 0

JJWWrtwlbwb Capel 23

JD R Benson b Capri. ... — 7

L Potior na out ^ 7

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123

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-6, 2-Tt, 342.

MOmHAMPTO M MI C. Firat Innings
AFordhamcBentanwhUtataa. — 84

MBLwobMtoB 1

R J 80% ratal — 167

‘AJUntocBrterablflfew .0

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KMCman tow b Prisons - —
A LPwberfcyc Smith b Patter _
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303

Total (7 wkts dac. S6 over*)

J P Taylor, N G B Cook and J N Snaps dd
noil

FALL OF WICKETS: T-11, 2-44, 344, 4«,
£214,6441,7-303.

BOWLING: MBns 21-2-00-3; Muflaly 24-5-
760; Benjamin 34.19-1; Parsons 21-10-
S4-1; PK»ar 22-5-OO-Z. .

Bonus- points: LriCsetaraWra 6, North-
amptonriSra?.

. Urapkor D O Qsieer end B Uadbariar. -

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87)-

Secoad tarings.

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FALL OF WICKETS: 1-106, 2-1ia -

WORCEHTSISMRE F5r« Rvitage

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WPC Weston CAymaEbManhsI — 36

RKHngwaihblmrsrni 43

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D B D’Oflvaira b Tbmar - — 43

IS J Rhodes cSmtoibTumar ; 45

SfUrenpiitbUdri 22

P J Newport b Timer — fi

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C M ToBay$id N V Reefford dd not beL

FALL OF WICKETS: t-26. 2-91, 3-85,4-66,
5-183. 6-196, 7-206, 8-223

BOWUNG: Oorm 17-2-460; ^Qng 120-
3 *-0: Uda) 40-13-762; Janas 1-1-00.
■Tumor 13-7663.- MsrsIriS 166436a

Bonus points: HanpsNra 5, WoroBstasbte
fl.

Umpires: BDudteston and R CTotofum

Minor Counties
Cbampionsttip play-off

Devon v Staffs

WORCESTER (Devon won toss): Staflbrd-
shto bast Devon ty 79 run

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FALL OF WICKETS: 1-58, 2-74, SOb, 4-97.
5-07; 6178, 7-200, 6201.

BOWUNG: Donohue 10.1-2-47-1; Wood-
man 105-1-461; Le F Wr&tg 8-022-0; ABn
11-4-15-3; White 4-0-16-1: Dawson 11-2-
47-1. .

DEVON

R N Gaywood b Hadreit

R 1 D ama n c Dean b Newman ....
N A Fobrdb Newman

...0

.73

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Total (422 own]

19

122

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-1, 26, 648, 4^8. S-
flB. Ml, 7-106, 6113, 6122
BOWLING: Newman 62-1-12-3; HachaD 6
320-1; Wbrtfiroton 62262: Sptora 7-2-
17-1; Myles MS-2; Dutton 7-C^

Atherton: 19^ for Lancs

PARALYMPICS

Brunt is #

r - .. /

proof
of solid

stature

By Aux Ramsay

STEPHEN Brunt and Mark
Famell won Britain’s last two
gold medals at the ninth
Paralympic Gaines late on
Sunday night It took the
team's tally to 40 golds from
their 12S medals won.

Both were running in the
partially sighted categories of
the marathon, the B2 and B3
classes. For Brunt in defend-
ing his paralympic tide, he
showed he has recovered from
an accident that could have
ended his career.

On a training run last year.
Burnt was in collision, with a
car. breaking a leg and pelvis.
As soon as hie had recovered,
he was docking 100 miles a
week arid has again proved to
be the best B2 marathon
runner in the wotkL

In Seoul Britain finished
third in the medals table.
While the team has kept that
position in Barcelona, for
Tony Sainsbuiy, the team
manager, it is not enough.
*Tm delighted with the perfor-
mance of the team,” he said.

“But we haven’t moved on
since Seoul The Germans
have and they are now push-
ing the Americans. You onty
have to look at the spread of
our medals to see that, if we
have prohlems witirthe swim-
ming, we are going to drop
down the table."

Wh3e tiie German Federa-
tion has pooled its resources
from each sport, Sainsbuiy
feds it has yet to happen in
Britain and that ft is the
British Paratyznpic Associ-
ation (BPA) who should take
the lead

“We don't want the BPA to
be involved a* the grass roots
level that's not their job," he
said. “But they’ve got to be a
catalyst There has to be
integration between the differ-
ent sports and disability
groups, if we are to make

I Disabled -athletes -mil take
part in the 1994 Common-
wealth Games, tire organisers
announced yesterday. Mary
Appleton, executive director.of
| the Commonwealth Games
Association iff Canada, said'
disabled men and women
would compete in athletics,
swimming and bowls. (AFP)

RUGBY LEAGUE

Leigh coach
hands in
resignation

By Christopher Irvine

DENNIS Ramsdale, the for-
mer Wigan wing, is to take
temporary charge of Leigh,

the first division dub. The
move follows the resignation,
after three months, of the
coach, Jim CreDfri, who.
Mamed boardroom inter-
ference.

■ The board meets tonight to
discuss the crisis, which fol-
lows the dismissals of Kerin
Ashcroft and Alex Murphy in
the past 12 months. Creflin
and his assistant Ray Clark,
walked out after theTSun’s
first win of the season, against
Chorteyin the Lancashire Cup
on Sunday.

John Stringer, the Leigh
chief executive, said the de-
mands made of Creflin tty die
directors had been reasonable.

Scott Mahon, tile Austra-
lian centre, makes his debut
for Leigh at home to

Castieford an Sunday.

> LANCASHIRE C

CUP: Qirir-

St Helena v
Swfn-

GREEMALL'S
tarffnel riaK |__

Wktaes: Saffodvt
anvWran.

JOHN. AffTHTS YORKSHIRE CUP; Quer-
taHMrc Bradford Northern v ShetGakl.
J readheratane Rovera v Hjrtdera-
H* v Leeds; WntefleM Tnrtjy v
Keighley.

BASKETBALL

Kings await
crucialtie

GUILDFORD Kings open
Ifae defence of their Carisberg
League title on Saturday yet
two days before, they face a
match that could prove as vital
as arty they will encounter this
season (Russell Kempson
writes).

On Thursday, Guildford
play Kalev Tallinn in the
return leg of their European
Cup first-round tie. Kings tra2 .
80-75 from tiie game in
Estonia and must overturn the'
deficit to take oh Limoges, of
Prance — the last hurdle
before the lucrative eight'-
team. 14-maich final pool

With a television deal of up
to £250,000 per dub bedaorn
ing. Kins cannot afford to
miss out luce they dyliastyegf-

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Stuttgart manager
selects Chapman
as cup danger man

From Stuart Jones, football correspondent, in Stuttgart

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LEEDS United will make a
new start in the European Cup
here tomorrow night by rely-
ing on old values. The focal
point of their first visit to the
Continent since 1979 wffl be
Lee Chapman, one of the few
remnants of a bygone era.

Even the German cham-
pions are wary of the damage
which may be caused by the
tall and comparatively immo-
bile 31 -year-old.

Chapman could “give us a
big headache”. Christophe
Daura, the manager of VfB
Sumgait, said. Although
Daum can call on the likes of

BuchwaJd, an experienced
international central defend 1
er. he declares that he has
nobody capable of suppres-
ing the aerial power he expects
to see demonstrated, particu-
larly at set-pieces.

Howard Wilkinson does not
disguise the limits- of his
intentions. Since his squad
spent yesterday either travel-
ling or recovering from the 1-1 ■
draw against Aston Villa on
Sunday, the Leeds manager
could empathise with Graham
Taylor.

“I would dearly love to have
worked with the players," he

Maradona ready for
Seville comeback

By Peter Robinson

DIEGO Maradona's rehabili-
tation is all but complete. After
serving a 1 5-month suspen-
sion for failing a drugs test the
incomparable Argentinian is,
it seems, about to return to the
game in the Spanish dty of
• Seville.

The acrimonious, two-
month stand-off between
Maradona and Napoli the
dub which still has him under
contract until July next year,
ended on Friday when die
Italians agreed, under pres-
sure from the player, who had
refused to return to Naples,
and Fifa, which has strongly
supported all efforts to bring
him back to game, to transfer
him. Within 48 hours,
Maradona gave the strongest
hint yet that he is to join Carlos
Biland a the former Argentina
manager, in Seville by taking
his place in the Sinchez
Pujufin stadium to see ins
prospective new dub play
Deportfvo La Coruna. The
tumultuous welcome he was
given on Sunday all but
overshadowed at 3-1 defeat.

StQl, Maradona, now 32. was
in good spirits. "According to
[my manager] Marcos
[Franchi], the move here is all
set and now Fifa has to
decide," he said. "I'm going to
make the most of it because I
haven't got long left in my
career.”

Although no fee has been'
agreed between the two dubs,
it seems Maradona will make
his league debut on Septem-
ber 27 at home to Logroh&

It was not a good weekend
for David Platt, the England
player with Juventus. As Juvg
trounced AUrianta 4-1 ai
home. Platt, unable to gain
selection in the side, had to
look on from his seat in the
stadium as Andreas M&Her,
his German rival for a place in
midfidd. crowned a superb
display with two goals. AC
Milan, after escaping from
Pescara with a 5-4 win. re-
trieved by three goals from
Marco Van Basten after the
home team had led 4*2. are
already, perhaps inevitably,
top of the table. .

said, “but we haven't, got the
time. If we did try something
new, we would be in danger of
foiling in between two stools.
AH we can do is do what we do
wen.”

Without Wallace, the only
player unavailable, their at-
tack has largely lost the de-
ment of surprise, but
Chapman argues that his role
is even more pivotal

“There aren't too many
traditional English centre for-
wards around at the mo-
ment" he said, “and certainly
none of them in European
football, We've become a dy-
ing breed over the last few
years but when used properly,
they can be as effective as any
other form of striker.

“If the German coach has
picked me out it is only to
confirm that it is very impor-
tant for me to perform well for
the team to do well. We’ve had
a lot of success playing with a
big target man over the last
three years.”

The tangible rewards have
been the second and first
division tides. Should they add
the European Cup to the list of
honours. Leeds stand to profit
by more than £5 million, a
financial bonus so huge that
Wfikinson admits he dares not
consider the consequence of
defeat Leeds, though, are not
yet die consistent force they
were last season. Nor, it would
appear, are Stuttgart Last
weekend they were knocked
out of die German Cup by a
second division dub and
Daum considers a victory,
even by the narrowest margin,
would be “exceflent".

He tempered his apparent
pessimism, which extended as
for as regarding a goalless
draw as acceptable. "The anxi-
ety of their crowd forces Leeds
to go forward at EU&nd
Road," he said. The implica-
tion is that he believes the
English champions might be
more vulnerable in die second
leg in a fortnight

GOLF

Allenby hoping to
crown season
with added bonus

By Mel Webb

Lip service: resilient Edberg renews his acquaintance with the US Open trophy

ARGENTINIAN LEAGUE: Son Lorenzo da
Atmaro 1, Lartua 0. Boca Jurors 2,
Huraqan Z Vetaz Sarefiefd 0, Form Canf

Oasis d. Betarano (Cantata] 0. River Ptere
O. San Martin Hue

fife-r.'s*

! , (> ii • Charleroi 0; And

* - Srnndad litas S

I % ! w.i * Waraflem 1. Royal

(Tucuman) 0, NmaTa Old
Boys 0; Deportfvo Eaparial 3. Omnaeja
Eeprina La Baa 1 : hdepandtenta 1 . Racing
CW) 1 . Estudenles da la Plata 2. Platens® 1 .
Ro&arto Central t. Departure MancByu
iCorrientesI 2, Argerfinoa Jinlon; Z TaUsras
(Cantata) 2. Luting paaBtana (attar ch
(retches): 1. Boca Juniors. Mb. 2, San
Lorenzo de AJmogro. 8: River Plare, a
BELGIAN LEAGUE: PC Bruges T. RSC
Charleroi 0: AndBrtecM 0, Bavarian 0;
Standard litas 2 RWO Motenbeak 1;

ft • V *

[ V L;i‘-

Germinal Owen 3, Loharen 1. Lsadtag
portions (altar ab games): 1. Andsrtecht
1 ipte. a Standard Ltega. 9: 3. Bowen. 9.
BRAZILIAN LEAGUES: SSo Paulo: Green
group: Connthons 0. SSo Paulo 1 . Ituano 2;
Sartos 2, Portuguese 3. ftagarmno 1 , Santa

Si X1J
ti--'

America (SSo Pauls) 4,

an88l;F«roviarta2.A»acaM»0:

Mogi Mnm 2. Olimpia 3; Fto Branco 1 . Ponte
Preta 2 SAo Jrate 3. Novorizortro 2: XV de
Jau i. Uraflo SSo Joflo 3: XV da Plradcata

l. Marta 1. Leading portions (after 14
matches): 1, Pome weta, 21pts; Z Hta

Branco. 20: '3. Mogi Wriia ’ie. Ho de
Janeiro: FM phase: America (FSo da
Janeiro) 0. Funtaanse t; Americano 2,
America (True Rios) 1; Bangu 3. Campo
Grande 1; Botafogo (Rio de Janeiro) 1,
Flamengo 0: Vote Ftedonda 0, Maduretra 0.
Learing posttarK l, Rummnes. ptoyad
6, 1lp&: 2. Bangu. 6,'B; 3. Vasco da
Gama. 4.7.

DUTCH LEAGUE: Fortune SUM O.FC
Tvnrts Enschede Z SW Dordrecht *90 0,
VfUam H TBrurg Z PSV Bndhovan 7. BW
Den Bosch 0: Spona Rotterdam 0. MW
Maastricht 0; Go Ahead Eagres Devamar 1,
Foyenoord i; FCUftachM.ro Groningen ft
RKCWraM

0. ttraae Arnhem a Lasting

posHons: i. PSV Bndhowan, ptawid 4.
Sptel Foyenoord. 5. 8: 3, FC L&recht

FRBICH LEAGUE: Paris Sant-Germain 2.
VStandenneo 0: Totion i. Nantes 3; Ntaws

1 , MsraeBes 3; AS Monaco 0, Montpefer D.
Ammo 1, St Edema 0: Lyons 2, Strafcoug
Z La Havre 0. Socheux 0, Lens 1. Borcteaux

2. Totiouse 0. IJto a Mete i, Caen a

(after sb malches): 1
i. Ilpts, 2. Nantes. 10:3.

Paris

MsrseBes. 10.

GERMAN CUP: Second round: Bayer
Leverkusen i, Kaaeretoulem 0; Barussta

Dortmund 2, B^em

mend won 7-6 on pens); FC Si 1

Erturi 2, Bayer UenSngen 4; SC *06
Banteg 1, EhAracrt FraMisi 3: Wentar
Bremen amateurs 1, Borvssla

MOnchsnrtsttaech Z SpVbg Beckum 0.
Bremen 7: Bor-WSfla

Essen 2.

SdMceMO.

ITALIAN LEAGUE: Ancona Z Sempdorta 3:

Brescia 0, Torino 0; Foggia 2, NapoB 4;

0; Hemaztanale 3.

Genoa D, AS Rome .

Cagtal 1; Juvcavus 4. Ataiarta 1; Lado 2.
Ftawiana2; PomaS, Ucfenre 1: Pescara 4.
. AC Mfen 5. Loatfi® positions (after two
matched: 1, Mten. vpfc: 2. Juwrtrn, 3, 3.
Torfntva

POfmiGUESE LEAGUE: CS Meribmo 7,
GH Vbente 1; Estord I. Beta Mer 0;
Belenenses a V4ona Guimarara 0. Pages
da Ferreira 2, ClweeO; Bnense 3. FC Porto
1: Srtguelros 3, Boavfeta 1; FamalcAo 1,
Benftca O. EspWw 1. Farense i : Sporting
Braga 0. Sporting Lisbon a Loading
patatoro (after taut matches): 1. CS
Mvttmo. 6pts, 2, Espmho. 8; 3,
Farense. 5.

SPANISH LEAGUE: Espsrioi 1, Atl&tao
Madrid 3; CAtiz 1. Reel Zaragoza 1: Real
Owetto 1 . ABite&c BUmd 0; Rayo Vaterano
2. Logaries 1; Ceta Vigo 0. Valencia 0.
Savta 1 , Depoittre La Cororta 3: Osasuna 3,
Ataeceie 0; Rsal Sooedad 1. SporUng G$on
Z Real Madrid 3, Real Burgos 0; Tenenfa 1.
Barcelona 1. Lasting poaHons (after two
maichos]: 1. Deporttire La Carrie, 4ps: 2,
ABfltico Madrid. 4; 3 equal. Barcefcna and
Valencia. 3.

Edberg reaches new level
in search of excellence

From Andrew Longmore. tennis corespondent, in new york

IT IS possible that when be
does finally hang up his
racket and take to the serious
business of playing golf,
Stefan Edberg wfll recall his
second US Open tide as the
finest moment of his career.
Even Tory Pickard, who
knows Edberg better than
anyone and who must have
died almost as many deaths
over a gruelling week, has
been surprised by the resil-
ience of his champion.

“He has proved he has a lot
of qualities people didn't
think he had." Pickard said.
“At one stage earlier this
year, I thought we were right
at the top of the career graph.
Now he has taken it up
another level. This has been
one of die finest perfor-
mances a professional tennis
player has ever produced."

To cap a day of celebration.
Edberg’s sixth grand slam
title, achieved with a 3-6, 6-4,
7-6, 6-2 victory over Pete
Sampras, came on Pickard's
57th birthday.

On the grounds that the
Swede, an ordered and sin-
gle-minded man, does things
two-b)Htwo — first, two Aus-
tralian titles, then two at
Wimbledon, now two at
Flushing Meadow — the red
day of Roland Garros will be

the subject of Edberg’s spe-
cial attention far his remain-
ing years in the game. At the
age of 26. he still has time to
complete his collection of
grand stem titles, though to
do so he would have to labour
even longer and harder than
he has over the past
fortnight

The Swede’s victory contin-
ues the European strangle-
hold on the US Open, which
has been broken only once,
by Sampras two years ago. in
tiie past eight years (Ivan
Lendl won his three titles as a
Czech, not an American).

As Edberg laboured day
after day through the bottom
half of the draw, reaching his
nadir when 0-3, 15-40 down
to Michael Chang in the fifth
set of his senu-finai, you
could have gained long adds
against the record being
sustained.

But not only did Edberg
whip the title and the cheque
for $500,000 from under the
noses of the Americans, he
denied the hosts their first
dean sweep of grand slam
titles since Don Budge won
all four in 193 8, and deprived
Jim Courier of the world
No. I ranking.

Edberg enjoyed his share
of luck — a mis-hit service

return against Richard
Krajicek, a net cord against
Lendl — but his biggest slice
of fortune was finding
Sampras, not Courier, in the
final. Courier would have
dime much more damage to
Edberg’s frail sendee than
the more brittle Californian,
who was suffering from stom-
ach trouble and dehydration.

Once Edberg had shaken
off his aches and pains he
began for the first time in- the
tournament to serve and
volley with the authority of
12 months- ago. indeed, it
was Sampras who inherited
the twitch, serving 1 1 double
faults to Edberg’s five.

Sampras's high point came
Mien he served fora two sets
to one lead But he was
broken bade and. moments
later, lost the tie-break as
well. By then. Edberg, who
later described his passage
through the tournament as a
“bumpy road", was on a
smooth slope downhill to the
finish.

RESULTS: Fnais.' Men's singles: S
Edberg (Sen) M P Sampras (US). 3-6. 6-4.
7-6. 6-2. Women's doubles: G Fernanda:
(US) and N Zvereva {CS) U J Novotna and
L SavctankoJMeUand (Lai). 7-6, 6-t

Junior boys stagles: B Dum (US) b( N
1. 7-5. 6-2. Junior girts r

Bert (tar), 7-6. 6-2 Junior girts singles: L
Deveripon (US) Is J Steven (USl. 6-2. 6-2
Men's tavtaton dottles: P McNamee

(Aus) and T Smd (Cz) « R Luc (US) ana I
~ j. 6-2 6-3

Nasase (Rom).

AFTER five long months
away from the bosom of his
family, young Robert Allenby
was on the point of booking
his passage back to his native
Australia when he got a phone
call inviting him to play in the
final stages of the Equity and
Law Challenge. He accepted
and. yesterday, he took the
first step towards recovering
the cost of his ticket by taking
the lead after the first round at
Royal Mid-Surrey.

Allenby. 21. first came to
prominence, when he all but
won the Australian Open at
the end of last year when still
an amateur.

In thus, his first season on
the European Tour, he has
won more than enough to
guarantee him his playing
card for next season without
having to win it at the Tour's
version of water torture at the
school in November.

By nature a retiring son of
chap, he nonetheless has
enough Aussie chutzpah to
dedare that he expected better
of himself. Understandable,
really. He has only* won about
£55,000 this season; it must be
nice to be that lousy at your
game.

He birdied the 2nd to claim
a point in the Stableford
scoring system of this unique
tournament and two eagles —
worth two points apiece — and
four more birdies later he was
bade with nine points to lead
by one from Grant Turner,

with Roger Chapman. Russell
Claydon and Malcolm Mac-
kenzie a point further back in
the hunt for the E25.000 first
prize.

Finally, a tale of private
enterprise that went wrong.
One of the caddies, with an
eye for the main chance,
hurriedly put together a yard-
age chart and sold copies to his
fellow bag-carriers.

Sadly, that was not the end
of the tale, because it tvas not
long before it was discovered
that their mate’s entrepreneur-
ial spirit was not matched by
his performance. In short his
yardages were all wrong.

He beat a hasty retreat
pleading that his pedometer
had mistakenly been set in
metres and he had given the
distances in yards. A
reaonable enough excuse, you
might have thought — but it
still did not explain how he
had managed to miss a fair-
way bunker on the 1 7th.

It was slap bang in ihc
middle of the driving zone, as
more than one player discov-
ered to his cost. A man. it is
understood, is being enthusi-
astically sought for
questioning.

SCORES; First round |GB JXl lioJjnd
life's sufedi 9 pointa: R ABatn> |Auj a
0. Turner 7: R Crupman. R Cuntfcn. M
Macfcenae 6: D Gfod EL M Grtt-J e
Mjichtanh: M Mortond A Foc'-Dtrvi

iSw). R Boi&i A- V S<ngh (F»i. J Samhi r
W ucfeaor. I - ’

. P Walton P L3 wt*j j Robson
3: R Lee: S Field, J Tomncond iUSi. D R
.tares. P BfoafturcL P Baker C Mosin. G
J Brand. D CfeyVe 2 P HaU G Ralph 9
Lone. P Senior tAusI i:DCoojx» Reared:
E Darcy, D J Ru&cfl

IN BRIEF

Lamb given
date to
meet TCCB

ALLAN Lamb will appear
before the disciplinary com-
mittee of tiie Test and County
Cricket Board fTCCB) on Sep-
tember 23 in connection with
his allegations of ball-doctor-
ing by Pakistan.

By.giving a newspaper in-
terview without permission.
Latah was in' breach of his
Northamptonshire contract.

Whitaker wins

Equestrianism: John

Whitaker, of Britain, took the
£125.000 Spruce Meadows
Masters Grand Prix in Calga-
ry, Canada with tiie 1 5-year-
old German-bred Henderson
Gammon.

Shearer’s award

Football: Alan Shearer, of
Blackburn Rovers, has been
named the first Barclays
Young Eagle of the month.

Garratt critical

Speedway: Wayne Garratt.
the Newcastle rider, has had
brain surgery after a crash.

AMERICAN

FOOTBALL

Coferis miss
ends 49ers’
final chance

THE Buffalo Bills, losers of
the last two Super Bowls,
finally turned back a good
team from the National Foot-
ball Conference on Sunday by
beating the San Francisco
49ers 34-31 in the National
Football League (Robert
Kiriey writes).

Thurman Thomas's 1 1-
yaid touchdown run with
three minutes to play proved
decisive. Mike Gofer, of the
49ers. failed to tie the game in
the waning seconds when his
47-yard field goal sailed wide.

Jim Kelly, of Buffalo, passed
for 403 yards and Steve
Young, of San Francisco.
totaDoi 449 yards. Each com-
pleted three touchdown tosses.
There were no punts.

A federal court juiy in
Minneapolis struck down the
league's system of free-agency
as being in violation of anti-
trust laws. Eight players had
argued that the system limited
their ability to earn salaries
comparable to those available
in sports with unrestricted
free-agency.

ARSENAL'S guns are being
spiked regularly, so they will
probably have to be content
with a point away to Sheffield
United. Sheffield have a habit
of excelling against the more
glamorous sides, having al-
ready defeated Manchester
United and Liverpool at
B ram all Lane, and can repeat
the home draw against
Arsenal last season.

Queens Park Rangers,
London's leading team, may

have their progress checked by
Middlesbrough, wl

D ... whose away

form received a considerable
boost with a victory at
Manchester City on Saturday.
Middlesbrough look good for
a draw, especially as Rangers
are inclined to drop home
points.

Birmingham City are
adapting well to playing in a
higher division, whereas Lu-
ton Town, their hosts, are
having problems adjusting to
a lower division. Despite Bir-
mingham’s healthier league
position, a draw would be no
great upset

Another likely three-pointer
for the punters is Rangers v
Heart of Midlothian, who are
separated only by goal differ-
ence at the top of the Scottish
premier division.

Local derbies usually make
nee sdectii

good treble chance selections
and I am taking Dundee
United v Dundee to continue
the trend. Hyde v Barrow is a
confident treble chance choice
in the HFS Loans League
premier division.

Saluday. September 19
unless stand

PREMIER LEAGUE
1 A VBa v Liverpool
1 Evenon v C Palace
t Norwich v Shaft Wed
•VNoftm FuCovenrry

1 OWrtam v ipswtah
XOPRvMKMteSbW
XShefiUtdv Arsenal

2 Southampton v Leads
2 Toftenham v Mai UW

X Wm&totton v BtackDwn

Not on coupons: Man-
chester Ctty v Chelsea
(Sunday)

FIRST DIVISION

1 Bamstavv PeiBteoro

1 Bristol R v Gnmsby
2CambUtdvSu*»land
t Lacoster v Brantford

X Luton v Birmingham

2 MifcvaU v Notts Co _

1 Newcastle v Bristol C
1 Wombs v Watford

Not (hi coupons: Sojtft-
end « Portsmouth (Fri-
day), Swindon v Oxford
ay); Tranmere v
on (Friday). West
rDfliby (Sunday)

Ham v I

SECOND DIVISION

2 Blackpool v Brighton

1 BotonvBoummth

2 Bradford C v Preston
X Burnley v Mansard
2 Chester v Stockport
1 v Leyton O

1 FuftamvHymouth

1 Hartlepool v Port vote

2 Huddasfld v Sfcwnsea
XHidvFtathefham

1 Rearing v'

2 Soto

THIRD WVtSiON

1 Barnet u Hereford
iCrtdiflvGlUngham

2 Chwrafw v CaiflBiB

1 HaStaxvScatJOto

*V Maidstone V Wrexham

2 RochdNe v Darlirtgfori
2 Scunthorpe vOtt®

X Shrewsbury * Buy

2 Torquay v Norttemptn
1 York v Colchester

Not on coupons: Don-
caster v Uncoil (Friday)

HFS LOANS LEAGUE
ff&nER DIVISION
1 Emieyv Fleetwood
1 Hotvuiehv Goose

v Barrow
v Southport

SCOTTISH PR9HB?

1 Aberdeen vFWtrck

X Dundee UtdvDmdee

2 FaUrii v Ceftta

1 Hfoemian v Airdrie
X Mothrvrefl v St Johnstne
X Rogers vHians

SCOTTISH FIRST

2 Clydebank v Stiffing
2 Cowdenbth v FMh
1 Dumbarton vAyr

1 DuntrmtnevMeadmbfc
X KSmamock v St Mkren

2 Morton vHamflten

SCOTTISH SECOND

XAfonratfiv East Rle
1 OydevFfirfer .

Not on coupons Berwick
v Queen's Parte; East
aiding vAioa; Montrose v
Queen dime South; Sten-
housemur v BTOCftn;
Stravaerv Ahlon

■Void

BU= CHANCE (home team s): Queens
n R. Hua. aw^awryj^n.

TRHJLE
P3flil

UA3n rnri T r ••><-,

Dundee Urtted. ModfeW*.

Arbroath

BEST DRAWS: Ftart

Shetwtfuw. Luton. CMidae IM.

AW AYS: Manchester Unfed, NcW Ccurty.
Bngrton. Swansea. Oewft

HOMES:
Neacasfe,
dfl. “

Ewrion, Baratov. Lacestoi
Wotwe, Futarn, Reedfog, Ca

, HtaiSan. Dumtanan. Gy*.

ODDS: Homes:

Fteedtagi

Awayc Manchester Utd. Brighsxi
Goa Draws: Luton, Dundee Lfed. Ra

■is.

□ Vince Wright

FOOTBALL

NEVILLE OV9UEN COMBINATION:
Luton 1. TotanhamA.

SCHOOLS MATCHES: CMgrroU 4. Afteyn s
3; Forest *. Eton T. Shrewsbury 1.
Wofitagoorough 0.

AMERICAN FOOTBALL

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (NRJ:

Washington Redsfcna 24, Aftanta FNoons

17; DalE Ccwboys 34. New York Glams
28: Kansas Oty Ctfefe 26. Seattle

Seehawks 7: CJnchmati Bangle 24, Uw

Angelas Raiders 21 (OT); Denver Broncos

21, San Diego Ctaigere 13: Los Angelas

Rems 14. New England Paroocs 0, Houston

Oilers 20, kxtanapote Coils 10. Pittsburgh

Santera 27, New York Jeta 10: Buflalo Bite

34, Soi Francisco 49ers 31; New Orteene

Sores 28, Chicago Bears 6: Tfenpa Bay

Buccaneers 31. Green Bay Packers 3;

DetreS Lions 31. tfrmowia V Mngs 17;

Phladatohla Eratea 31, Pnoenta CanSnals

1*.

BASEBALL

NATIONAL LEAGUE: Philadelphia Phles
6. FVtsfcunfi Ptraies 3; Montreal bto&S 7.

New Ycrk Mao 5. Atlarta Braves 9. Hcxaton
Astros 2: San Diego Pactas 3, Cincinnati
Reds l; San Francisco Giants 7. Lne
Angeles Dodgers 3: St Louis Catfinata 10.
CtwagoCifeB3

EastdMaton

W L Pet GB

Pttsftufgh Prates -82 ao sn —

Mortrsa Expos 79 63 556 3

StlojlsCartflnete. 71 69 507 10

CtfeenoCuta 70 71 .4S71U*

NMYorkMets 63 78 .48218%

PhfladelphiB Ptdlles.. 58 82 414 £3
WesttSvision

ABarea Breves 87 65 613 -

CtadnraU Rata 77 66 638 tots-

San Dergo Padres...... 7S X 63S 11

Houston Astros 67 76 .46920*

SanFnnfeco Giants. 64 70 44023V,
Los Angeles Dodgers. 57 86 .39930*

AMSUCAN LEAGUE: Toronto Blue Jays 7,

Tacao Rangers Z Mtaoutoe Brewers 3.
BaWmora OncteB 1; "

Oakland Atffetlcs 3.

Seattle Mariners 1; urmesou Twna 6.
CaBtorraa Angets Z Kansas Cny Royals 3.
New York Yankees 0: Detroit Ttaers 7.
Boston Rad Soft 2. Ctevetand rctens Z
Chteago Whfle Sm i.

EastrMsion

Toronto Blue J»8- .. 64 GO .583 —

Batornore Onoiss 78 64 .549 5

Ifewautoe Brewers... 77 65 542 G

New York Yankees 69 74 483 14»

Cleveland Indians 67 75 .472 16

DatrolTtaare 67 77 .465 17

Boston RBdSoc.... 65 77 458 18
WestdfvMon

Oakland ABfetrCS- .B6 S7 601 —
Mmcsota Twins .„ .. 80 63 SBB 6
“■ ,WrtteS«- 76 67 52810*
ffiKMlterwars - 70 76 .479 17V>
MMn/rtaS. - 64 79 .448 22
Kansas Coy Royals . S3 79 .444 22ftr
Seattle Mannas 56 88 -38B301*

BOWLS

CROYDON: -Home Courdes stages
chenvionahfo: Ouartar-finals: G Harring-
ton K&crcn 01 P Vandepeer (Kern, 21-18:
P Vanwacopoutot (Surrey. itadsO-bi R
Gaskins (Buckinghamshire), 21-19, 6 Harw-
Jdns (Surrey) W P Ganday (Sresse*), 21 -20: J
Ford (Berkshire) W S Gee (MiddlSKnt). 21-
18 Semi-finals: Vamvacopootos bl Har-
rington. 21-18: Ford bl Hafedns. 21-9
Ftaat vamwaDOpoJo3 bl Ford, 21-18
WELLINGTON: South WeetBm Counties
----- M Read
cbday (Wtaa
PNre: P

Georgs arto M Potmese (Portrtneor. Com-
wam & R Prtvett and E Mwtem (Weymoufri.
Dorset). 24-8 Tifotet: A FteaO. S Troscori

and t

Bray (Sienalees. Cornwall bl J
K T'/ihcoa and k PtvOpa iCfty ol

Fours: 5

Loarlng,

Exeter). 21-20 (alter eoia
(fee. A Panel. T Peritfw. and I
(Bath. Somerset) bl T Sergeant, G Reed. N
Byden and D Gamed (Weymouth, Doreei).

18-ia

PLYMOUTH: Western Morning News
Part: Semi-finals: H Langley and J
Jefferies (N&taaa) a A O'Neil and G
Sanders (Watc. Blrtre-Beeme. Newton
Abbot]. 20-9. D Drew and K Rtahards
ts A Heame and L Tirhea*
f), 26-12. FTnel: Drew and
. bt Langley and Jefteries. 27-14

CYCLING

TOUR DE L'AVEftflR, Pranw: 5Wh
169km: 1. L Van Bon (Hoi). 3rt 52mn
56GCC. 2. L Bfodurd IFrj. same: 3. M
Saw (Bell, same British: 23, A Paris 31
26sec; 38. M McKay. 26. 56. J
Ctarieswonh. 26. 60, D Cook, 26. B5. C
Hervy (Ira). 26 Overall: I.HGureHFrJ- 19hr
SSrran 54 ear. 2. M Wua (Ger) at Irrtn
ISeec. 3. J+ Dof-/a (Ft) a 1.32.

GOLF

Open:

OAKVILLE, Ontario; Canarian
Leading final scores (US unless
280: (aNorman |AuSl. 73, 66, 71. 70.
Uetzta, 71, 84. 73. TilNarman wm n
second extra Dote) 20l:N Price (Zm), 68,
70. 73, 60. 282: J Sritfetar. 70. 74, 71. 67: J
DEtekta. 71. 71. 71.69; C P®ft 67, 74. 71.
70. 283; K Oeerwata. 73, 71 . 71. 68. 284: 0
Fresl (SA). 71. 70. 73. 70. MWtotM. 76. 66.
71. n: D Pwfey. 87. 73, 73. 71; F Couples.
71. 69. 71. 73. a5: J DNy. 72, 71, 71. 71; M
O'Meara. 72. 73. 68, 72: f Ourtl, 68, 7Z 72.
73 2B6: C Cooper, 72. 74, 72. 66: P
Aanger. 71. 73. 7a 72. C Strange, 73. 69,
70. T4

PORTLAND, Oregon. LPGA Chfirtipfoft-

ertp: Leering find scores (US ufttoss
caed) 209: N I

LopeM70.70,6B.JCraft«

(Ausi. 64. 73. 72 (Lops: won al 2nd extra

note) 210: J Stephenson (Aus). 72. 72. 66.
T Beneft. 66. 69. 75 211: D Andre*

krews. 72.

71. 68. C Keggr 70. 71. 70: M Fpgueras-
- 68.72. 71.r “

Dotii rsp). 68. 72. 71. 213: M McGfim. 72.
72 69 J Dickinson. 71. 70. 72. 214: H
Attadsson [Swei. 74. 72, 6ft C HB. 71. 74.
®. J Gtoson, 69. 74. 71; R Jmes. 70. 72
75 M Fautconer 71. 70. 73: M Mslon. 69.
72 73. British: 216: K Ctavres. 63, 75. 72

POWER BOATING

MILAN: World formula one, intend drouto
1, S Kenan kSB) & speed I45)gdi. 9 pis; 2
J HB (08). 6. 3. A Anderson ISw). 4; 4, T
tahitewa (Japan), 3 OveraB: 1. Ksnon, 22

2. h**awa.'2l;"3. F Bocca (It). 19 4, G

— I). 15

Cappeto (It). P Duggan (GB).

MOTOR RALLYING

PARtS-MOSCOW-PHKJNG RALLY: Mritfi
stem: 1 . P Larague (Ft). Otroea 3-.50.13: 2.
E Weber (Gar). Mitsubisrt, 257.45: a
Shthcojka (Japan). MBsiAfehi, 4D011: 4.
B SaOy (H), Mitsubishi, 4 04 02. 5. B
Wtektegard (See), Careen. 4: 1608
STAGES RALLIES: UpWentag stages

Sr U l6m»} t ^sec l ^R'® EotTO.
2:l6i25: 3. G Howard (Daman). 21620.
Dees group stages ISussex): 1. P Sansom
(Fort Escort). 37.15: 2 P King (Fort
Escort), 39.45. 3. M Welch (Ford

40:01 Solent stages (H a mpshire) 1. C
uo BM), 6301; Z D Wlihas

Fane (MG Metre •

Qftuiftalf Chewta), 53 S3: 3. M l-kmphiy
iFtover Vffes&e), 54:15. Rustlcana
(Mw-wates): 1, P Lovendge (Morts Mnfl.
B8J5 penawes. 2. B Beales (VW Beeriej.
B85. 3. D Dunlop (Austin ABO).

110.1 Everyhope stages (County Durham):
1, S Fetch (Sierra Cosworthj. 5244. 2 J
Robson [Sierra Cosworth). 55:16. 3. T
Thompson (VaurheH Chewtie), 56.12
HLL CLIMB: PrtfeuS PSWifiiim RAC
champion sh ip: Round 15 (Wiscombe.
Devon) 1. M Colton (Rcmenl. 41 22 secs:
2 R Lane (fflbeam). 41.42 3, R Brown
(Pflbeaml. 41.45 Chantafonshto: equal 1.
Lane end D Grace. 95pfc. 3. Conor. 82.

RUGBY UNION

SCHOOLS MATCHES: Bedford 12 Bed-
ford Modem 3. Bishop 1/658/5 3, Salfiufl
48. Bromgrove 7. Dean Ctose 6. Ganpton
7, Coopers Coburn 22: Canlord 13.
DcMnscte 6. Chatham Hou9e GS 15.
Rochester Math 11; Chearie Hiime 9,
Kind's. MacctosflNd 72 Ctwltertiflm 2Z
Waiwtck o. CNstohum ana Skfcup 6. St
Paws 27, Orta s. Brecon 10. King's.
Worcegw 0. Chna's Hospital 26. RelgaK
GS 30; Churcher's 0, Ktaq Edward V).
Sourampion22,Cafton32,0 , dC9tiorBn8
8: Colcheter RGS 5. Si Joseph's (pewfch 42
Code's 17, Darriort ge 7; Cotston's U.
Owen ETeabeth, Bristol 5, Doer 56, Si
Auguames 0: Durham 64, Gtenamona 0:
Eton 16, Epmm 14; Greshem's 5. Oatoam
28; Upperhodne GS 7. Doncaaer Hail
Cross 19. Kely 73. West Buctaana i.
King's, Rochester 10, Old Boys 24; ktag'G,
Taunton 19. ODA XV 20; Langtoy Farit 7,
Emanuel 30. Lnerpnoi College 13, Kirn
Etteart VII, Lytham 36; London Oratory 2^,
Enfield 0: Lord Wanteworti's 5, Cheheswr

HS 20. Loughborough GS 8. Stanford-?:
ManchedaGS 12 SI Edward's Colege 32

Marina 26. Redncd, 0: Merchant Taytcre 5.
Dtivwa>34: Monttor Combe 22 Otf Boys
46: Monmoidh 31, Martxjroudh H: N«-
itagham HS 23. WebeOk 6; Old Stanford
HKta«al5. AdariB GS 18: Queen Efizebefo,
Bama 17, Hictan 13. Queen Sizabah GS,
Wakefield li. Hymas 12: Pangtxwme as,
Datrtsey's 3; PortsntaUth GS 19. Havant

Cons 6; RossaB 14. Deratone 6; RGS Hgh

Wycontoe 8. Hampton 5: RGS Woreeaer

10. Kng Edward's. Btrmuigham 15:
Sevenfera 5, King's. Cartotiny 10: St

Bartholomew's. Newbuy 3. Desborough

15: St Bees 18. Gtggtownck 16. Si John's.

Souttisee 7. Judd 12; Sherbome 54, Bishop

Wordsworth 0. Stanner’s 12 Maldaone GS

15; 9od(port GS 7, Old StoCkporttans 3.

Stowe 7. Abingdon 3: The Leys 35. Cuifort
17; Ttffln 10. RGS GuBdtart 11: Trart 20.

Oundte 12 UCS 15. Bancrofln 15: Watford

GS 14. BoiWiamsiBd 27: WaBlngton (Ban-

Sh*e) 3. Si dave's 19; WeJfcigion perk-
Ghn>) 16. Hartaybivy 3; WeNngton
(Somerset) 3. Prior Park 12: Whdprfr 25.
Hursiptorpotnt 17: WraUn 14, Ryrtal 20

SHOOTING

1, N Baa 245 31, 2 J
23. 1 C Oehenson. 242 25.
Long range: _1. Ball. 188 lft_2._H watcon.

Short range:
AdsheatL 245.

Long range: 1, Ban. itreierz, Mwarcon.
187.18. 3. P Drummy, 187.16. Grand
agoegala: 1. Bail. 433 SO. Top tyre: P

„ .. 41326. 300 and liSgyito: 1.
Adaheal 103.10. ?, Ball 100.13. Middle
aggregate: 1, J Tuck, 135.16
BiSLEY: City RC open championship: l.A

le Cheminaril (Jer). 436 48: 2. N Bail (RN).
433m 3. Mrs S le -

Cherwant (Jersey I.
433 46. Fremenlte Trooby (1.000 yds): l.
M Wood. 70J.2AleQiernkiem.ea6.3.P
CiAnae, 69 S Cortfeh Cup ^00): 1 . Baft.
74.10; 2 W Haag. 73 13. 3. E Biles, 73 10
Barker Prize (900): 1. C Dfckanson, 50.7; 2
K Chart, 40.& 3. M WngOy. 4g 8

SNOOKER

BLACKPOOL: Asian Op®: Second
J Pnnce

roundh. S Storey (Engl bt J

(Eng).

(N Ire). 5-
Lee

fEro) bT^Chaperon (Cm). 5-1. P Davies
(Wales) bt S Mazracts (Eng). 5-P. P Tamer
(Eng| bt B West (Eng). 5-1 ; B Golan (Can)
U M Gtoson (Scot), 5-2 S Morris (Eng) tt K
Stevens (Can), 5-0, J Ferguson (End) bt D
Clarke- (Eng), 5-3, D Harold (EngT bt S
Newbury (Wales), 5-1; A HamSon (Eng) a
M Pnca (Eng). 5-3; D Rnbow (Eng) E M
Medeod (ScoU 5-4, J Campbefl(Au9) tu A

" IWNGfcen

i U L Dodd

BotoOfei (Eng), S-4;SA*|
). £-3: J W

Woorinm

1.&4.

BLACKPOOL Brifiah
rouid: B Gofian (Can) b» 5
1: A O'Comor (Ire) btJ'
2 W King (Aus)

Shaw -

(tag (Aus) M B Chaperon (Cm). 5-2T

(&g) bl W Jones (Waft. 5-2: J Higgins

(Seen) bt J Woo (Ena). 5-2 N Tenv (Eng) bt
J Birch (Bra). 5-1. J Mlcrte (Era) bt J Read
(Erg). 54? A Hamiton (Engl bt J

(Ire). 5-0: E

Maaods (Eri|^L5-1; D Fmbrae (Eng) bt 9

Kenny (Eng),

(ire) bt S

SWIMMING

CRYSTAL PALACE: NatktaN intar-laague
mx 1, Portsmouth Northern, 304pto, 2
Cityol Leeds, 288. 3, Ctupong Norton, 237.
4. Manchester Unfed Salford, 227; 5.
Beckenham, 226; 6, Norwich
191, T. Parry Beeches. 155. 8.

Hoe. 155

l—iirinw ~”~ r T7nr i — i

|

MHSm

j-

; tOTAVS FIXTURES

FOOTBALL
730 untesa stared

European Cup-Winners’ Cup
First round, first legs

Airdne v Sparta Prague

Glertavon v Antwerp

UefaCup

First round, first legs

Cologne v Celle (5.0)

Hibernian v Anderlechi (7.0)

Premier League

Blackburn v Everton

(all ticket. 7 45)

Barclays League
First division

Bnsloi City v West Ham (7.451

Oxford Utd v Cambridge Utd (7.45) ..

Pelerborough v Milhvafl

Second division

Blackpool v Bournemouth

Bolton v West Bromwich

Bradford C v Stockport

Burnley v Port Vale

Chester v Mansfield

Exeter v Wigan

Fulham V Swansea

Hartlepool v Leyton Orient

Huddersfield v Plymouth

Hull v Preston

Third division

Bamet v Northampton f7.45)

Chesterfield v Crewe

Doncaster v Colchester

Halifax v Dartngton

Rochdale v Gttngham

Shrewsbury v Scarborough

Torquay v Wrexham

Walsal v Bay (7.45)

Yotk v Hereford

Anglo- Italian Cup

Praiminary round

Charlton v Portsmouth {7.45}

Notts County v Barnsley (7.45)

Sunderland v Bummgham (7.45)

Tranmere v Wolverhamp to n W

Waticjd v Luton (7.45)

GM VauxhaJI Conference

Bath v Woking

Bromsgrove v Macclesfield

Runcorn w Northwich (7.45) .. . .

TeMofd v Kettenng

WitionvStaiybfldge

Wycombe v Ybovh (7.45)

POSTPONED. Stafford v KkJdefmmaef.
FA CUP. First quafltyina round, replays:
Wbrtangton v Ea&rgron Coriety. Buxton v
Soihpon: Nanrmch v Ccngtercri Stafford
Rangers v Afttwon: Lncom v FrtcMey
Athletic, Stratford v Raunds, Tamwonh v
Hednasloid; Gorieeton v Hartagw New-
morirei v THbory. Gmy3 Alhtetlc v Ch6)m&-
tort, Bflericay v Dagemm and ReriiridgK
Lhtmdge v Raynors Lane; Sough v
Corintnon Cesuae, Favwshem v Asrtoro;
Dourer v Tontridga, Wfonhing v Egham;
Cortntfuan v Margate; Mereenhead v
Buckingham; Bnsrei Manor Farm v
Lymm^cvi: Crtettenham v Watalcwfe

DIADORA LEAGUE: Prtmlor division:
Hayes v Harrow. Kingstonian v
Basnfjstoke. Marlow v DiiiMch: Suurws v
Hendon: Yeadng v Sunon Unfed. Post-
poned: Grays v Sisvenage Borough First
rivision: Aveloy v Heybndge SwifE. Bariarw
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Driving ambition that sparked Williams split

Frank Williams
Bom: April 16. 1942, Liverpool.
Wife: Virginia. Children: three.
Home: Newbury. Formula One
record: first race, Argentina,
1975: world constructors’
championship. I960, 1961,

1986. 1987. He has been
paralysed from the shoulders
down since a car crash in 1986.
He was created a CBE in 1987.

NIGEL Mansell's intention
to retire from Formula One
motor racing, just four weeks
after he had secured the world
championship, has provided
a sad and distasteful ending
to what should have been, the
most pleasurable of the six
seasons he has spent driving
for Frank Williams's team.
But perhaps it was inevitable.

The plain fact is that, much
as Mansell and Williams
have needed each other to fuel
their respective ambitions,
and despite their mutual ad-
miration for each other’s pro-
fessional achievements, as
people they have barely toler-
ated each other.

Long ago, Williams said
that while Mansell was “mag-
ic" in a racing car, he was “a
pain in the backside” out of it
while Mansell has never for-
given Williams for what he
felt to be his unsympathetic
reaction to the back-wrench-
ing practice accident in Japan

which effectively ended
Mansell's 1987 champion-
ship challenge.

Formula One is no environ-
ment for the faint-hearted. If
you have a burning ambition
not only to win but also to
keep on winning — ambitions
in which Mansell and Wil-
liams have always been firmly
united — you have to bring to
the Job some fairly uncompro-
mising qualities.

In addition to performing
the mechanics of your task at
least as well as anybody else, it
helps to be sett-centred, cun-
ning, manipulative, oppor-
tunistic and devoid of
sentiment It is in the Last of
these that Mansell, for aD his
determination and aggres-
sion on the' track, has what, at
the pinnacle of Formula One,
has to be considered a weak-
ness: he has a soft spot

How else could he become
so emotionally affected in
moments of success or disap-

John Blunsden on the conflict between Nigel
Mansell, the Formula One world champion,
and the Frank Williams racing team

pointment? Why, when he is
, involved in contractual mat-
ters. should he believe that
fair play and reasonableness
will prevail over all else?

Williams did not reach the
highest echelons of motor
racing through being over-
concerned with the niceties.
When he entered the sport be
brought with him little more
than a burning passion for it,

skin at wheeling and dealing,
and the ability to extricate
himself from, one financial
crisis after another.

Mansell, too, climbed the
racing ladder the hard way,
hurting himself physically
and suffering financial strains
before he was able to prove his

worth and attract backing.
Mansell’s progression into
Formula One; through the
Lotus team, solved his finan-
cial problems but not his
personal ones: his incessant
moan that, if only be could be
given the right tools he could
get the job done, won him few
friends in the Lotus pit area.
After the death of Colin
Chapman, be became under-
valued by the team's new
management hence his move
ro Williams in 1985-
Frank Williams knew what
he was taking on — a poten-
tial race-winner, and that was
all that mattered. In 1992
and beyond, it is still all that
matters, just as for a driver all
that matters is to be driving

foe best car. That is why
ManselL Ayrton Senna and
Alain Prost would all like to
be leading foe Williams team
next year — note the word
leading”. This has been foe
seed of the recent discontent

Having foe best car in

1992, arai with a reasonable
expectancy of still having it in

1 993, Williams has been in a
strong negotiating petition.
This makes it seem all the
more remarkable — and out
of character — that as long
ago as last February he
should have allowed the tem-
porarily out-of-work Prost to
dictate terms fora 1 993 drive,
which among other demands
expressly excluded Senna
from foe other car.

This suggests that Williams
was confident that Mansell
would sign on again, on
whatever terms were offered
to him. to drive alongside
Prost If so, it was a consider-
able misjudgment. ManselL

who had found Prost to be
such a disruptive influence
during their time together
with Ferrari, eventually con-
vinced himself that he could
live with the Frenchman a
second time around, but the
inconvenience of doing so
would cost Williams dearly.

As the defending champi-
on, Mansell asked for a lot of
money and a tot of fringe
benefits. After a lot of hard
bargaining, a deal was even-
tually struck last month, or so
he thought. But Senna’s offer
to drive, if not for nothing
than for a lot less money
caused Williams to move the
financial goalposts.

This hurt ManselL Perhaps
for foe first time, he now
knows that drivers are bought
for whai they can do tomor-
row, not for what they accom-
plished yesterday and today.
The ethics of this may be
debatable, but it is a fact of
Formula One life.

American rimiit lures worid champion

Mansell poised
to join top
Indy Car team

From Andrew Longmore in new york and Norman Howell in monza

N IGEL ManselL the Formula
One worid motor racing
champion, could sign this
week for the Newman-Haas
Indy Car team.

Mansell, the British driver
who startled the sport when he
announced on Sunday that he
was quitting the Williams
team and retiring from For-
mula One. has been talking
with Cart Haas, partner with
the actor Paul Newman in the
Newman-Haas team.

Haas said yesterday from
his headquarters at Lincoln-
shire. Illinois: “Nigel and I
have known each other a tong
time and I have had conversa-
tions with him about the
possibility of his driving for us.
He has said he wants to look at
Indy Car racing and. if you
put two and two together,
there aren't many teams he
could be talking to.

“We would be very excited
about his joining foe team and
it wurld be good for motor
raring over here as well. But I
would add that I have been

talking to 25 different driv-
ers.” But, Haas added, his
talks with Mansell were in
“quite a different category"
from foe rest

One of the “25 different
drivers” is Martin Brundle,
who has had experience of
American racing with Jaguar
in foe spoils car champion-
ship. Brundle has been
dropped by Benetton after an
outstanding season in Formu-
la One,

There are firm reports that
Mansell has offered at least
$4.5 million to drive for New-
man-Haas; Mansell has a
home in Florida and is attract-
ed by the American way of life
and foe challenge of raring on
Indy-style oval stadium tracks
as well as street circuits,

Haas is in no doubt that,
despite Mansell’s lack of expe-
rience of American tracks, he
would have no trouble follow-
ing foe path set by another
Formula One world champi-
on. Emerson Fittipaldi, who
was highly successful in Indy

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Car racing. “ Mansell is a great
racing driver and great raring
drivers can race on anything,
anywhere," Haas said.

Among other British drivers
who have made brief but
triumphant forays across the
Atlantic are Jim Clark and
Graham Hill, both of whom
won the Indianapolis 500.

In the statement he read out
on Sunday, Mansell was care-
ful to point out that he was
retiring only from Formula
One and mentioned Indy
Cans as a viable alternative. In
foe Indy Car fraternity, it is felt
that if Mansell turns down foe
Newman-Haas offer, then the
drive will go to Al Unser Jr,
who only this year at
Silverstone expressed his
desire to move to Formula
One.

At the Williams team’s
headquarters at DidcoL the
defences have gone up against
foe onslaught of criticism from
the public and foe press; all
calls were diverted to the
company which handles its
public relations. This same
company has advised Wfl-
liams not to call a press
conference but to put out a
statement instead..

Williams, whether in this
statement or soon after, will
have to clarify the positions of
Alain Prost, who is believed to
have reached an agreement
with foe team some time ago.
and of Ayrton Senna, who has
said that he will drive for
nothing for the world champi-
on team.

There is some dispute on
whether Prost has a clause in
his contract that excludes Sen-
na. but the point is that

immediately after the Portu-
guese grand prix, in two

weeks' time, the new 1993
cars will begin testing and
Williams will have to put

someone in that car in

Portugal

Serious contenders: Eubank and Thornton meet yesterday before their bout in Glasgow on Saturday

Eubank vows to feed off derision

THE inner pain that Chris
Eubank stiD feels from the
“unfair” treatment he has
been given by press men in
search of a line wiD be trans-
ferred to Tony Thornton, of
New Jersey, when the World
Boxing Organisation super-
middleweight champion de-
fends his tide in Glasgow on
Saturday.

Eubank was in no mood to
disperse foe usual platitudes
of boxing press conferences in
Glasgow yesterday. When
asked what he would do if
booed when he came into foe
ring, he said, “Please. I will
turn foe energy of foe public
on to my opponent"

Clearly Eubank is still
smarting from the criticisms
which he suffered after his
poor showing in Portugal,

where his third defence,
against Ron Essett, was Iar
baled the Snore on the Shore,
and clout with' nowL He
refused to take any blame and
said it was all the fault of
Essett, who was “a profession-
al coward, and had not come
to fight for foe title".

At one point it was the end
of the conference when Tom-
my G Amour, the Scottish co-
promoter of Saturday's show,
said foe good of foe Scots
would rob off on him. Eubank
winced and told Gilmour “I
didn't like what you said. You
are saying goodness rubs off
on me. I am a good man. I
have to put you straight.”

little wonder that Thorn-
ton, aged 33, remained suit-
ably respectful throughout the
conference. Thornton is the

No. 3 challenger but was
moved up to No. I after Tim
Littles, foe No. 1 , dropped out
through injury, and Nigel
Benn. foe No 2. derided to go
for the Worid Boxing Council
title

Thornton, who works for
the post office in Belmar, New
Jersey, is known as the punch-
ing postman with a firet-dass
delivery. He has had a bone
from his hip grafted on to his
right hand after suffering an
injury in a bout in Atlantic
City. “I could not even hold a
bar of soap,” he said.

“But ft is all right now. The
operation was agony. I was in
a cast for seven weeks and I
feared foe hand might go
again. But I have come so far
to get this fight that 1 won’t be
able to hold back."

Thornton has watched four
fights of Eubank on videotape:
against Essett, John Jarvis,
Sugar Boy Malinga and
Michael Watson. “He has a
real weird style,” was Thorn-
ton’s observation- “But there’s
nothing new under the sun."

Thornton said that his
rounds as a postman kept him
in good shape. “Climbing
stairs, dogs, a 40-hour week”

He promised that he would
return to Scotland to defend
the tide against Benn. To
which Eubank replied: “I am
a professional fighter. You are
a postman. You wiD go back to
being a postman."

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Ray Rayner, of Australia, for
the vacant Commonwealth
featherweight tide in Sunder-
land on October 7.

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Short finalises transfer details

By Louise Taylor

CRAIG Short spent yesterday
deep in conversation with
Kenny Dalglish a! Ewood
Park, Blackburn, where he
finalised details of a £2.7
million transfer from Nods
County, which should be com-
pleted today.

It will make Short, 24, foe
subject of a protracted transfer
tussle involving Blackburn
Rovers and Derby County,
Britain’s most expensive de-
fender, a distinction he takes
over from Keith Curie, who
cost Manchester City £2.5
million last year.

Dalglish, who will boost his
spending at Blackburn to dose
on £14 million in less than a
year as manager yesterday
said: M 1 do not expect the
transfer to go through tonight,
but ft should do in the
morning.”

Derek Pavis, the Notts
County chairman, said: “We
have agreed a fee and it is up
to Craig." Short, who began
his career with Scarborough,

is keen to return north. “Black-
burn is only 90 minutes drive
from my parents in Pickering.
North Yorkshire where ray
wife's family also are and we
both want to move north,” he
said.

“It will also be special to
work with someone like Ken-
ny Dalglish, play alongside
some of the people at Black-
burn like Alan Shearer and
Stuart Ripley and be in the
Premier League.

“I have already talked to
Derby and they made me a
simply superb offer, but in my
heart of hearts 1 wanted to join
Blackburn.”

There is no question that
Short who is six foot is one of
the more commanding central
defenders around, but as he
said: "It is an awful lot of
money to pay for someone
who has only played 40-odd
first division games in Notts
County's relegation team last
season. I am a good stopper
but my distribution could be
unproved."

Naturally modest he may

be. but Short would be entitled
about to brag about consider-
able aerial anility, sureness in
foe tackle and an increasing
tendency to play the ball out of
defence, pushing up to sup-
port his attack when circum-
stances permit

“I've been encouraged to
push forward a bit more this
season and that aspect of my
game is improving,” he said.

Notts County had previous-
ly rejected two £2.5 millian
offers from both Derby and
Blackburn for Short, wanting
to hold out for a £3 million
move, but when the player, not
unreasonably, became upset
at such a demand Pavis
agreed Short could go for a
compromise £2.7 million.

With Kevin Moran now 36
and Colin Hendry sometimes
suspect in central defence,
Blackburn are in need. of
Short’s services. Dalglish,
though, has been an admirer
of Snort for some years, watch-
ing him on regular occasions.
It is believed Dalglish wanted
to buy him when he was

manager of Liverpool, but foe
Anfield board refused to sanc-
tion the move.

Notts County have replaced
him with the promising David
Robinson, a £300,000 acquisi-
tion from Peterborough
United.

Chelsea kre in the market
for a new goalkeeper after
Dave Beasant conceded two
soft goals in Saturday's 3-2
defeat at home to Norwich.
Ian Porterfield, the Chelsea
manager. laid the blame at
Beasanfs door and with Kevin
Hitchcock injured, he is look-
ing to recruit another goal-
keeper this week.

Porterfield yesterday said:
“Beasant is a bag of nerves.
He made a few blunders last
season but 1 decided to back
him. But after a mistake he
made at Liverpool and foe two
against Norwich we reached
the end of foe road. Now we
must find a replacement

“Beasant has made too
many mistakes but I want to
make it dear l think foe worid
of him as a person. "

McManaman faces
fight for fitness

STEVE McManaman is
struggling to shake off a back
injury in time for Liverpool’s
European Cup-Winners’ Cup
tie against Apollon Limassol
at Anfield tomorrow.

The England under-2 1
winger missed foe Premier
League defeat at Sheffield
United on Saturday and his
prospects of recovery do not
look good.

The Liverpool manager
Graeme Souness is asking his
players not to take the Cypriots
lightly. "This dub has never
been guilty of underestimat-
ing anybody and I hope we’re
not about to start” he said.

Sheffield Wednesday, back
in Europe for the first time in
28 years, look likely to retain
their defender. Paul
Warfaurst, as a makeshift for-
ward for the first leg of the
Uefa Cup tie against Spore
Luxembourg at Hillsborough.
The former England Under-
2 1 centre half, who scored his
first goal for the dub in the 2-1

win at Nottingham Forest on
Saturday, said: "WeVe got a
few problems and everybody
has got to play where the
manager wants them to."

Wednesday are already
without David Hirst, who has
an ankle injury, and Mark
Bright, their El million sign-
ing from Ciystal Palace, is
ineligible until the quarter-
final stage. But they hope that
Chris Waddle will overcome a
thigh knock that led to his
substitution against Forest
Nigel Pearson, who missed
tital match with a hamstring
strain, is rated doubtful.

A severe chest infection may
force Paul Walsh into a long
lay-off. The Portsmouth for-
ward, who spent a night in
hospital had a temperature of
104, He has faringitis — an
affection which affects the
upper chest

Chariton Athletic have
signed John Robinson, the
Brighton winger, with foe fee
to be decided by a tribunal.

53 1 I

Nigel Mansell

Bom: August 8, 1953, Upton-
on -Severn. Wife: Rosanna.
Children: Chloe fieri), Leo
(seven), Greg (louri- Homes:
Isle of Man. Florida Portugal.
Formula One record: first race.
Austria, 1980; 178 starts, 29
wins; world champion, 1992;
runner-up, 1986. 19o7. 1991 . He
was created an OBE last year.

England
callup
Snow to
squad

By David Hands

RUGBY CORRESPONDENT

SNOW in winter seems an
obvious conclusion but the
progress being made by Alex
Snow this season has con-
firmed the tributes he won
during the summer. The
young lock was named yester-
day in foe England senior
training squad to meet on
September 26 and 27.

During his university days
at St Andrews. Snow, 23.
played chib rugby for Heriof s
FP. appeared for Scottish Stu-
dents. but declined an invita-
tion to play for the Scotland B
side. He formed part of an
impressive England Students
pack during their worid cup in
Ita^y in July and has now
joined Harlequins.

He has already made one
fleeting appearance in an
England shirt, in foe final of
the Harlequin Sevens,
though, at 6ft 7in and 1 7si
3tb, he may not be begging for
a place in the team to repre-
sent England in foe Dubai
Sevens in November, now
part of the Rugby Football
Union's preparations for foe
Worid Cup Sevens in April.

The training squad includes
neither Ian Hunter, the
Northampton fullback who
had a cartDege operation on
Saturday, nor Neil Back, the
Leicester flanker whose dam-
aged shoulder will not let him
play until October 3. Howev-
er, there are recalls for three
older retainers: John Buckton,
Andy Robinson and Mike
Teague, illustrating once more
the depth of talent available to
the selectors.

“The indications are we
shall be selecting from virtual-
ly foe same squad as last year"
Geoff Cooke, foe team man-
ager said.

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Nigella Lawson
considers the
feminist debate so far

life & Tones, page 1

TALES FROM

THE CITY

New York cabbie
Iva Pekarkova finds
a story in every fare

life & Times, page 5

FLIGHT OF

FANCY

Win a pair of tickets
to a mystery US
destination

life & Times, page 4

Mrs Mellor
offers
support

Judith Mellor (below), the
wife of David Mellor, the
heritage secretary, yester-
day went to the High Court
to support her friend Mona
Bauwens in her libel acdon
against The People news-
paper. She said: “I am just
supporting my friend
Mona. I planned to come
here today anyway.”

Mrs Mellor was not
called upon to give evidence
but she heard that her

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husband has been subpoe-
naed and may be obliged to
appear.

She also heard Mrs
Bauwens tell the juiy that
she had been made physi-
cally sick by the newspaper
coverage of the case con-
cerning the Mellor family’s
holiday with her at her
rented vdDa in MarbeUa
during the Gulf warPage 3

Vaccine alert

Studies by doctors in Not-
tingham led to the with-
drawal of two brands of
vaccine to prevent rubella,
measles and mumps in
children, after they found
links to a mild form of viral
meningitis. But doctors
fear the alternative MMR-
11 vaccine may not be as
effective.

Dr Aldan Macfaitane,
director of public health at
Oxford Health Authority,
said only 50 reports of viral
meningitis had occurred in
more than four million
children treated since the
MMR vaccines were intro-
duced in 1988 P»ge5

Flood stand-by

Six hundred thousand
people in the city of Sukkur
in Pakistan’s Sind prov-
ince, where severe flooding
is expected tomorrow, have
been put on stand-by for
evacuation. The govern-
ment has rescued half a
million people. Page 13

Pit doses

British Coal is to dose a
coal pit near Stoke-on-
Trent. one of the most
modem in the country but
still which is losing E20
million a year, with the loss
of 1,400 jobs Page 19

Malik tops

Salim Malik and Courtney
Walsh topped, respectively,
the batting and bowling
averages for the first-class
cricket season which fin-
ished yesterday. — Page 30

Faldo rated

Mitchell Platts, golf corres-
pondent, rates Nick Faldo
the most complete player
since the legendary Ben
Hogan 3 *

Major calls off Spanish
trip as pound plunges

by Philip Webster. George Swell and tom Walker

MOUNTING economic
and political difficulties
crowded in on the govern-
ment last night as sterling
fell to its lowest dose
against the mark since
joining the European ex-
change-rate mechanism
and John Major called off
a long-standing visit to
Spain.

A miserable day for the
pound and shares, wiping out
the gains that had followed
the cut in German interest
'rates on Monday, came after
the prime minister postponed
his trip to Expo 92 in Seville
at less than 24 hours’ notice,
deciding that he could not
afford to leave the country in
the present dimate .

Sterling came to within
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3.19 pfennings during the

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than £9.5 billion was wiped
off share prices and the FT-
SE 100 index fell 52.1 points
to dose at 2,370.

City fears were raised last
night that the government
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position within the ERM. Mr
Major and Norman Lament,
the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer. have committed them-
selves to maintaining ster-
ling’s parity with the mark
and senior Whitehall sources
insist thai the prospect of a
devaluation is "zero".

The Bank of England must
use its reserves to intervene if
sterling falls to DM2.7780. If
intervention fails, interest
rates must be raised. The
final option is realignment
within the ERM. The govern-
ment has repeatedly ruled our
devaluation — so if such a
decision had to be taken, it
could make Mr Lamonfs
position untenable at the
Treasury and critically jeo-
pardise Mr Major's own
standing.

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the lira struggled yesterday

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UK details Bosnia troops

as foreign exchange dealers
bought German marks
ahead of the French referen-
dum on the Maastricht treaty
on Sunday. Ministers will be
anxiously watching the mar-
kets this morning. The latest
retail sales and public bor-
rowing figures today, and the
unemployment figures to-
morrow, are unlikely to give
them much cheer.

Dealers detected no appar-
ent intervention by the Bank
of England yesterday to sup-
port the pound but thismay
have been because the pound
did not actually trade at its
ERM floor.

Downing Street insisted
that the sudden cancellation
of Mr Major’s two-day trip
was not connected with the
vulnerability of sterling. It
said his decision was due to
his heavy workload and he
wished to bring himself up to

date with the public spending
negotiations. These are
reaching a critical stage as
the Chancellor's new special
cabinet committee will hold
its first meeting tomorrow.
Mr Major will also be in-
volved in contingency plan-
ning for the action that will
follow the French vote.

Downing Street was aware
that the announcement
m ight add to the air of drama
surrounding the government,
but Mr Major decided that
the risk had to be taken. The
announcement also under-
lined the gravity of the gov-
ernment's difficulties over
public spending. The series of
Continued on page 18. col I

Giscard’s lament page II
Leading article
' and letters, page 15

Sterling on floor, page 19
Business Common, page 23

Exam grades raised

By Michael Evans, defence correspondent, and Robin Young

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ment on the British troop
deployment followed the reso-
lution by the United Nations
Security Councfl on Monday
night to send reinforcements
to Bosnia and to expand the
UN mandate.

The British battalion
group, led by the 1st Battal-
ion Cheshire Regiment, pan
of the Desert Rats 7th
Armoured Brigade, may be
based at B iliac, although de-
tails of the locations for the
Continued on page 18

Operation unknown, page 12
Leading article, page 15

NEARLY 1.000 pupils had
their GCSE and A-level
grades raised on appeal in the
past year, it was announced
yesterday, increasing concern
over consistency of marking.

There were 93 cases sent to
the Independent Appeals Au-
thority after last year’s exami-
nations. three times as many
as in the previous year. Of
these, 20 test cases completed
the lull appeals procedure
and nine were upheld. In
1990 only one was upheld.

In its annual report the
authority said: “The enquir-
ies. appeals and reactions to

them from the centres and
parents, as well as from oth-
ers less directly concerned,
have revealed a strong vein of
disquiet, even suspicion, ab-
out the possibility of error."

In onecase730 pupils woe
upgraded in a GCSE chemis-
try examination set by die
London East Anglian group.

lady Anson, who chairs the
authority, said more appeals
would have been lodged if
pupils were able to deal dir-
ectly with the authority. A
review will consider whether
to extend the remit beyond
appeals from schools.

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PROPERTY CORRESPONDENT

JUST when it seemed every slick gim-
mick had been tried to get the
housemarket moving again, home-
owners are being invited to turn to
the age-old system of bartering.

Out go the housebuilders’ tncks of
. n ew homes covered in fake snow at
Christmas to encourage a sense of
good cheer, the free BMW, or even a
butler for a month thrown in. The
smell of brewing coffee or fresh flow-
ers awaiting any prospective buyers
have long since lost their magic.

The property services arm of the
Bristol and West yesterday launched
a home exchange scheme in more
] than 50 agency brandies in the

South-West and London. The build-

iiux cnriplv aims lO build 3 register Of

housing market — ana are wromg w
exchange homes to do so. There are
an estimated 800.000 owners who
cannot move because of the reces-
sion. With research showing that
more than seven out of ten people
move locally, the society believes the
new scheme offers a useful alterna-
tive strategy to frustrated
homeowners. ,

But building sodeties are not uie
only area of the housing market anx-
ious to try anything. Developers have
also realised that simple methods
could be best In the first auction of
new homes in Britain. 20 luxuiy fiats
in Folkestone, which had stubbornly

refused to .move for two years, were
knocked down in just 62 minutes.
Hie practice is common in America,
but unknown for new homes here
where the auction traditionally has
been the province of property that is
repossessed, or difficult to sell
because it is in poor condition.

The Folkestone auction was
organised for Prowling Homes by the
American firm Kennedy-Wilson.
which has sold more than $3 billion
(£1.6 minion) worth of property in
America by auction. The two-bed-
room. two-bathroom flats overlook-
ing the sea had been on offer for
between £105,000 and £180.000. At
the auction they fetched from
£75,000 to £147,000.

Aubrey Glaser, the auctioneer.

S enior British officials hare
hinted for the first time
that a “no" voie in the French
referendum could put in
doubt Britain's ability to keep
sterling within its present
bands in the ERM. which has
been the keystone of the gov-
ernment's economic policy.
These official comments
came as sterling slid back to
within 0.2 pfennigs of its ab-
solute floor in the ERM and
hit a new low against the
mark. They reinforced re-
ports from Germany of con-
frontation between Norman
Lamonu the Chancellor, and
Helumi Schlesinger. the
Bundesbank president at
Bath ten days ago.

British officials, who made
no comment about relations
between Britain and Ger-
many. conceded that a “no"
vote would hare “important
implications for the nature of
the European exchange-rate
mechanism" and would cre-
ate a system with “a degree of
flexibility in exchange rates
that has not existed" in the
period since Britain joined
the ERM.

They have suggested that
an increase in interest rates of
only two or three percentage
points might not be enough
to avert market pressures for
a sterling realignment, if
speculators targeted sterling
after the French referendum
in the way they attacked the
Italian lira. And they have
confirmed persistent reports
that the German Bundes-
bank was seeking a wider
ERM realignment than the
unilateral devaluation agreed
by Italy last weekend
Coming at this sensitive
time, they suggested that a
“no” vote in France might be
taken, at least by some senior
government advisers, as a sig-
nal to reconsider the govern-
ment's commitment to
defend sterling's ERM ex-
change rate at all costs.

Anatoie Kaletsky
reports on the first signs
of concern among
government advisers
about Britain’s ability to
defend the pound if the
French vote "no"

The sharp fall in sterling
occurred despite private polls
circulating in the markets
that showed a big increase in
French support for Maas-
tricht. Two polls conducted
on Monday showed major-
ities of 56-44 in favour. A poll
conducted on Sunday and
Monday nights showed a 54-
46 spread and another
showed a 50-50 vote.

In the event of a “no" vote,
one senior official predicted
that the ERM would become
“an animal similar to the
system that existed between
1983 and 1987", a period in
which there were four re-
alignments. The system
would still have “an anti-in-
flationary bias and a strong
reluctance to realign, but ulti-
mately there would be a flexi-
bility that has not existed”.

T here seem to be three
reasons for the apparent
doubts about sustaining the
government's absolute com-
mitment to the present ERM
parity in the event of a “no”
vote.

The first and most impor-
tant is probably the astonish-
ing losses suffered by the
Bank of Italy in its ultimately
unsuccessful attempt to hold
up the lira. Although British
officials are unanimous in
their belief that Italy was a
“special case” because of its
high inflation and political
chaos, there is a growing rec-
ognition that the efforts made
by Italy and Sweden recently
to defend their currencies
have been on a far greater
scale than anything seen in
Continued on page 18. col I

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people can practise bidding.

Homeowners wondering if estate
agents are no longer up to all their
own tricks should think again howev-
er estate agents may still clinch a
sale in time-honoured tradition — if
you pay them enough. Within a
month McCarthy & Stone, the retire-
ment home builder, sold U flats
owned by people who wished to move
into one of their new developments in
Choriton in Manchester — by dou-
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Homosexual claims
‘known for years’

An investigation Into claims that homosexuals holding
senior legal positions may have influenced the course of
Scottish Justice would never have been (ordered if
information bad not been leaked to the press, it was claimed
last night (Kerry Gifl writes).

Alistair Darling. Labour MP for Edinburgh Central. 5 ud
the allegations in a leaked police report bad been common
knowledge in Edinburgh legal dixies for threeyears.'Tf the
report had not been leaked to the Edinburgh Evening News
and the other press had not picked up the story nothing
would have happened.” He said he wrote to the former lord
Advocate. Lord Fraser of CaimyDie — now Munster of State
at die Scottish Office — some tune ago, expressing concern
over one case in the report but no action was taken.

The report alleged that homosexuals in the legal
profession may have perverted the course of justice. It
named a High Court judge, two sheriffs and leading
members of the legal fraternity that may have left
themselves open to Workman The report instanced five
ras e s including one involving rent boys in which 47 of 57
charges were suddenly dropped shortly before the trial

Player denies punch

the former England rugby player Gary Bees, accused of
breaking an opponent’s jaw with a punch at a friendly
match, yesterday told Kingston Crown Court that he had
“just wanted to barge him over” during play. Mr Rees
denies causing grievous bodily harm to Stefan Marty, of
London Irish. In evident*, he said- “I never meant to hurt
him in any way. I was distraught when l discovered foe
seriousness of his injuries.” Tape on his lingers would have
prevented him from punching. The trial continues today.

Heritage cash warning

Rescue packages to save historic buildings and their
contents, such as that created recently for Pitchfotd HaH
Shropshire, will have to be funded privately if they are to
succeed, Jocelyn Stevens, chairman of English Heritage,
said in his annual report yesterday. Pitchfbrd Hah, whose
scheme foiled, would have been given to the nation and its
contents bought for £1.8 million fry the National Heritage
Memorial Fund “It was rejected purely on foe grounds that
the money was not there. . ", Mr Stevens said

Radio launch delayed

Hie launch of a third national commercial radio station '
rivalling Radio 4 and the BBCs proposed 24-hour news
network has been delayed for over a year by the Radio
Authority, which says that advertising cannot sustain a
sudden rise in stations. The third station (LNR3), required to
be speech-based will now not broadcast until spring 1 995.
It could have found a frequency late next year, before BBC
Radio 6 begins in early 1994. The authority is to advertise
five new regional licences in the next six months.

£30m boost for port

Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, celebrated 125 years as a port
yesterday with the opening of a £30 million dock entrance
providing access for vessels of 20.000 tonnes, twice (he
previous maximum size. The improved entrance, inaugurat-
ed by Lord Cavendish of Furness, was intended to allow die
Vanguard class submarines being built at the VSEL yard to
exit easily, but will also give the port a competitive edge in
seeking new contracts. Tbeyard has cut its workforce from
14.000 to 9.000 in the pa^f fwo years. <

Photocalls as usual for stay-at-home Majbr as he anticipates spending battles

eeze on cash will

roads and schools

By Jill Sherman, political correspondent

# H

CAPITAL, spending pro-
grammes on. roads, housing,
hospitals, schools and inner
cities are expected to be hit in
the' toughest squeeze on public
spending for ten years.

All ministers are bracing
themselves for stringent cut-
backs on planned pro-
grammes aimed at keeping
public expenditure within the
£244.5 billion agreed last July.
But the real battle over who
gets die biggest share of die
cate w£Q start at tomorrow’s
meeting of the special cabinet
committee.

Michael Portillo, chief secre-
tary to the Treasury, will
tomorrow set out a number of
difficult options to curb spend;
mg while meeting die costs of
die demand-led social security
bill, and the implementation
of new policies such as die
council tax and community
care.

It win be up toihe commit-
tee, chaired by Norman

Lament, the Chancellor, to
draw up a list of spending
priorities and decide where
thfr cuts should falL The final
decision will be put to the foil
cabinet in October or earify
November. Spending minis-
ters point out that under the
new system they are given no
opportunity to negotiate with
Mr Portillo over the bids as
th^ have done in previous
years.

The prime minister, antici-
pating kn outcry from some
departments, is now busy
briefing himself on papers
from meetings between Mr
Poitiflo and minis ters held in
the last two weeks. Mr Majort
decision to cancel his trip to
Spain leaves his diary free to
see Mr Portillo and individual
spending ministers.

Michael Howard, environ-
ment secretary, is arguing for

Sadness as Seville
visit is called off

JOHN Major has swapped a
stroll in die Andalusian sun-
shine and a flag-waring visit
to the British pavilion at Expo
92 in Seville for more prosaic
but pressing business at home,
(Nicholas Wood and Edward
Owen write).

Instead of extolling die won-

ders of the vast steel -and glass
showcase for British industry,
he will be grappling with die
implementation of the council
tax, the cabinet dispute over
public spending and the
future of foe BBC charter,
while keeping a wary eye on
die stale of the pound.

The cancellation of the 24-
hour trip means that Mr
Major and his Whitehall en-
tourage will not be able to
count themselves among die.
1 .75 million people who have

wandered among die displays
by firms such as Marks &
Spencer and Royal Doulton
and marvelled at die way
Nicholas Grimshaw. the ar-
chitect. has designed a tempo-
rary building the size of
Westminster Abbey . -
‘ The cancellation caused dis-
appointment at the British
pavilion yesterday. A spokes-
man said that a midday
reception had been planned
and that although meetings
with VIPs were not part of the
itinerary, Mr Major would
have met Manuel Chaves,
president of the Andalusian
government

There now seems .. little
chance that Mr Major will be
able to fly die flag for British
industry in Seville. Expo 92
doses in less than a month,
and the prime minister's
heavy auteqnn schedule lraves
little opportunity for an im-
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transitional costs for the im-
plementation of the council
tax and Virginia Bottcrmtey,
health secretary, is seeking
over. £600 mtiEort for the
community care programme.

Peter LiUey, social security
secretary, is said to be pressing
for well over £3 billion extra on
his £76 billion budget next
year. Inaccu ra te forecasts on
unemployment will cost an
extra £2 billion. The demand
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and income support, Has been
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poshing overspending up
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to bring forward changes to
the pension age for women by
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save £3 billion. But other
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eligibility for unemployment
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politically acceptable.

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and environment are instead
expected to be the most vulner-
able departments. The gov-
ernment will find it hard to
condone big cutbacks in de-
fence at a time when it is
committing 1,800 troops to
bade up UN forces in Bosnia.
Some ministers are already
alarmed at foe potential extra
costs of committing forces.

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Portillo's knife is an ambitious
£63 billion > prog amine to
improve trunk roads and mo-
torways in Britain* over the
next three years which is
detailed in tbe Tory manifesto.

The public spending white
paper includes a £2 billion
capital programme for the
H raising Corporation for next
year ana £1.9 billion on local
authority housing, much of
which is earmarked for
repairsiThe environment de-
partmentis also to spend £798
million; an inner-city
initiatives next year.

Mrs Bottomley is not expect-
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terms increase that she was
promised to boost her budget
nStt year to £30 billion. She
hopes to get at least enough to
cover inflation and will argue
that extra cash will be needed
to fond pay awards for doctors
and nurses, the community
care programme and the pa-
tients’ charter .

While John Major is said to
be committed to improve-
ments in education services;
the capital programme to
improve schools and the fur-
ther education budget are
expected to come under heavy
scrutiny.

The special cabinet commit-
tee comprises Mr Lament, Mr
Portillo. Tony Newton, leader
of the House of Commons,
John Wateham, leader of the
House of Lords, William
Waldegrave, Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster, Kenneth
Clarke, home secretary, and
Michael Heseltine. trade and
industry secretary. The com-
mittee is expected to meet once
more before the Tory party
conference before putting its
deliberations to the full
cabinet

Trip canceDed, page 1
Leading article,
letters, page 15
Sterling on floor, page 19
Basinet comment page 23

' R hpi- J ohn Majnryn parin g Chris Patten for breakfast and talks on Hong Kong

Old friends
brighten
a hard
day’s night

By Nicholas Wood

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

AS ANOTHER long day in
the life of a modern, prime
minister journeyed into night
John Major rounded off his
official engagements yester-
day by going back to .his '
political roots. .

At about 8pm he was in
Lambeth, south London, raak- 1 0am: Carlos Ferrer, of the European employers

ing a presentation to two
Conservative councillors who
had served alongside him in
tile 1960s and who have
completed 30 years in local
government As he made the
presentation to Hugh Cham-
bers and Bob Greenwood, the

prime minister, buffeted by a
sterling crisis and a host of •
other storms, might have
wished he could swap places.

The day began as it ended —
with old friends. At 8am.
Chris Fatten, architect of the
election viaoiy and now gov-
ernor of Hong Kon& dropped
in for breakfast Before losing
his Commons seat Mr Ptitten
was One of Mr Moor’s closest
advisers. It was perhaps no
coincidence that the cancella-
tion of the prime minister's
trip to Spain was made known
as the two men posed for
photographers at about 9am
outside Admiralty House in
Whitehall, Mr Major's tempo-
rary base while Downing
Street is refiubished.

An hour later, he met the
leaders of Unice, the confeder-
ation of European employers’
organisations, headed by Car-
los Ferrer, the president, who
pressed the, case for the com-
pletion of the single market
and the stalled Gatt talks. To
tiie relief of tile prime minis-
ter. his 'guests did not mention
the pound and interest rates. .

After meetings with cabinet
ministers. Mr Major slipped
away to what was coyly billed—
as a private engagement It
turned out to be lunch at the
Stafford hotel in St James’s
with the Country Landowners’
Assocdation-

After a gentle camer-around -
the rural economy, planning
and reform of the common
agricultural policy, it was back
to Admiralty House and the
rather less tranquil business of

3pm; talking peace with King Husain of Jordan

5 pm; with Norman Willis, of the European TUC

the Middle East King Husain TUC as well as general secre-
of Jordan, a regular visitor to taiy on the domestic front.

London, was due at 3pm to
review the state of the Arab-
Israeli peace talks and the
renewed tensions in the Gulf.

At 5pm, . Norman Willis,
president of the European

forced a rare entry to the
corridors of power with a
delegation. Unlike the em-
ployers. Mr Willis was not
afraid to mention interest
rates and the pound.

The policy gurus in tune with No 1 0

THE “Best and the Brightest”
was how David Halbemram,
in part ironically, described
the members of the Washing-
ton and New York foreign
polity establishment whose
advice led to the growing
involvement of America in
south-east Asia in ihe 1 950s
and 1960s. The same might
now be said, perhaps with
similar irony, .of the group of
advisers around John Major
and Norman Lament whose
views have influenced British
economic polity for more than
a decade.

There are two main groups

— one in 1 0 Downing Street
and the Treasury, and the
other at the Bank of England

— consisting of a mixture of
special advisers and perma-
nent officials. The link is that
most were bloodied during the
turmoil of the mid-seventies
when inflation threatened to
spiral out of control and the
pound plunged. The main
advisers were converted to, or
entrenched in, the view that
inflation is an evil that must be
eliminated, or least kept to the
lowest possible leveL if there is
to be sustainable economic
growth. -That led to the adop-
tion of what became known as
monetarism, even though that
much-abused term covets a

Peter Riddell looks at the background
of the economic advisers grouped
around an embattled John Major

variety of goals and methods
of economic policy.

- If Harvard was tile forma-
tive influence on the American
foreign polity advisers, the
London Business School in
the second half of tiie seventies
was the finishing school for
many of the present advisers.
Sir Terence Bums, the Trea-
sury's permanent secretary;
Alan Budd. his old friend and
successor as chief economic
adviser: and BUI Robinson,
special adviser to the Chancel-
lor. were colleagues in the
small- economic unit there.
They developed proposals
emphasising the importance
of the exchange rate as a
central mechanism in eco-
nomic relationships. _
SirTerence joined the Trea-
sury as chief economic adviser .
in 1980. Singe ihen, he has
played a key role in develop-
ment of policy under
successive chanceDors. His oc-
casional public speeches and ,
comments have reflected- the
change in Treasury flunking
from the mid-eighties - on-

wards to accepting the virtue
of stable exchange rates. That
Jed to die controversial shad-
owing of the marie in 19S7-8
and eventually to entry into
the exchange-rate mechanism
nearly two years ago.

That shift produced conflict
between ' Nigel Lawson and
Margaret Thatcher, and -a
challenge to the Treasury view
from economists such as Sir
Alan Walters, an official and
unofficial adviser at No 10 in
the 1980s. and Patrick
Minford and Tim Congdon.
They see themselves as nue
monetarists who emphasise
the growth erf the money
supply rather than what they
see as flue false goal of a fixed
exchange rate.

Apart from die London Bus-
iness School contingent the
other key Whitehall advisers
are Sir Nigel Writs, Treasury
second permanent secretary;
Michael .Scholar, also at the
Treasury: Alex Allan, princi-
pal private secretary to Mr
Major and aTreasusy official;
and Sarah Hogg, head of the

Downing Street Policy Unit
Mrs Hogg, as an economic
journalist in the seventies and
eighties, was prominent in
debate over polity changes.

At the Bank, a central rote is
played not just by Robin
Leigh-Pemberton. the gover-
nor, but by two career Bank
officials. Eddie George, depu-
ty governor, whose views on
economic and monetary policy
have had a big influence on.
Mr Major and Mr Lamont
and by Anthony Coleby. an
executive director responsible
for market operations.

These advisers share belief
in the importance' of fighting
inflation and of stable ex-
change rates. They have be-
come associated in the
arguments that led to die
decision to join the ERM and
in the latest battles over main-
taining the parity. Although
there are differences of view
within both Treasuiy and
Bank, they agree on what
amounts to a new orthodojty
— embattled though h now is.
What is more. it . ties in with
Mr Major's instincts Even
though he only came round,
gradually in 1989-90 to urg-
ing ERM membership, his
hatted of inflation has been
constant nurtured on his od-
yssey from Cddharbour Lane.

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1XG HOME NEWS 3

PLO man’s daughter defends relationship with heritage secretary and attacks media ‘innuendo’

Friendship
with Mellor
‘nothing to be
ashamed of

By Tim Jones

MONA Bauwens. the woman
who shared her holiday villa
in Marbella with David
Mellor, the heritage minister,
and his family, said in die
High Court yesterday that
there was “nothing, absolutely
nothing" to be ashamed of in
her relationship with the
Mellor family.

Mis Bauwens, 31, said that
she had also found out that
John Major, the prime minis-
ter, had made it known that he
saw “no reason" for Mr
Mellor to be ashamed of his
association with her or her 1
family.

In a libel action, Mrs
Bauwens is seeking d amage
from the publishers of The
People newspaper. She said
that she had “thrown up" after
reading reports of the trial in
yesterday's newspapers, which
she said were full of innuendo
and written for sensational
effect

The court was told that the
real purpose of the articles at
the centre of her action was to
question Mr Mdloris political
judgment in taking a family
holiday with Mrs Bauwens,
whose father is an executive
member of the Palestine lib-
eration Organisation (PLO).

The case, in which Mr
Mellor may be called to give
evidence, concerns the holiday
which Mr Mellor. his wife and
children took with Mrs
Bauwens in a rented villa
at Maibella during die Gulf
war.

During angry exchanges
with George Carman. QC,
Mrs Bauwens, whose father,
Jawid al-Hussein, is chairman
of die Palestine National
Fund, said repeatedly that the.
activities of the PLO were
nothing to do with her. The
newspaper had described her
father as the “paymaster" of
the PLO and had outlined
alleged atrocities committed
by the organisation.

Mr Carman. said it was
“blindingly obvious" that the
primary purpose of The
People articles, published in
September 1 990 at the time of
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait was
to criticise not her but Mr
Mellor. who at the time was
minister for the arts.

Mrs Bauwens replied: “It
may be legitimate for you to
criticise people in public office
but not. in the process, to drag
me into it. to say because I am
my father's daughter I should
not be mixed with."

Mr Carman asked: “Did

Underdog

wooed

by Oxford

By Julia

Llewellyn Smith

OXFORD dons and stu-
dents yesterday explored
ways to attract more sixth-
formers from working dass
and ethnic minority back-
grounds. Their conference
was parr of a new scheme
fired as much by social fair
play as by evidence that
former comprehensive pu-
pils are outperforming

those from public schools
in the quality of their final
degree.

The Oxford Access
Scheme aims to persuade
students from tougher edu-
cational backgrounds to
apply. There have been
similar schemes before, but
none that drew financial
backing, and pledges to
lend sympathetic ears to
applicants, from 1 5
colleges.

The one-day conference
attracted teachers, college
admissions officers, career
advisers from local educa-
authorities, students
geted by Access and
justiy representatives.
Talks ' explored the
practicalities of attracting
students from disadvan-
taged backgrounds.
Jitinder Kohli. who runs
the scheme; said it was
prompted by a belief that
there was a vast pool of

talent being overlooked.

In 1990. 5 per cent of
successful applicants to Ox-
ford came from ethnic
minorities, against S per
cent at other universites.
While 33 per cent of white
applicants landed a place,
only 23 per cent of those
from ethnic minorities did-

non

Leading article, page 15

you appreciate, and do you
appreciate, that ax a very
politically sensitive time when
British lives were at stake in
the Middle East, with hos-
tages taken, it was important
for a government minister to
support the government politi-
cally on the sensitive issue?”
She said: "I appreciate it but I
don't think Mr Mellor did
anything Which did not show
his support of die government
During the holiday. Mr
Mellor rang his office several
times to see if he should
return. He was in constant
touch."

Mr Carman referred to
several terrorist actions alleg-
edly carried out by the PLO.
including the AchiUe Lauro
cruise liner hijack, in the
Mediterranean in October
1985, and the bxkerbie jet
bombing, which killed 375.

Mrs Bauwens said she knew
the accusations had been
made and had been denied. "1
am not here to defend or
uphold the PLO.

“I can only teQ you whai I
know. This organisation is
recognised in over 100 coun-
tries. including Great Britain
and the EEC declaration says
the PLO should participate in
any peace talks.

The Arab league says they
are the representatives of die
Arab people. If what you are
saying is right. I would be very
surprised that Her Majesty's
government would allow this
organisation to have an office
in the UK.”

Mr Carman: “Did you dis-
cuss with your father between
the years 1985 and 1990 the
nature of the position he
occupied on the executive
committee of the PLO?"

Mrs Bauwens: '“No, my
father never talked about this.
We certainly discussed politics,
we-axe-xuveiy spirited family.
We aneveiy talkative, all of us.

“From what I know about
my father’s views he certainly
always advocated peaceful ne-
gotiations. The wholeTiistory
of the family has been peaceful
negotiations. He never came
and said what went on at
meetings, not even in general
terms.”

Mr Caiman asked about
her father's actions at the time
Saddam Hussein took hos-
tages and threatened to use
them as a human shield.

“To your knowledge, did he
ever threaten to resign.?”

She said: “I am not really
prepared to discuss certain

Minister’s wife in
court to back friend

JUDITH Mellor. wife of the
national heritage secretary
David Mellor. yesterday
made an unexpected appear-
ance in the public gallery of
the High Court where her
friend Mona Bauwens is
fighting a libel action against
The People (Tun Jones
writes).

Braving a host of photogra-
phers. Mrs Mellor walked
arm-in-arm with Mrs
Bauwens. Mrs Mellor. who
sat listening intently during

the hearing, had heard

Sticking together Mr MelloTs wife Judith, left, with Mona Bauwens, who seeks damages from The People

George Carman, QC say that
the real issue of the case was
of the political wisdom of Mr
Mellor taking a holiday with
the daughter of an executive
member of the Palestine lib-
eration Organisation during
the Gulf hostilities.

Outside court Mrs Mellor
told reporters: “I am just
supporting my friend Mona. I
planned to come here today
anyway.” Asked if she was
going to give evidence for Mrs
Bauwens. Mrs Mellor said:
“I’m not prepared to com-
ment I'm here. That's all.”

During the lunch break
Mrs Mellor accompanied Mr
and Mrs Bauwens and the
society hostess Liz Brewer to
the Wig and Pen chib where
they dined in a private room
on salmon sandwiches, min-
eral water and coffee.

Dressed in a smart checked
jacket Mrs Mellor sat in the
packed courtroom as her
friend was closely questioned
about her reactions to the
newspaper reports of the first
day of the trial The judge,
who heard arguments about

the press coverage in the
absence of the jusy. said he
would study them “while 1 am
enjoying a sandwich".

Mrs Bauwens said that she
thought Mr Carman’s de-
scriptions of photographs of
her taken at her mothers's
home — one of which showed
her in a leotard astride a
rocking horse — were unjusti-
fied and full of innuendo.

“He was trying to make
them sensationbal by saving
they were provocative or
whatever." she said.

Richard Hanley. QC her
counsel, asked die judge to
look at the reports. “I don't
know if they are supposed to
be fair and accurate reports
but {here is only one subject
addressed in them.” he said.

Mr Carman said that it was
inevitable that some newspa-
pers would deride to pick out
a small pan of Monday's
evidence but his clients were
not responsible for what ap-
peared in other tabloid news-
papers except in so far as they
accurately reported what hap-
pened in court-

Time and again Mrs
Bauwens defended her family
and asked, when questioned
about the activities of the
PLO and of her father: “What
has it got to do with me?"

Mrs Bauwens told Mr Car-
man that to him it was just a
job whereas she was fighting
for her life, a victim of
innuendo and a newspaper
circulation war. Even if her
father was not an honourable
man, the sins of the father
should not be visited on his
children.

things which are my father's
personal feelings."

Asked by her counsel. Rich-
aid Hartley, QC, what she
thought of her cross-examina-
tion on Monday fay Mr Car-
man die said: “1 didn't like the
way the questions were asked.
I thought the implications
were dearly made to make me
look bad or wicked or that I
was improper. I thought they
were hurtful."

Richard Stott, who was edi-
tor of The People at the time
that the paper published die
artides said that he considered
the sioiy was one of “huge
relevance” to his . readers. At
die beginning of September it
was likely that Britain .was
faring one of the gravest
military crises since the second
world war. 1 ' ' ■' ’ ■

“It was on that bads and
against that background that
the stray regarding Mr Mellor
and his holiday was used- The
purpose of die stray was to
draw people's attention to die
fact that a minister of the
government had been on holi-
day for almost a month with
die daughter of a leading
member of the PLO and that
in our view this was something
that should undoubtedly be
told to readers.”

Police react coolly
to prostitute zone

Birmingham council is considering a
plan to shift the vice-trade to an
industrial area. Craig Seton reports

B alsall Heath is an inner
dty area of Birmingham
which has struggled valiantly
for several years to shake off its
ran down image and reput-
ation as die main red light
area of Britain’s second largest
dty, where prostitutes openly
ply their trade on numerous
streets or advertise their avail-
ability by posing in under-
clothes in house windows.

Local parks, allotments and
lock-up garages are regularly
usjd for the exchange of
casual sex and money between
the girls and their clients, in
spite of repeated action by the
local police to crack down on
the trade. Residents complain
constantly about discarded
condoms, of women being
molested by kert> crawlers and
of abuse by prostitutes.

To fry to develop a long-
term strategy to curb the
nuisance, the dty council
commissioned a report that
recommends creating a “zone
of tolerance”, possibly in an
industrial area, where prosti-
tutes could work without fear
of arrest and could be moni-
tored and have health checks.

The report estimates that
one in 12 of Birmingham
men use the services of an
estimated 900 prostitutes in
the dty and whose numbers
are said to be increasing due to
poverty.

Later this week die commit-
tee will consider a motion io
begin talks with the police,
magistrates, soda! workers,
probation officers and other
agencies that could lead to
setting up a zone for
prostitutes.

West Midlands police react-
ed cautiously yesterday to the

plan. Supt Philip Scriven.
head of police in Balsall
Heath, said that a change in
the law would be needed.

He said that if prostitution
was restricted to an industrial
area, women working locally
could still be molested by kerb
crawlers and many prostitutes
would resist having to work in
a special area.

“They would see it as a form
of control dial put them in
some form of legitimate em-
ployment that would involve
paying tax and national insur-
ance. If you are earning
between £1,000 and £1.200 a
week tax free, as some of them
are. they are not going to
agree to that willingly.

“It would also be difficult to
remove girls from areas where
they are accustomed to work-
ing.” Nor would a special area
solve the problem of under-
age prostitutes, girls operated
by pimps or drug-related pros-
titution, he said.

T he Liberal Democrat con-
ference in Harrogate yes-
terday called for an enquiry to.
consider whether brothels
should be legalised and
prostitution treated like any
other other business (Robin
Oakley writes). ■

‘ The conference urged the
government to stop the fining
of prostitutes, to concentrate
police efforts on arresting
pimps rather than prostitutes
and to make the carrying of
condoms inadmissible as evi-
dence of prostitution. The
conference rejected a Young
liberal Democrats amend-
ment for the immediate
legalisation of prostitution.

Conference reports, page 10

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1992

HOME NEWS 5

Research team’s work
led to withdrawal of
children’s vaccines

By Jeremy Iaurance. health services correspondent

DETECTIVE work by doctors
and laboratory staff in Not-
tingham led to the withdrawal
yesterday of two brands of
MMR vaccine given to child-
ren to protect them against
measles, mumps and rubella
because of evidence that it can
cause a mild form of
meningitis.

But doctors fear that a third
brand of the MMR vaccine
which is still considered safe
may not give as effective
protection against the diseases
as the two that have been
withdrawn.

Professor Kenneth Caiman,
chief medical officer at the
health department, wrote to
all doctors yesterday inform-
ing them that Pluserix-MMR,
made try Smith Kline Bee-
ch am and Immravax. made
by Merieux were being re-
placed with MMR-H, made
by Merck Sharp & Dohme
and distributed by Wellcome.

The safely of MMR vaccine
has been monitored by the
National Study of Meningo-
Encephalopalhy in Oxford
since its introduction in Octo-
ber 1 988. About 50 reports of
viral meningitis after the vacci-
nation had been received from
more than tour million child-
ren treated. "It was certainly
not enough to take action on,”
Dr Aidan Macfariane. direc-
tor of public health at Oxford
health authority, said.

But paediatricians at
Queen’s Medical Centre, in
Nottingham, ordered tests of
the spinal Huid oT all children
admitted to Nottingham
Health Authority hospitals
after the vaccination to check
for meningitis, which is a
complication of mumps. The
children had developed raised
temperature, stiff neck, and
sensitivity to light and had
occasionally had convulsions
about three weeks after
vaccination.

Laboratory staff found six
cases over three years in which
the spinal fluid did not look
normal. It was sent to the
virology lab. which identified
mumps virus, later confirmed
by genetic sequencing at die
National Institute of Biologi-
caJ Standards in London as
the Japanese Urabe strain.

Haines; Mirror had no
option but to fire Davies

Newsman

angered

Mirror

ITAFF at the Daily Mirror
rould have "hanged” Nicho-
as Davies, their former
nreign editor, if he had not
teen sacked, an industrial
ribunal in London was told
esterday. . ,

Joe Haines, former political
diior, told the hearing that
eelings were running high
ifter allegations that he was
in Israeli spy and an arms
lealer. He said that when a
inion representative was told
if the sacking, he said: “Good,
f he had come back here, we
would have hanged him
mrsdves.”

Although no one at the
Jaily Mirror believed the spy
md arms trade stories, Mr
Davies allegedly put the news-
paper's credibility at risk when
ic lied about a visit durnig
which he met a dealer in Ohio.
Unerica, in 1985.

Mr Haines, former press
ifficer for Harold Wilson, said
hat the Daily Mirror had no
ration but to’ fire M r Davies.
Commons motions had been
abled about his activities and
ither newspapers were calling
iim a liar. He had
selieved accusations that Mr
Davies had helped to sell arms
o Iran, been a Mossad agent
5r had helped Israelis to
rapture the nudear technician
Mordeehai Vanunu. He be
lieved Mr Davies had never
‘sold a peashooter, let alone a

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missed from his £55.0Wkt-
«3ir iob last October, shortly
death of the Dafl;
Mirror’s publisher. Robert
Maxwell He is claiming un-
fair dismissal. .

The hearing continues.

identical to that in the with-
drawn vaccines.

The Nottingham study sug-
gested that viral meningitis
after vaccination was more
common than had been
thought at one in 6,000, but
the health department says the
national figure is one in
1 1,000. Dr Richard Slade, a
Nottingham authority consul-
tant in communicable disease
control, said: "We have been
in some dispute with the
department over that" The
Nottingham researchers
wanted to publish their find-
ings in the Lancet, which
forced the government to act

Doctors said yesterday that
vaccine-induced viral menin-
gitis was a rare, transient mild
illness, and was quite unlike
bacterial meningitis, which
could be fatal. All children
affected had recovered.

The health department said
that before the vaccine was
introduced, mumps affected
“nearly everyone" and one in
400 contracted a more severe
form of mumps meningitis.
Measles and rubella are also
al record low levels since the
vaccine was introduced.

Dr Caiman advised doctors
yesterday to continue giving
the withdrawn vaccines,
Phiserix and Immravax.
which contain the Urabe
strain of the mumps virus,
until adequate supplies of the
third vaccine MMR-II, which
contains the Jetyl Lynn strain
and has not been linked with
any cases of meningitis, be-
come available.

Dr Slack said there was “still
a question” whether the Jeryi
Lynn virus strain was as
effective. “The Urabe strain
works very well. The nearer
you get to the disease itself
with the vaccination, the better
tiie immunity. If you have got
a vaccine that doesn’t produce
any reaction at all. is it as
good?”

□ The health department an-
nouncement of occasional
cases of viral meningitis after
some MMR types of injection
have been confirmed illus-
trates the recent Ijpnesty of the
department, ’which lias
delighted the medical profes-
sional but unwittingly

Spinach
may help
prevent
cancer

byNickNuttall

TECHNOLOGY

CORRESPONDENT

NATURAL substances
produced by spinach may
help protect people from
some types of cancer, sci-
entists said yesterday.
They daim to have identi-
fied chemicals produced
by certain plants including
spinach which tests indi-
cate have powerful cancer
combating properties.

The research, details of
which were disclosed at a
conference organised by
the Institute of Food Re-
search, part of the
Agricultural and Food Re-
search Council, in Nor-
wich, is expected to spawn
studies aimed at identify-
ing the genes in spinach
responsible for producing
its anti-cancer agent.

Kamild Shinohaia, the
scientist behind the dis-
covery, said yesterday that
once identified, the genes
could be used to boost the
production of the anti-
cancer chemicals in spin-
ach. “With biotechnology
it is possible to also put
these into other plants,”
said Dr Shinohaia. of the
national food research in-
stitute in IbarakL Japan.

The work involved pre-
paring large protein com-
pounds from plants
including spinach, brocco-
li, burdock, cucumber,
aubergine and green pep*
pers. Some bacteria. Sal-
monella typhimurium,
were then exposed _ to
known cancer causing
agents while others were
also exposed to the plant
agents. The plant prepara-
tions significantly inhibit-
ed the development of
cancers, the tests showed.

Other tests using cul-
tured human cancer cells
found extracts from spin-
ach inhibited the growth
of breast and lung cancer
as well as other carcino-
mas. More than two anti-
cancer agents have also
been identified iir garlic
although their levels de-
pend on file plant's age.

alarmed millions of mothers
(Dr Thomas Stutterford

writes). ....

All medicine is a balance of
risk against benefit Unfortu-
nately. the announcement of
the Chief Medical Officer did
not mate it clear that the
danger after vaccination was
only apparent for at the most
five or six weeks.

Tens of thousands of moth-
ers who had their children
injected over the past year or
two have been worried and
have been calling their GPs.
There is no danger and their
children are protected against
mumps measles and rubella
and cannot at this stage have
developed meningitis.

The benefits of protection
against mumps, measles and
rubella are so immense that
mothers should not hesitate to
ask for it. They should be
relieved that they are spared
the anxieties of previous gen-
erations whose children had to
suffer the long-term conse-
quences of these diseases.

Winning ways: the Prince of Wales meets
Eloise Edwards of Moss Side,
Manchester, at the seventh Community
Enterprise Scheme awards at Edinburgh
castle yesterday. He paid tribute to the
inspiration of ordinary people who, -in
spite of modest budgets, had managed to
complete community-led building
schemes that had improved their sur-
roundings, often in areas of deprivation,
with the help of professional advisers
(Kerry Gill writes). Awards in the scheme.

which is sponsored by The Times, the
Royal Institute of British Architects and
Business in the Community, were made
in nine categories with the most out-
standing going to the Cornerstone
Garthdee Project in Aberdeen. The
project, which created purpose-built
homes for handicapped people, won the
Charles Douglas-Home Award. It was
the first time that the awards were held
outside London. Robin Dean, the
scheme's administrator, said there had

been a deliberate decision to hold the
ceremony in Scotland because of the
huge support found there. It is hoped
that next year the ceremony will take
place at Cardiff castle. After the prince
had viewed some of the winners, the
Scottish Community Projects Fund was
relaunched. The fond offers grants to
voluntary and community groups who
want professional help in producing a
feasibility study for improvements to
their environment

Green hints
misleading
shoppers

By Alison Roberts

S HOPPERS are beiri£ misled
by vague slogans making envi-
ronmentally friendly claims
for household products, psy-
chologists have found.

Green consumers remem-
ber environmental claims as
more positive than they really
are, and can be easily conned
into misreading them, a team
from the University of Hert-
fordshire will report today at a
British Psychological Society
conference in Hatfield.

Interviewees were asked to
recall wording on 15 products.
In all 450 statements made, it
was remembered as being
more environmentally friend-
ly than it was, especially when
it could be easily misinterpret-
ed. The words "Aluminium
foil is recyclable" on packag-
ing gave the impression that
the foQ had been redded.
Claims about packaging were
often aaribuled to its contents.

Dr Jane Pierson, from the
team, said: “Deodorant pack-
aging might say 'Contains no
CFCs which allegedly damage
the environment' and con-
sumers will remember that as
'Contains nothing which will
harm the ozone layer' . which is
often not true at all.”

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1992

Schools wake up to the advantages of an earlier timetable

SARAH Martin no longer
dreads the long afternoons in
the classroom. For Sarah, 12.
afternoons mean fewer les-
sons and more time to play
netball and hockey and to ride
her horse.

“Everyone likes finishing
lessons earlier, 7 ’ - Richard
Firth, 15. a fellow pupil at
wmingdon School; ' near
Eastbourne, said. “You can

Schools converting to a Continental-style
timetable claim better results from
happier pupils, Kate Alderson reports

be home in time to watch
Neighbours. No one com-
plains that much about get-
ting up at seven o'clock."

Sarah and Richard are two
of the 750 pupils at the
school, which adopted a
Continental timetable a year
ago. PupQs start and finish
earlier and schools use the
“extra” hours at the end of the
day to provide a range of

activities. Until now, the in-
creasing introduction of the
Continental-style day has
been piecemeal, undirected
by either Whitehall or educa-
tion authorities- The experi-
ence of pupils, parents and
head teachers so far suggests
that the changes mil become
the routine of many more
children.

Last night, Hammersmith
and Fulham council, west
London, was due to become
the first authority in Britain to
consider converting all its
primary and secondary
schools, teaching J 3.000 pu-

pils, to the earlier timetable
and a four-term year with-
after-hours activities. It be-
lieves that the move, allowing
more after-school activities,
will give inner-city children a
better education.

Tideway School, in New-
haven. East Sussex, pioneered
the timetable change' ten
years ago. Ken Saxfay, the
headmaster, believes mat the
8.10am start has improved
the children's academic per-
formance. “Our A, B and C
grades in GCSEs and their
equivalents have doubled dur-
ing the period." he says. “Our

school is an infinitely more
civilised place now. There' is
less time wasted being bored
and less time to hang around.

“Afternoon lessons are
more productive, and the
activities we offer are taken
up by at least half of our 1.400
pupils. 1 also think that it's
less dangerous for a child to
walk to school in the dark on a
winter morning than in the
evening.”

Children at Tideway finish
lessons at 2.15pm and can
sira in the choir, play in one
of me two orchestras, join an
engineering or public speak-
ing dub or do. community
work, among other activities,
until 4pm.

Several schools in Somer-
set, East Sussex. Nottingham-
shire, Merseyside and Hamp-
shire have changed to the

earlier start and many City
Technology Colleges start at.
7. 30am and offer a mixture of
lessons and. activities until
5 pm.

The education department -
said yesterday that timetable
changes were a matter for
individual schools to decide.
Hammersmith and Fulham-
said that its plans would only

from parents m a substantial

majority of schools.

Some parents at Wlffing-
don bad initial reservations.
Linda Thorpe, mother of
Chris, 15. and Natalie; 11.
said: "At first I was against
the whole scheme, but now I
have been won over. I can
remember school and I didn’t
like ft anywhere near as much
as ‘my children do- now.
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Some teaching unions are
less enthusiastic. The Nat-
ional Association of School-
masters/Union of Women

Teachers is firmly opposed to
die fouwerm year being pro-
posed in Hammersmith and
says that the Continental day
must not lead, to longer hours
for: teachers. The National

Head teachers
seek 9% pay
rise as reward
for reforms

By John O'Leary, education correspondent

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HEAD teachecs yesterday
submitted a claim for a 9 per
cent pay rise as the govern-
ment bluntly warned public
sector employers about the
consequences of high wage
settlements.

Although less than the Nat-
ional Union of Teachers' 16-5
per cent daim. the heads'
target is more than twice the
rate of inflation. The case for
the increase is based on die
extra responsibilities imposed
by the government's education
reforms.

As details of die daim were
announced, however, Nigel
Forman, the higher education
minister, spelt out the govern-
ment's tough line on pay. He
told polytechnic directors, in
Edinburgh for their last con-
ference: “Any irresponsible in-
crease in salaries will lead not
to an increase in exchequer
spending, but to a loss of jobs." .

Lecturers in five former poly- *
technics have turned down a
pay offer of 4.65 per cent and
clerical staff have begun a
series of strikes after rejecting
a 4.3 per cent rise. Mr
Forman said that both offers
were reasonable, and reflected
productivity gains. ‘

In a speech obviously in-
tended to dampen expecta-
tions throughout the educa-
tion service, Mt Forman said:
“Employers are recruiting in a
buyer's market. Accordingly,
they need to challenge the
expectation that there will be
annual increases in pay simply
for delivering a given level of
service."

He added: “The only pru-
dent basis for an increase in
pay is improvement in produc-
tivity and performance. It is in
everyone's interest to ensure
(hat any further pay increases
are based on this principle.”

Although teachers’ pay will
not be settled until their review
body reports early next year,
lecturers throughout (he high-
er education system are now in
dispute. The Association of
University Teachers will meet
the vice-chancellors shortly to
decide whether to take legal
action against John Patten,
the education secretary, to tty
to remove his veto on a 7 per

cent pay increase. David Halt,
the genera] secretary of the
National Association of Head.
Teachers, acknowledged yes-
terday that there would be
similar pressures on pay in
schools, but he said that it was
“futile" for ministers to try to
hold down salaries artificially
while piling on extra de-
mands. “If toe leaders of the
profession are not paid sala-
ries which equate with the size
of their jobs, we wiD not
recruit retain or motivate
those who must run the educa-
tion system."

The 32,000-strong union
said that its claim would mean
toe head of a typical primary
school earning £27,746, with
a secondary head receiving
£42,677. A typical primary
school deputy head would get
£24,574, and a secondary
deputy £322*39.

Mr Hart said that job
evaluation comparisons by a
firm of management consul-
tants had shown that heads
and deputies were paid a
minimum of 3.2 percent less
than comparable profession-
als. The 9 per cent claim
represented toe sum of this
figure and' the 5.8 per cent
average rise predicted for in-
dustrial and service salaries in
toe year ending in April 1993.
□ The polytechnic directors
agreed at their conference to
join their counterparts in the
traditional universities, estab-

Good little runner: Peter Faizimzst,
technology teacher at St Richard's
School, BexhflL getting to grips yester-
day with the machine that will try to
break the U-yearald world land
speed record for lightweight electric
cars. He is watched by pupils Vicky
White, left, and BeQa Harrison. The
battery powered car. unveiled at the

Seeboand technology fair at Brighton,
is sponsored by Lotus Engineering but
is being designed and developed as a

private venture with pupils at the East
Sussex school as well as battery.

Sussex school as well as battery,
computer and engineexingfinns (Niat
NuttaO writes). The Lotus team, which
helped to propel toe pursuit cyclist
Chris Boardman to an Olympic gold

medal in Barcelona on a lightweight,
streamlined bicyde, believes that by
using similar materials and skills the
car could reach more than 120mpb
over a one-kilometre flying start to
beat the 100-242mph record set in
1981 by Jens Knoblock of Germany.
The derision to work with the school
whose effort is befog co-ordinated by

Mr Fairhurst was made because
several of the design team are former
pupils of St Richard's or have family
connections. The car will use a high-
powered 45kw electric motor and
standard lead arid batteries. Testing
of the car is planned for the middle of
next month and an attempt on the
record is scheduled for January.

fishing a single representative
body for the expanded urtiver-

Top shopping centre crashed
because it was ‘too upmarket’

Big workforce fall
‘will hit economy’

Bentleys
on the move

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body for the expanded urtiver-
sitysector.

They will join the Commit-
tee of Vice-Chancellors and
Principals in October, subject
to the vice-chancellors’ agree-
ment at their conference next
week in Exeter, Devon.

D Kellie Darby, 16, was sur-
prised when she received a
fester from the prime minis-
ter's office containing two
mistakes. It came to her home
at West Ardsley. West York-
shire, days after the govern-
ment launched an investiga-
tion into education standards,
with special attention being
paid to spelling and grammar.
In toe letter, from Mr Majors
correspondence secretary,
Kellie's' surname was twice
written with a small “<T, not a
capital.

Kellie, who gained a B
grade in English GCSE. said
she was surprised that no one
noticed toe error before the
letter was posted. Kellie, who
had written to Mr Major
about animal rights, said: "If
we had not used capital letters
ax school we probably would
have not passed our exams.
It’s a bit much after everything
the government has been say-
ing recently."

A Downing Street spokes-
man apologised, saying to at
the mistakes were typing
errors.

Letters, page 15 |

BRITAIN'S most exclusive
shopping centre collapsed
with debts of £160 million
because toe developers chose
the wrong place to attract
affluent shoppers, the new
management said yesterday.

The Galleria, 'a £200 million
complex over toe AI (M) tun-
nel at Hatfield, Hertfordshire,
which opened a year ago. has
a string of exclusive, but
empty, shops and went into
receivership on Monday. The
drops failed to attract enough
people from north London
and Hertfordshire and were
too expensive for Hatfield.

Geoff Foot, who manages
the centre on behalf of the
receivers. Grant Thornton,
said toe concert of- housing
only upmarket stores had been
a mistake. “We will. identify
the good and bad tenants and
we vdU aim to bring in middle:
market stores"

The Galleria was the brain-
child of toe Carroll Develop-
ment Group. A syndicate of
banks called in the receivers
because AI Galleria Invest-
ment Corporation could not
meet its construction debts.

Mr Foot said: The complex
& obviously a victim of the
recession. Retailers paid rent
according to their trading
levels and letting has been
slow and well below toe level
needed to finance the debts."

Roger Groom, group prop:
eny director of Sears, which

A£160m
complex failed
to attract
affluent
buyers, writes
Nicholas Watt

owns Miss Sdfridge, Ware-
house and Saxone, said:
“Although the AI passes un-
derneath toe Galleria. Hat-
field is not a destination."
People were always on the
move in the area.

The complex was weakened

because it did not have an
"anchor” store to draw shop-
pers. Shqp managers in toe
complex criticised toe develop-
ers. Alan Kaye, who owns two
stores, said: “They started out
with a blaze of publicity. But
then this stopped and instead
of being upfront the manage-
ment pretended everything
was. wonderful. I hope the
new managers don't take the
centre downmarket.”

Roger Carrofl, for the devel-
opers. said: “There was a £60
million overrun on the £90
million contstruction plan and
an 1 8-month delay on a 21-
month building timetable.”

By David Young

BRITAIN’S policymakers
should start preparing now for
a demographic “time-bomb"
when the number of younger
people in toe national
workforce drops and the child-
ren of toe post-war baby boom
become pensioners, according
to the first of two major reports
prepared for toe Carnegie
Enquiry into The Third
Age"

The enquiry is conducting
ten major surveys into issues
which wfll affect people aged
50 to 74. The work will be
completed for toe launch next
spring of a campaign to
highlight issues affecting the
“third-agers”. The r first re-

ports, published today, look at
third-agers’ role in the work-

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third-agers’ role in the work-
place and at pensions, savings
and earnings.

The reports suggest thai
government, employers and
the trades unions should look
beyond toe recession which is
badly affecting third-agers.
They say that unless attitudes
and policies change then Brit-
ain’s long-term reooway may
be endangered by an increas-
ingly inactive, but healthy and
independent third-age popu-
lation, under-utilised and a
burden on those in work.

The report on employment
says dm never before las
there been such a massive
withdrawal from work by men

under 65, toe retirement age,
and shows that paid emplqy-
ment and earnings are crucial
for saving money mid provid-
ing the private or occupational
pensions essential to sup-
plement state benefits in old
age.

The report on incomes
shows the enormous changes
In toe level and make-up of
earnings and savings of third-
agers in the past 20 years.
While gross earnings are up
by about 40 per cent in real
terms their share of income
from earnings fell from 70 per
cent in 1971 to about 57 per
cent in 1989. The contribu-
tion of private pensions and
investment income rose from
14 per cent of total income to
23 per cent

The reports, by the Institute
• for Fiscal Studies and toe
Public Finance Foundation,
independent polity specialists,
suggest that while some older
workers have investments and
private pensions which are an
increasingly important part of
their income, others who left
school aj 1 5 or 1 6 and have no
qualifications are trapped in a
cycle of low-sldlied work and
unemployment.

□ Income: Pensions. Earn-
ing and Savings in the Third
Age. Employment: The Role of
Work in die Huni Age. (Bailey
Management Services, 1 27
Sandgate Road, Folkestone.
Kent. CT20 2BL £9.50.)

Union of Teachers is con-
cerned that the four-term year
would cause difficulties for
school exam timetables, and
that it could increase the
numbers of “latchkey" child-
ren with working parents.
Schools that have toe new
timetable believe that they
have countered this difficulty
by providing teacher supervi-
sion for children after lessons,
even if they do not participate
in the extra activities.

Joan Freeman, a psycholo-
gist and author of a book on
childhood learning, said: “1
think the continental timeta-
ble. with after-houre activities
and supervision, is a srep in
toe right direction. Early
starts are a good thing
because there is a lot of
evidence that mornings are
the time for remembering."

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City forms
litter link
with China

Swansea City Council is to
spend £2,700 sponsoring litter
bins in China. The Labour-
run council wants to promote
toe city by putting its logo on
the bins iii Nantong, its twin
town.

Margaret Smith, a dissent-
ing member of the committee
that approved the spending,
complained that the money
should be spent on bins tor
Swansea, where she said the
streets were full of litter.

Mel Edwards, the council's
director of marketing, said:
"Putting our name on rubbish
bins wflj work because it will
be seen by toe people that
matter, international busi-
nessmen. It’s great value."

Actress fined
for smuggling

The actress Judy Came was
fined £1,200 for smuggling
cocaine by sending it in a par-
ed from America. The pack-
age, bound for a hairdressing
salon In Northamptonshire,
was intercepted by Customs.

Carne,"i>3, of Church
Brampton, Northampton-
shire, who starred in toe com-
edy show Rowan - and Mar-
tin's Laugh-In , admitted
smuggling. William Barratt.
44, a hairdresser, also of
Church Brampton, admitted a
similar charge and was fined
£ 1 . 000 .

Punch verdict

Vincent Canon, 29, of Port-
ishead, Avon, was cleared of
manslaughter by Oxford
Crown Court after punching a
family friend. Alfred
Thornhill, in a pub at Didcot,
Oxfordshire. Mr Thornhill
collapsed and died.

Speed trick

Avon and Somerset police are
to put plastic patrol care, on
motorway bridges to frighten
motorists into slowing down.
Further down the road will be
a real patrol car to catch driv-
ers who speed up again.

Murder charge

Trevor Thomas, 50, an ambu-
lanceman* of Barking, east
London, was remanded in
custody by Barking magis-
trates, accused of murdering
his giri friend, Susan Oliver.

Gun threat

Police in Hull are hunting two
men who pointed a gun at a
boy aged 1 1 and ordosd him
to hand over his bicycle. They,
ran off after toe bey refused.

Sailor returns

Pete- Hancock, 62. has re-
turned to South wold, Suffolk,
after seven years of sailing sin-
gle-handed around the world
on his 26ft yacht Kylie.

Smoking ban

The coach company National
Express is to ban smoking
from November I, Nine out of
ten passengers preferred
smoke-free travel, toe com-
pany said.

8 New Bond Street: A
sympathetic restoration

Electricity firms plan to build power stations in forests

BENTLEY and Go. the Bond Street
Jewellers, are moving. Known for
sixty yean as the buyers and sellers
of the loveliest jewellery they have
become a landmark m Bond Street.
Today at noon they threw open the
doors of iheir new shop at 8 New
Bond Sum. a beautifully restored
building dating from the reign of
William IV Mid the perfect setting
for their fine stock of antique
jewellery, silver and pieces of
Fabergd, Their opening hours are
10.00 to 5.30 and further
information may be obtained by
telephoning 07 1 629 OMl.

By Nick Nuttall

TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT

FOREST-based power stations
turning wood into electricity and
large enough to provide fod for a
town are being planned by sane of
Britain’s regional etectricity compa-
nies. it was disclosed yesterday. The
stations, two of which are being
actively considered for Thetford
forest, Norfolk, and Keflder freest,
Northumberland, would burn
wastes generated by logging and
timber operations.

Paul Maryan, a wood energy
expert at toe Energy Technology
Support Unit in Harwell Oxford-

shire. and the organisation evaluat-
ing toe schemes' economic and
technical fusibility, said yesterday
that the country could support
several large forest-based power
stations, including possibly two in
Wales and in South-East England.

Scotland could support even
more bat tiffs would require the
government to extend the Non
Fossil Fuel Obligation, a levy which
supports environment-friendly en-
ergy schemes, north of the border.
News of toe schemes comes as
delegates gathered yesterday at an
International Energy Agency confe-
rence in Enniskillen. Northern Ire-
land. to plan toe future for small.

form-based, power stations also
fuelled by wood and connected to
the National Grid. Mai com Daw-
son, an official with the agriculture
department said that the United
Kingdom's first gasification reac-
tor would be unveiled at toe local
agricultural college in October
where it would provide heat and
electricity.

The lOOkW power unit designed
by engineers at the University of
Louvain. Belgium, turns coppiced
wfflow and poplar directly into a
mixture of hydrogen, carbon mon-
oxide ant} methane to power a
generator. It is claimed to be 85 to
90 percent efficient The scheme, to

be evaluated by Energy Technology
Support Unit over ran* months,
could realise the dream of a
national network of form-based
raim-power stations which could
help formers’ incomes, make better
use of marginal land and conserve
the countryside.

Instead of growing a crop which
requires transportation in trucks,
toe formers' coppiced harvest is
exported into toe grid down a
form's existing electricity cable.
Privately some electricity com-
panies fear such a network could be

an administrative nightmare- Mur-
ray Carter, a Yorkshire former and
spokesman for toe wood develop-

. meni energy group, yesterday re-
jected such suggestions. “We know
from the wind power projects going
through in this country and abroad
that it is perfectly possible to have
dispersed power generation con-
nected to the grid,*’ he said.

Mr Dawson said the gtssifier
evaluation was “very exciting . . .
this will be' the proof of the
podding. If we can show it is
technically and economically viable
l believe we will lave a real
runner." Among the big wood
power stations the one at Thetford
cotrid be up to 20MW. comparable
to some conventional power
. stations.

Katya Predtchenskaya. the
Russian baby brought to Brit-
ain for a harelip operation,
was said to be comfortable
after surgery in Chepstow.
Gwent.

Secret brew

Scottish and Newcastle brew-,
ery hired a crane.to right an
overturned tanker at Tint-
wstfe, Derbyshire, after refus-
ing police requests to drain toe
prototype beer inside.

Victim buried

Helen Gome, 15, who was
murdered six weeks' ago jn
Honuiean, . Hampshire. * will
be buried today.

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1 9°

Electoral pact
fears split
Lib Dems

By Robin Oakley, political editor

SENIOR Liberal Democrats
were divided as the party
yesterday continued to agitate
over the form and extent of
any contacts it should have
with other parties.

Grassroots feeling against a
pad has become dear, and
several of the party’s MPs
appeared to be warning Pad-
dy Ashdown not to rush
towards any realignment, as it
become dear that even like-
minded Labour and Liberal
Democrat MPs were not pre-
pared to advocate any kind of
national pact.

Although Mr Ashdown is
ruling out formal pacts and
insisting on no doser associ-
ation with Labour until it has
proved itself electable, his par-
ty dearly remains suspicious
that he is keener than most on
an eventual deal. The argu-
ments are expected to Bare up
again today as the party
debates its future strategy.

Charles Kennedy, the MP
for Ross, Cromarty and Skye,
told delegates in his presiden-
tial address that they must
concentrate on building not a
pad bur a party.

Agreeing with Mr Ashdown
that the whole process of
opposition politics had to be
reformed before there was a
chance of securing electoral
reform. Mr Kennedy said that
the task in Harrogate was “not
to try and tie our feet in
ribbons with some hypotheti-
cal. undeliverable political
pan but to begin to articulate a
distinct post-election stance”.

He appeared to have a
coded warning for his impetu-
ous leader in insisting that
they must get their thinking
straight “calmly and
cautiously”.

The motion for todays de-
bate rejects any nationwide
pact but leaves the way open
for local deals. Some MPs
revealed their doubts about its
call for the party to “promote a
process of discussion which
indudes those, of all parties
and of none, who believe that
a fundamental change in the
governance of Britain is the

key to all other necessary
changes.”

While Mr Ashdown is sup-
ported by Jim Wallace, leader
of the Scottish party, and by
Menzies Campbell, the de-
fence spokes mm others fear a
threat to the party's identity.
Malcolm Bruce. MP for Gor-
don, who led his party in co-
operation with Labour in the
Scottish constitutional conven-
tion. told a fringe meeting
yesterday that while he had no
regrets. "Our radical agenda
was compromised and we
paid the electoral price”. It
had reinforced the Tory slo-
gan that a vote for the Liberal
Democrats was a vote for
Labour.

At a fringe meeting on
realignment Sir David Steel,
the former Liberal leader, and
Frank Field, the Labour MP
for Birkenhead, ruled out
formal pacts but suggested
that local parties could work
together. Mr Field warned the
Liberal Democrats not to work
under the false impression
that Labour was dying when it
had increased its vote and its
seals at the last two elections.
Their preoccupation with elec-
toral reform, he said, made
them look to the electorate like
a one-issue party.

□ A group of party activists
who support links with Labour
later tabled an amendment to
todays conference motion.
railin g on the conference to
welcome “the moves by mem-
bers of the Labour party and
others to help build a consen-
sus for fair votes and other
constitutional reforms. Euro-
pean unity and a sustainable
libera] economy".

Leighton Andrews, one of
the sponsors of the amend-
ment said: “Labour is moving
in our direction on many
issues and it is foolish to say we
cant talk to them.'’

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Letters, page 15
Matthew Parris, page 18

Room for a view; Liberal Democrats listen to yesterday’s debate on homelessness, during which Tory policies came under fierce attack

Homes quick fix ruled out

By Sheila Gunn, political correspondent

Delegates back fighter

THE scale of Britain's hous-
ing problems persuaded
Liberal Democrats yesterday
that it was unrealistic to com-
mit the parly to a policy of
eliminating homelessness
within 12 months.

After the conference made
dear that housing should be
treated as a priority. Nigel
Jones. MP for Cheltenham,
promised a green paper at
next May's conference.

Liberal Democrats con-
demned Tory polities which,
they said, had led to record
levels of homeless families,
young people on the streets,
mortgage repossessions, and
poor housing.

Opening the debate Alex
Carlile MP, leader of the
Welsh liberal Democrats,

said the party must expunge
the disgrace and dishonour of
burgeoning homelessness
forced on Britain by Conserva-
tive governments. Among the
options being considered tty
ministers during the public
spending round, he said, were
a£2 billion cut in the housing
budget and a local govern-
ment spending freeze.

The conference motion
called on the government to
allow councils to use house
sale receipts to buQd more
homes for rent to launch an
emergency strategy to end
unintentional homelessness;
and to pay housing benefit in
advance to the jobless to help

them rent homes. John S mith-
son from Huddersfield asked
the conference to go further
but failed to win approval for a
commitment of providing suf-
ficient housing- to eliminate
homelessness within 12
months. He wanted to put
teeth into the motion, he said,
and a pledge from the party to
do something.

Francis David from Mon-
mouth railed for a policy of
putting an increase of Ip on
income tax to be devoted to
housing.

Baroness Seear disagreed.
The electorate had said they
supported the Liberal Demo-
crats' policy at die last election
of a lp tax rise for education,
but they had not backed it in
the ballot box.

AMID indications that
Germany has persuaded Italy
and Spain to puB out of the
European fighter aircraft
project, the Liberal Democrat
conference yesterday unex-
pectedly backed the defence
secretary Malcolm Rifkmd's
commitment to the project
(Sheila Gunn writes).

A few years ago it would
have been unheard for Liber-
als to side with a Conservative
government’s plan to spend
h ill inns on a sophisticated
new fighter plane.

Yesterday speakers from
Avon, Lancashire and Edin-
burgh made successful pleas
for support as jobs in their
areas depend on the project
Although some representa-
tives moved for a rethink of
the pro-EFA stance, at the end
of the day they were soundly

defeated. Menzies Campbell
the party’s defence spokes-
man. appeared to influence
many waverers by a last-
minute plea for full support to
increase his authority to
speak for the project in the
Commons. He did not believe
Germany’s decision was
irrevocable.

Anne Smith from Fylde said
it would economic folly for
Britain to pull out of EFAand
would jeopardise the jobs of
50,000 highly skilled employ-
ees at British Aerospace in the
region. Anthony Williams,
chairman of Westminster
North constituency party,
described the pro-EFA mo-
tion as “wrongheaded, self-
interested and incoherent".

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for ‘new j
order’ ;

Sir David SteeL the Liberal,
Democrat foreign affairs
spokesman, yesterday con-
demned Britain's "back-
ward-looking” stance on
foreign policy and called
for a more positive ap-
proach in creating “a new
world order” (Arthur
Leathley writes).

Sir David deplored the
reduction in the proportion
of British wealth spent on
overseas aid. He called on
the government to reach
the UN target of 0.7 per
cent of GNP- by the end of
the current parliament

His proposals included
the establishment of new
criteria by which the UN
could challenge the sover-
eignty of member states for
human rights violations.
"We must move from UN
peacekeeping forces to UN
peacemaking forces.”

The proposals were con-
tained in the party’s green
paper on international in-
stitutions. Beyond the Na-
tion Score. Although they
were endorsed, several
speakers opposed plans tq
include Japan as a penpal
nent member of the sec]
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whelmingly agreed to sun
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time permanent electioii
agents was deferred. Tonj
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organisers and agents as
sotiation. said that agent}
in high-profile seats shouic
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Giscard makes a last

lament for ‘yes’ vote

From Charles Bremner in Paris

THE lights may not yet be
going out all over Europe, but
you could sense the gloom
around the dinner tables in
Vincennes as Valery Giscard
d’Estaing, the former presi-
dent and ardent advocate of
the Community, rose to sound
his lament.

“What image win France be
giving the world if our country
demolishes with its own hand
40 years’ work constructed
with patience, determination
and courage?" M Giscard
d’Estaing asked of 2.500 dig-
nitaries and supporters of ms
opposition centre-right UDF
grouping. He recalled how
Konrad Adenauer, the late
German chancellor, had
described to him with tears in
his eyes, his first meeting with
De Gaulle in the days when
European political union was
little more than a pipe dream.

A “no" vote would turn back
the docks and mean that “we
wfl] not see a single European
currency in our lifetimes . . .
We have to vote ‘yes’ to save
the image of France," said M
Giscaid d’Estaing, speaking
as the man who. in the 1970s,
launched the European mone-
tary system with Helmut
Schmidt, then the West Ger-
man chancellor, and started
the summits later known as
the European Council.

The occasion was the culmi-
nation of M Giscard d’Es-
taing’s drive to rally France’s
political centre and right be-
hind a “yes" in die Socialist
president’s referendum on
Sunday. But everything about
the well-mannered scene in
the Parc Floral in the Bois de
Vincennes, on the eastern
edge of Paris, testified to the
dialogue of the deaf which has
characterised the campaign.

A sea of Hermes ties, Cartier
watches and women with their
hair up signalled a convoca-
tion of the BCBG ( bon chic
bon genre) — the well-heeled
Parisians who fill the upper
ranks of the UDF. They are a
force far removed from the
rougher-hewn opponents of
Maastricht, who have flocked

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to the political extremes and to
the “Three Musketeers." of
the mainstream right, Charles
Pasqua, Philippe Sfiguin and
Philippe de viuiere.

“Did you see their show last
Saturday? What a spectacle."
asked a businessman, refer-
ring to the Ameri can-style
rally attended by 6.000 hoot-
ing and cheering “no" voters.
“You’ll find us far more re-
served." His neighbour then
interrogated the waiter loudly
on his voting intentions.
“ ‘Yes’, of course," the waiter
said. “Good for you,” the lady
replied.

Allied by uncomfortable cir-
cumstance with tiie Mitter-
rand campaign. M Giscard
d’Estaing’s army stands for
the enlightened classes which
believe in Europe and are
appalled at the populist cam-
paigners who have harnessed
the national resentment
against Maastricht and are
scenting victory. Co mm en tar
tors are likening thetwu sides
to the Girondins and the Jaco-
bins of the Revolution; the
enlightened bourgeoisie
against- the champions of the
aD-powerful nation state.

“It’s rather sad," said Jean-
Luc Morte vice-president of
the Paris city ooundL “There
is so much misunderstanding,
so much extraneous nonsense
is being brought into -the
derision. Even my mother says
she can't understand the treaty
and cant stand Mitterrand so
she wants to vote “no*. I've told
her not to." M Morin’s tone of
resignation can be heard
throughout the “yes" cam-
paign among government

Waigel defends
intervention

by Bundesbank

From Ian Murray in bonn

GROWING suggestions
that the Bundesbank has
compromised its fiercely
guarded independence by
becoming involved in a deal
with the Kohl government
and the European Com-
munity shocked German
commentators yesterday.

In the European parlia-
ment at Strasbourg. Theo
Waigel the German fi-
nance minister, denied that
the Bundesbank had acted
under political pressure in
propping up the lira and
shaving interest rates. The
aim had been to stabilise
the markets and be did not
envisage a further realign-
ment of the European mon-
etary system. The Bundes-
bank had taken a “sov-
ereign decision".

Many in Bonn, however,
argue that the bank began
to bow to political pressure
as early as the rush to
German unification, when
against its better economic
judgment it underwrote
German monetary union at
a level that Kari-Otto PohL
who was then Bundesbank
president, described as di-
sastrous. The economic
chaos flowing from unifica-
tion has shown the bank’s
judgment to have been
correct, so there is consider-
able concern now that, in
surrendering to the politi-
cians again, the hank’s
ability to protect the mark
has been compromised.

The financial daily
Handelsblatt said that it
would be fatal if “the
defenders of our currency”
were suspected trf receiving
instructions from politi-
cians. “it would damage
the bank's reputation for
maintaining stable policies
and its credibility, which

have in the past been above

reproach." The papa- said
that the bank would face
even more political pres-
sure as European political
and monetary union came
closer. The bank must re-
sist that, it said, to prevent
“doubts running riot"
about the independent of
the European central bant

Most newspapers
seemed to think that the
bank was no longer mde-
anyway- The

convinced that the Bun-
desbank had surrendered,
adding that anyone who
seriously believed that a
European central bank
would be independent was
"a hopeless optimist”. Die
Welt said: “This is agolden
day. for the stock markets,
but a black day for the
Bundesbank"

It has emerged that the
Bundesbank tried last week
to force the British govern-
ment to lower the value of
sterling in exchange for
lower interest rates.
Sources here say that the
tiny, quarter-point cut in
rates would have been
higher if the pound had

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been devalued with the lira
last weekend.

The independent central
hank would also have liked -
to see the French- franc
included in a big realign-
ment of the EMS. Had that
happened, sources say, the
bank was ready to slash
rates by anything up to the
two percentage points for
which other members of
the EMS have been calling.

Informed sources here
say the idea was fleshed out
during a secret meeting last
Friday when Helmut Kohl
die chancellor, and Herr
Waigel flew to Frankfurt to
see Helmut Schlesinger,
the bank president Both
sides were anxious for a
deaL Herr Schlesinger had
become alarmed at the vast
amounts the bank was hav-
ing to pump into the sys-
tem in order to prop up the
weak currencies. Ttw chan-
cellor and Herr Waigel
under pressure to persuade
the bank to cut rates, said
they were ready to use their
influence inside the EC to
force a realignment

The fact that negotia-
tions continued until the
last minute is shown by the
way in which the realign-
ment was freed through a
series of telephone calls on
Sunday, rather than by
holding a special council in
Brussels on the Saturday,
the time-honoured method
of fixing new EMS ex-
change rates.

and opposition. At the next
dinner table. Simone Veil the
former president of the Euro-
pean Parliament, spoke of
what she saw as the destructive
frenzy of the dissident Gaull-
ists and M de Villieis. the
UDFs own rogue campaign-
er. “They’re like children kick-
ing down sandcastles.”
Europe, she said, is a fairy tale
and “right now some evD
fairies are hovering over
Europe ... If the ‘no 1 wins,
nobody wfll be talking about
Europe any more, but about
the battles of centuries past."

In the final days of the
campaign, with opinion polls
banned, history has settled
heavily over the Maastricht
debate, pushing aside party
point-scoring. For the anti-
treaty “Jacobins”, the survival
of France is at stake. M
Giscaid d’Estaing has provid-
ed the most eloquent advocacy
for Maastricht, arguing tire-
lessly that deeper union is the
only way to rise above destruc-
tive nationalism and ensure
future glory for France.

Rallying the faithful: Val6ry Giscard d’Estaing, leader of France's centre-
right UDF party, addressing a pro-Maastricht rally in Vincennes yesterday

Amato woos union

chiefs as lira falls

from John Phillips in rome

THE lira slumped again yes-
terday. only 48 hours after
devaluation, as Giuliano
Amato, the prime minister,
was meeting with trade union
leaders to try and defend his
anti-inflation agreement.

The Bankof Italy was forced
to sell marks on foreign ex-
change markets in renewed
speculation two days after the
7 per cent devaluation of the
embattled currency. The pres-
sure on the lira followed
unsubstantiated market Tu-
mours that Signor Amato had
resigned, and appeared to
confirm fears that Sunday's
realignment may not have
gone for enough, economists
said. The lira was believed to
be overvalued by about 25 per
cent before the devaluation.

In the senate, where parlia-
mentarians are to vote today
on ratification of the Maas-
tricht treaty, the fragile four-
party government coalition of
Socialists, Christian Demo-
crats. Social Democrats and
Liberals suffered its first defeat
on its economic programme,
designed to slash the huge
budget deficit
Rebels from the govern-
ment’s ranks joined forces
with former communists to
pass by six votes an amend-

ment to a government bill
introducing a new property
tax. The amendment meant
that the legislation will apply'
only to homeowners, not ten-
ants. Last night, the tipper
chamber was expected to vote
on approving a measure to
reform the finance of Italy’s
“golden" pension system, the
national health system, local
government budgets and the
pay structure of civil servants.

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on Italy.

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may renege on an agreement
reached in July, abolishing the
system of indexed wages that
had been a principal cause of
inflation in Italy for 47 tears.

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British units prepare for ‘operation unknown’ in Bosnia

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THE mission of 1.300 British
troops to be sent to Bosnia-
Herzegovina next month as
part of the United Nations
protection force has been ap-
propriately codenamed Oper-
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commanders. However, the
wording of the rules, as set
down by Boutros Boutros

British commanders will be able
to retaliate against attacking local
militias, Michael Evans, Defence
Correspondent writes

Ghali. the UN secretary-gen-
eral. will entitle die command-
er, if he sees fit. to order troops
and armoured vehicles to
leave the road used by any
conypy they are protecting and
retaliate against local militia
who attack or threaten to
attack humanitarian relief lor-
ries. Here lies die potential for
“grappling” with the enemy.

The UN reinforcements will
consist of the British. 1.200
each from Canada and France
and 400. possibly 800. from
Spain. There will also be
support elements from Den-
mark. Belgium. The Nether-
lands and Portugal, bringing
the total to about 6,000. The
British will be folly operation-
al within 40 days.

The first task is to deride on

Peacekeepers will
attack if gunmen
thwart security role

From James Bone in newyork and 11m Judah in Belgrade

THE United Nations force in
Bosnia-Herzegovina will in-
crease fivefold in the ooming
weeks after the security council
voted to send up to 6,000
more troops to protea aid con-
voys and freed prisoners of
war there.

A resolution was adopted
12-0 late on Monday, with
China. India and Zimbabwe
abstaining. Boutros Boutros
Ghali. the UN secretary-gen-
eral. said the troops “would
follow normal peacekeeping
rules of engagement” and
“would thus be authorised to
use force in self-defence". He
added: “It is to be noted that,
in this context, self-defence is
deemed to indude situations
in which armed persons at-
tempt by force to prevent UN
troops from carrying out their
mandate.”

India and Zimbabwe sup-
ported sending more troops,
but abstained because of a
reference in the resolution to

UNITED NATIONS

the earlier authorisation of the
use of force to get aid through
the war zone. Li Daqyu.
China's ambassador, said the
force risked plunging into
armed conflict Dr Boutros
Ghali agreed to place the new
troops under UN command
after the eight European coun-
tries contributing troops
agreed to pay for the new
force, rather than making
further demands on the UN
peacekeeping budget

The bulk of the new troops
will come from Britain.
France. Canada and Spain,
with smaller contingents from
Belgium. Denmark. The
Netherlands and Portugal.
They will work in tandem with
the 1.500 UN peacekeepers
from Egypt France and
Ukraine already in Sarajevo.

The new UN force will
protea only those aid convoys

French general to
lead UK troops

By James Bone

it is asked to guard by the UN
High Commissioner for Refu-
gees, which hopes to be able to
expand its relief effort The
troops wiU also escort freed
prisoners of war to safety if
asked to do so by the Red
Cross.

Yesterday President Izet-
begovic of Bosnia agreed that
Haris SDajdzic. tire republic’s
foreign minister, would attend
peace talks in Geneva on Fri-
day, reversing an earlier deci-
sion not to send a Bosnian
government delegation while
Bosnian rides were under
attack. But Ejup Ganic. a
member of the Bosnian presi-
dency, said the move was
made under duress. Cyrus
Vance, the UN peace envoy,
on Monday issued a declara-
tion practically ordering the
predominantly Muslim gov-
ernment to honour a promise
to show up.

Yesterday Serb tanks were
reported to be razing houses in
the Sarajevo suburb of Stop.
Bosnian officials said yester-
day morning that 28 people
had died in the city in the past
24 hours.

The UN security council
resolution passed on Monday
night omitted any reference to
possible UN supervision of

THE British troops sent to
join the newly enlarged Uni-
ted Nations peacekeeping
force in Bosnia-Herzegovina
will be placed under the
command of a French
general.

Although details of the de-
ployment of the estimated
1 .800 British troops have not
yet been finalised, diplomats
say that Major General Phi-
lippe Morillon. deputy head of
the UN Protection Force
(Unprofor) in the former Yu-
goslav republics, will assume
command of all UN peace-
keeping forces in Bosnia-
Herzegovina.

Working under General
Satish Nambiar, the Indian
who is overall head of
Unprofor in both Bosnia-
Herzegovina and Croatia.
General Morillon will orga-
nise the 6.000 new UN troops
into four sectors to supplement
the 1.500 UN troops already
in Sarajevo.

General Morillon is an en-
gineer and tank officer who
has spent much of his career in
staff positions. He becomes
the first French officer to
command British troops since-
Marshal Foch in the first
world war. He was appointed
commander of the first
Armoured Division in 1989
and then, as general, appoint-
ed chief of staff to the com-
manding general of the First
Army.

He made the headlines last
week when he denounced the
Bosnians for attacking his
men. He called the attack “a
dear provocation by people
who are enormously upset by
the possibility of peace and
determined to remain at war”.

When he has organised the
four seaons. Britain. France.
Spain and Canada will each
assume responsibility for one
of them, with Britain, the
largest troop contributor. like-
ly to get the largest sector.
Each country will deploy an
infantry battalion group, in-
cluding headquarters staff,
two armoured reconnaissance
companies, two armoured in-
fan fry companies, and an
engineer sub-unit for route
and mine clearance.

Belgium, Denmark. The
Netherlands and Portugal win
contribute smaller numbers of
support troops to the opera-

heavy weapons in Bosnia and
itu muuAim ^! made only passing mention of
W WHIM Wffl; ; -1 the ban on military flights
agreed at last month's London
conference. Diplomats say a
further security council resolu-
tion imposing a “no-fly zone"
is likely.

Britain. France and Bel-
gium plan to challenge the
right of the SertHed rump
state in Belgrade to take
Yugoslavia’s seat at the United
Nations. The resolution would
leave the Yugoslav seal empty,
but would not expel the Bel-
grade authorities from the
United Nations. The Euro-
pean nations hope thus to
avert a Russian veto.

• Pelting: Milan Panic, the
prime minister of the rump of
Morillon: following in the Yugoslavia, said here yester-
fooLsteps of Marshal Foch day that China had agreed to

send his country humanitar-
including a 500-man ian aid. He was hoping it
port battalion with about would also agree to send ofl for
orries. a medical evacua- heating homes and hospitals.

transport battalion with about
1 00 lorries, a medical evacua-
tion team, a signals unit, an
engineer bridging company
and SO military observers.

Final details of the deploy-
ment are io be discussed this
week in Zagreb with officials
from the UN High Commis-
sion for Refugees, which will
organise the convoys that the
troops will proiecL Once the
UNHCR has defined the mis-
sion. military planning will
begin in earnest. Western
military officials have as yet no
dear idea about how long it
will take to deploy the new
troops.

The boundaries of the four
zones have not yet been
drawn, although the United
Nations has mentioned Banja
Luka. Bihac. Doboj. Gorazde.
Mostar, Turia and Vitez as
possible centres.

Boutros Boutros Ghali. the
UN secretary-general, has pro-
posed that the expanded
peacekeeping force in Bosnia-
Herzegovina should have its
headquarters in Sarajevo,
However, some of the coun-
tries involved question the
wisdom of placing the head-
quartets in the war-tom Bosni-
an capital, which is under
heavy shellfire and is often
inaccessible to aircraft because
of fighting. They would prefer
the headquarters to be estab-
lished near Bosnia's northern
border with Croatia, part of
which abuts an existing UN
zone inside Croatia.

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the concept of operations and
the locations for the four
national battalion groups. To
this end. each contributing
nation is to send a planning
team to Zagreb for a meeting
Tomorrow with General Satish
Nambiar, the Indian com-
mander of die UN protection
forces in Croatia and Bosnia.

The British team will be led
by Brigadier David Jenkins,
director of military operations,
and Major-General Geoff
Field, director-general of logis-
tic policy (army). Senior
defence ministry sources yes-
terday underlined the impor-
tance of clarifying exactly what
the soldiers on the ground will
be expected to do and bow
they will be expected to react in
threatening situations.

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This is to ensure that there
will be no repetition of the
incident last week when
French troops escorting a re-
lief convoy were fired on by
machineguns. and lost two of
their number without making
any move to seek out those
responsible. The ministry
sources said it was imperative
that the British soldiers felt
able to use their weapons in

retaliation for an attack and to
pre-empt an attack if one
seemed imminent. This would
include, they said, going after
anyone who fired mortar
shells on convoys from hidden
locations.

The British soldiers win
consist of the 1st Battalion
Cheshire Regiment, strength-
ened by the 2nd Battalion
Royal Irish Regiment, a

squadron from 9/12 Lancers,
engineers from 35 Royal En-
gineers, who will be responsi-
ble for construction tasks and
clearing mines from convoy
routes, and logistic support
from the Royal Corps of
Transport and the Royal Ord-
nance Corps.

The Cheshires. commanded
by Lieutenant-Colonel Bob
Stewart are not going to
Bosnia with a war establish-
ment as was the case with the
regiments deployed to the
Gulf. However, the battalion
group will be sufficiently well
armed to pose a potent threat
to any militia which tries to
prevent the troops carrying out
their UN mandate. Apart
from Warrior infantry fight-
ing vehicles, which will be
protected with Chobham ar-
mour and have 30mm can-
nons, the battle group win
have Milan anti-tank missiles,
82mm mortars and Scimitar
armoured reconnaissance ve-
hicles. Many of the Warriors
were used by the Staffordshire
Regiment during the Gulf
war.

At present there are no

plans to send helicopters but if
the planning team in Zagreb
or the recce party, led by
Colonel Stewart which leaves
for Bosnia next week, decide
they are needed. Britain could
provide Gazelles for recon-
naissance and observation.

The ministry sources
emphasised that the intention
was not to blast a way through
hostile areas but to rely on
negotiation by the representa-
tives of the UN High Commis-
sion for Refugees, who are
responsible for planning the
routes of the convoys and
arranging access with the local
warlords.

The second task which has
been given die British soldiers
is to provide protection for
prisoners who are released.
This was not part of the
original concept and it is not
yet dear how this will work. “A
lot of detailed planning still
has to be carried out," one
ministry source said.

An effective command-and-
controf network is also crudaL
The plan at present is for each
of the contributing countries
to be located in separate zones

Desert Rats
readied
to boost

UN forces

By Michael Evans

THE Cheshire Regiment, part
of the Desert Rats 7th
Armoured Brigade, will form
the core of foe 1.800-man
battalion group to be dis-
patched from Germany to
Bosnia-Herzegovina. The bat-
talion group will boost the
United Nations military pres-
ence guarding humanitarian
relief convoys to Sarajevo and
other towns under siege.

Based at Falllngbostel in
northern Germany, the regi-
ment whose motto is “I Serve"
has been on standby for
deployment since John Major
announced last month that
Britain was to send up to
1,800 troops for UN duties.
The regiment's strength is
650 men and its role is to act
as armoured infancy.

The regiment, which has a

300-year history, is command-
ed by Lieutenant Colonel Bob
Stewart and has only recently
been equipped with Warrior
infantry fighting vehicles,
armed with 30mm cannon,
and is new to the armoured
infantry role. Eight months
ago. it was based in Chester as
a general purpose unit
equipped with Land Rovers
and other wheeled vehicles. It
then went to Germany fold
took over the armoured infan-
try role from The Staffordshire
Regiment Since being put on
standby for duty in the Yugo-
slav conflict the regiment has
been training to act as armed
convoy escorts.

Lt Col Stewart is due to fly
next week as head of a
reconnaissance party of 12 to
examine routes for the convoys
and survey the location where
his troops will be based. The
Sandhurst-trained command-
er is regarded as an erudite
man and is highly respected.
Married with two children, li
Col Stewart 43.- served as
military attach^ to the Nafo
military committee in Brussels
before becoming commander
of die Cheshire Regiment in
March last year. He has also
served as a platoon command-
er with the Cheshires in Bah-
rain, Malaya. Berlin and
Northern Ireland.

The Cheshire Regiment
teamed with the other ele-

Bound for Bosnia: Lt Col Bob Stewart will lead a reconnaissance team

raents of the battalion group,
has been rehearsing For its
new role as armed convoy
escorts at the Sennelager com-
puterised command training
system. The regiment has
previously served several tours
in Northern Ireland and its
experience of south Armagh’s
“bandit country" will prove an
advantage in Bosnia, where
the soldiers will have to con-
front local warlords.

The regiment was first
formed as the Duke of Nor-
folk’s Regiment in 1 689. It is
claimed that the Cheshires
saved King George II from
being captured by the French

at Dettingen in 1743 by
protecting him under an oak
tree. The regimental badge,
an acorn and oak leaf, dates
from then. The king is said to
have plucked a twig from the
tree and handed it to the
soldiers, asking them to wear
the emblem in memory of
their gallant conduct
The Cheshires were also
part of the force engaged to
quell the Boxer rebellion in
Peking before seeing action in
the Boer war. It also served in
the great campaigns of the two
world wars. During the first
world war it took part in the
battle of Mons in 1914 and

gained honours in almost
every theatre of operations
from Flanders to Palestine.
The second world war desert
campaigns in North Africa
earned it the Desert Rat
sobriquet as it fought Rommel
and then took part in the
invasion of Italy.

The Cheshires are due to be
amalgamated with The Staf-
fordshire Regiment next year
under the government’s “Op-
tions for Change” defence
cuts. The regiment’s home
base at Dale Barracks was
built in 1 988; that was die first
time the soldiers were based in
their home dty.

with the individual battle
groups under their national
commanders, although re-
sponsible under the UN um-
brella to a two-star general to
be appointed for Bosnia, 'prob-
ably Frenchman General Phi-
lippe Morillon. and the overall
commander. General
Nambiar.

Ministry sources said the
role to be played by British
troops would be an evolving
one. “New challenges will
require new interpretations of
the UN rules of engagement
This is a different type of
mission and we will have io
learn as we go along.” one
source said. Sources hinted
they would like the British
battle group to be based ar
Bihac. bur this will have to be
negotiated during the meeting
in Zagreb.

The troops will fly to the
area, but their equipment will
be sent by sea; the whole
operation will cost £40 million.
The first year of deployment to
Bosnia will cost up to £90
million. The Cheshires expat
to be replaced after six
'months.

Milosevic
plots the
downfall

of Panic

from DessaTreyisan
and Tim Judah

IN BELGRADE

MILAN Panic the exuberant
Serb ian-Ameri can millionaire
prime minister of the rump
Yugoslavia, has overtaken
Slobodan Milosevic, the Ser-
bian president in opinion-poll
ratings. But while Mr Panic
now in Peking, is seeking
signs of international support
Mr Milosevic has launched a
scheme he hopes wfl] lead to
his opponent’s downfall.

Under the constitution of
the Yugoslavia of only Serbia
and Montenegro, power has
shifted from republican presi-
dents to foe federal prime
minister. By resuming his role
as leader of foe Socialist party.
Mr Milosevic could take over
Mr Panic’s position if the
party remains the largest in

parliament after November's
general elections.

Regional branches of the
Serbian Socialist party have
recently begun clamouring for
Mr Milosevic to become party
president again. He gave up
the job because the constitu-
tion forbids the Serbian presi-
dent from simultaneously
holding other posts.

In an attempt to counter Mr
Panic’s growing popular sup-
port, foe Serbian government
has decreed that, while sanc-
tions are in force workers
cannot be sacked, which has
led to a struggle for the mint
The government has printed
millions in worthless money to
pay workers who have no
work; Mr Panic argues that he
cannot run the economy with-
out control of the money
supply.

Mr Panic, who became
prime minister only two
months ago and has no polit-
ical organisation of his own.
has signalled that he would be
prepared to lead Serbia’s quar-
relsome opposition in Novem-
ber if asked. Vesna Pesic, the
leader of one small party, has
called on the rest of the
opposition to accept Mr Pan-
ic’s challenge.

Western policymakers can-
not lift sanctions without re-
sults to show for their
imposition and cannot apply
new ones without undermin-
ing foe prime minister.

Danger hides in border town half at peace, half at war

THE people of this surpris-
ingly attractive industrial
town perched on the border
of Croatia and Bosnia believe
the United Nations have
forgotten them.

Just like Sarajevo. Sla-
vonsld Brod is shelled every
day. on average once an hour
by Serbian gunners located
about three mOes to the
south, across the Sava river in
occupied Bosnia. It is also
subject to intermittent tank
fire and air raids.

Yesterday at eight minutes
to two precisely, the crump of
heavy artillery announced the
latest salvo directed at the
centre of the town where
scores of shops, homes and
offices have been wrecked.
The hospital reports that at
least 70 people, including 25
children, have been killed in
the dty since Man* and
hundreds more wounded. At
the Croatian information
centre, where staff await the
arrival of journalists travel-
ling foe deserted highway
from Zagreb, we crouched

-BEHIND THE LBfES

Citizens say the West forgot
northern Bosnia, Edward -
Gorman writes in Slavonski Brod

under the table as the
charges exploded near by.

The majority Croatian
community and foe Serb
minority here do not under
stand why UN monitoring
arrangements, now in place
in Sarajevo, Jajce and Bihac.
do not include Slavonski
Brod. the Croatian town that
is being attacked more than
any other.

Frano Piplovic. the presi-
dent of the town council, has
been forced to move his
offices out to a nearby village.
He believes that the UN and
the international community
generally have been tricked—
principally by Slobodan
Milosevic the Serbian presi-
dent — into ignoring foe war
in northern Bosnia and in

this border area to concen-
trate instead on the siege of
Sarajevo. “The EC and the
UN have been set up by
Milosevic’s trap," he said.
“Nobody knows about the
massacres of Bosnia and
Herzegovina in towns like
Tuzla, Banja Luka and dose
to Sarajevo."

One reason why Slavonski
Brod has been forgotten is
because it is not cut off from
its Croatian hinterland and
thus cannot daim to be fully
under siege. Nevertheless, it
is an eerie place, half at war
and half at peace. “You think
it is so wonderful and peace-
ful” said Sonja Lukic aged
26, whose husband is fight-
ing at the from. “And then
you hear some shooting and

it reminds you that you are in
the middle of the war.”

At the Arcade Bar. opposite
the hospital, foe windows are
boarded and covered fay
sandbags, but inside it, busi-
ness is booming. Dire Straits
and Cher's latest album take
rums on (he music system
that plays loud enough to
obscure the sound of incom-
ing artillery fire.

The customers include
wounded soldiers with ban-
dages around their heads
gingerly sipping orange juice,
exhausted fighters just back
from the front, and foe youth
of Slavonski Brod who have
elected not to Bghu dressed
for peace in Hawaiian shirts
and jeans. Vinko Barisic, 26.
the manager, sporting an ear
ring and a slicked hairstyle, is
one of those who has no
interest in taking part in the
killing. “War is for primitive
people.” he said. “War does
not make sense.”

The outlook for Slavonski
Brod is Weak. Nobody be-
lieves that its ordeal will end

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soon. Ivan Balen. the director
of the hospital where 13 new
patients arrive in the base-
ment operating theatre every
day. believes that the fighting
could last for up to three
years. “1 do not see any
possibility to end this," he
said. “I do not know how it
could happen because the
Serbs are so strong and they
have so much equipment.”

• Geneva: The International
Committee of the Red Cross
evacuated 68 sick and
wounded former inmates of
two notorious Serb-run
camps in Bosnia-Herzegovi-
na and flew them to Britain
for hospital care. Virtually all

were Slavic Muslim civilians,
rounded up as part of “ethnic
cleansing" in the former Yu-
goslav republic now mostly
controlled fay Serb rebels, a
Red Cross spokesman,
Claude Voillat, said.

Co-operation fay all sides in
foe Bosnian war made the
evacuation possible, the Red
Cross said. It followed their
agreement in London last
month on the unconditional
release of all civilian
detainees.

The Swiss-run committee,
which acts as an interznedi-
ary in war, said it regarded
the operation as “the first
step in this release process”.
Tbe agency said it still has
not received full details on
camp locations and prisoner
lists from foe three sides.

The prisoners were held at
foe Manjaca and Tmopoije
camps in northwestern Bos-
nia, M Voillat said. But the
spokesman had no details an
their ailments although he
said there were several “seri-
ous cases” (AP)

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SIX hundred thousand people
in the city of Sukkur in
Pakistan's Sind province,
where flood waters are expect-
ed to sweep ihrough tomor-
row. have been put on alert for
evacuation. The government
has already rescued half a
million people from other
flood threatened areas.

The Jhelum and Chenab
rivers are cascading south
after days of torrential rain,
wreaking destruction along
the way. They merge into the
Indus in southern Punjab,
and huge waves of water are
expected to reach there simul-
taneously. Meteorologists
have said a 60ft wail of water
could devastate the area. The
cities of Larkana and Oadu
are also on alert. A state of
emergency has been declared
throughout Sind.

The army has deployed
50.000 troops on engineering
schemes, mostly involving the
breaching of river banks to
spread the flood waters
around. Farmers, whose crops

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for end to
deadlock

from Michael Hamlyn
IN JOHANNESBURG -

NELSON Mandela, the presi-
dent of the African National
Congress, sounding much
more moderate than of late in
an interview, has called on
Pretoria to work with him to
"pull South Africa from the
quagmire".

Mr Mandela urges Presi-
dent de Klerk to compromise
by agreeing to a summit
meeting in spite of die deaths
at Bisho last week. Mr
Mandela expresses his deep
anxiety over the South African
economy, saying: "We want to
break the deadlock because if
we don't, I fear that the
economy is going to be so
destroyed: that when a demo-
cratic government comes into
power it will not be able to
salve it.”

Just three months ago the
ANC president told his policy-
making conference that the
economy was already in such
bad shape that nothing the
ANC could do in the way of
mass action could damage it
further. He told The Star in
Johannesburg, that he had
been frightened into changing
his mind by a "well-consid-
ered statement” from Derek
Keys, the South African fi-
nance minister.

have been ruined are furious,
saying tfiar they have been
sacrified to save cities life
Sukkur and Multan in south-
ern Punjab. Yesterday, more
than 500 villages were inun-
dated in Multan district, and
several others washed away.

There are fears that a bar-
rage in Sukkur, built by the
British in 1932, could be
swept aside, devastating Paki-
stan’s most fertile farmlands.
The barrage irrigates 215
million acres and is vital to the
country's economy.

The death toll in Pakistan-
ruled Azad (Free) Kashmir,
the Northwest Frontier Prov-
ince. and Punjab, is believed
to be more than 2.000 and
still rising. More than 300
villages along the banks of the
Indus have been eva cuated .
This is the worst flooding in
the country's recorded histoiy.

Azad Kashmir has borne
the brunt of the devastation,
with not a bridge still standing
nor a road intact Rivers
continue to burst their banks,
creating havoc as the deluge
moves through the country.

On the Indian side of Kash-
mir, thousands of people are
stranded because bridges
there, too, have been destroyed
and the death toll is rising.
Monsoon clouds last night'
threatened more ram on both
sides of the bonder.

The Pakistan government
has been widely accused of
incompetence in its handling
of the crisis so for. Some
politicians claim the BBC
World Service had issued
flood warnings three days
before the official radio and
television stations warned of
the dangers. A newsreader
who hinted at an official cover-
up of the blunders is said. to
have been removed from his
job. President Ishaq Khan has
called the flooding a national
calamity.

A village on an island in the
Jhelum river in Kashmir was
swept away, killing most of the
4 SO inhabitants. Islamabad,
the capital and the neigh-
bouring city of Rawalpindi
have been battered severely.

The devastating impact of
the floods in Punjab, even if it
got no worse, is already an
economic disaster. Vital canal
networks are threatened, pos-
ing grave damage to crops
and people. Punjab, tire most
populous and richest of the
provinces, is the breadbasket
of Pakistan. The Punjab flood
relief commission said that

900.000 acres of cotton had
been destroyed, and about

50.000 acres of maize,

400.000 acres of rice and

45.000 acres of vegetables
severely affected. Government
agencies have estimated that
at least two million acres of
cropland had been damaged
up to Monday night

Relief camps have been
established and the Pakistan
air force is dropping supplies
to standed villages. The floods
could have a serious politia)
fallout for Mian Nawaz Sha-
rif, the prime minister, whose
popularity has been plunging.
Benazir Bhutto, the opposition
leader, who has been staging a
comeback two years after
being ousted from power,
accused the government of
criminal negligence.

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Defence spending cuts are
put under election spotlight

From Associated Press in Washington

Fears linger after
Lima rebel’s arrest

From Ben Maontvre in lima

PRESIDENT Bush and Bffi
Clinton both told a military
group yesterday that cuts in
defence spending are needed •
but that the United States
must remain the world’s top
militaiy power.

Mr Bush told the annual
National Guard Association
convention in Salt Lake City.
Utah, that as long as he is
president the American armed
forces will remain “the best
trained, best led, best
equipped fighting forces in the
world”. He said that the world
remained a dangerous place.
The “Russian bear” may be
gone, but threats remained.

He criticised his rival. Bill
Clinton, for advocating de-
fence cuts of $60 billion (£3 1 .7
billion) more than his own.
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“didn't come here” to attack
Mr Clinton for avoiding the
Vietnam draft 23 years ago,
but questions about Mr Clin-
ton's draft status mattered to
voters because “we can never
forget that we ask our presi-
dent to lead the militaiy”. Mr
Bush spoke of his experience

Peking boycotts Middle
East arms control talks

By David Watts, diplomatic correspondent

CHINA has announced that it
will boycott multilateral talks
on Middle East arms control.

If it implements its decision
— a response to American
plans to sell jet fighters to
Taiwan — increased Chinese
arms sales to Iran could be the
result

President Bush's dedsion to
change a long-standing policy
of not arming opponents of
Peking has enraged the Chi-
nese leadership because for
the first time it would give the
Nationalist Chinese air force
the capability of. delivering
nuclear weapons. The Ameri-
cans argue that a Chinese

order for Russian-made
Sukhoi Su27 Flanker jet fight-
ers justifies the presidential
decision that came in response
to Mr Bush’s flagging for-
tunes in Texas where the 150
FI 6 jets will be made.

Lawrence Eagleburger. act-
ing US Secretary of State, said:
“I think they ought to be very
cautious about how they react
(to the Taiwan sale] because
they are. after all, involved in
what is a pretty complicated
international process and they
need to understand that there
are consequences to them as
well as to everybody else if they
react badly.”

as a pilot during foe second
world war and as commander
in chief during the Gulf war,
saying he thought he was
better qualified to lead the
nation at times of crisis.

Mr Clinton made no men-
tion of the draft issue. He said
that if elected he would make
sure the country had the
strength and resolve to ensure
victory in any conflict He
echoed Mr Bust's. line that
although the former Soviet
Union was no longer a threat
unpredictable threats re-
mained, mentioning Presi-
dent Saddam Hussein of Iraq,
terrorism, regional dashes,
and nudear proliferation. He
defended his larger defence
cut proposals, saying that they
were only 5 per cent more
than the president’s proposals.

Ross Perot the business-
man who dropped out of the
presidential race, said yester-
day that the economic strate-
gies offered by both cand-
idates were not specific
enough and urged them to
present "hard plans that
people will buy”. He added:
“The thing they always under-
estimate is how smart the
American people are. The
American people understand
what is going on. They under-
stand shams and finesses . . .”

A Washington Post-ABC
News poll published yesterday
indicated chat one in six voters
would cast their ballots for Mr
Perot even though he sus-
pended his campaign in July.
The figures were Mr Clinton,
45 per ant; President Bush.
33 per ant: and Mr Perot. 1 6
per ant Without Mr Perot as
a choice, the figures were Mr
Clinton. 54 per ant and Mr |
Bush 39 percent.

IN THE sprawling shanty
towns that surround Lima, foe
news that Abimael Guzm&n,
the brutal leader of the
Sendero Luminoso (shining
path) communist guerrillas,
now languishes in jail has
prompted a variety of reac-
tions: fear of retaliation by the
insurgents mixed with cau-
tious relief.

Some simply do not believe
that after more than 12 years
of violence and the death of
about 27,000 people, Latin
America’s most feared terror-
ist is finally behind bars.

In Villa El Salvador, a
shanty town on the edge of
Lima. Valentin is convinced
that the corpulent, bearded
figure being paraded shirtless
on Peruvian television is not
Guzmin. 57. but a police
stooge. “He would never sub-
mit to this indignity." Valentin
maintains before changing
tack abruptly. “Maybe he is
drugged. Yes. they probably
drugged him.”

The confusion reflects the

Guzman: captured leader
of terror campaign

mythical aura, part fear, pan
admiration, that has built up
around die shining path lead-
er. Even now. shambolic and
blinking under the police cam-
eras. self-styled "president
Gonzalo”. the Maoist fanatic
and former philosophy profes-
sor, evokes terror in many
Peruvians because of his pow-
er to kilL

President Fujimori told a
news conferena yesterday
that he would consider execut-
ing Guzman. “We must listen
to what the public demands.”
he said.

In recent years, poverty-
striken neighbourhood such
as Villa El Salvador have
bo me the brunt of the commu-
nist insurgency in Peru, in line
with Maoist revolutionary ide-
ology. More than half of the
293 terrorist attacks that took
place in July occurred in Lima
and. according to the polia
the shining path antral com-
mittee recently transferred its
centre of operation from the
Andean Highlands to the
lima suburbs, a move that
proved disastrous when 14
members of the group, includ-
ing Guzman and other key
leaders, were arrested here on
Saturday night

“Most people here are re-
lieved that Guzman has been
captured.” a Western human
rights worker who has worked
in Lima’s shanty towns said.
“but they can’t take any
chances."

“There will be violence," a
young woman said, “much
violence.” That is ‘ a view
shared by most j>eople in Pem.
including politicians who have
repeatedly warned of probable
retaliation by the wounded
terrorist movement

Looters raise Somalia’s starvation toll

A GROUP of starving Soma-
li s gathered to stare indiffer-
ently at the corpse of one of
their Raha Weyn tribesmen
who had collapsed and per-
ished in the dusr outside the
small hospital run by one
doctor in Baidera, the head-
quarters of General Muham-
mad Farrah Aidid, Somalia’s
leading warlord.

"Who is going to buiy this
man?” they were asked. An
onlooker so starved he could
hardly stand waved an un-
steady hand to a group of
gunmen gathered outside the
building used as a store for the
United" Nations Children’s
Fund which supplies the hos-
pital with porridge to feed rts
patients. "Those men should
be doing it but they are bu^.
he said. .

The gunmen were fit ana
healthy" teenagers toting a
variety of machineguns. Some
of them, arrogantly slouched
over the barrel of a lObmm
pack howitzer mounted on a
Jeep, were helping ihemsdycs
to a divcn sacks of the Unicef
porridge intended to save the
vast number of children at
death’s door. , .

The scenario is typical cm
Somalia where, because of the
20-month civil war that has

From Sam Kiley in baidera

starving Soma- reduced the country to anar-
stare in differ- chy, at least two million people

are facing immediate death
from starvation and another
2.5 million have a few months
to live.

Earlier in the same day. a
lorry was carrying food sup-
plied by the International
Committee of the Red Cross
and intended for a remote
village near the western town
of Baidoa. A group of about
SO gunmen armed with RPG-
7 anti-tank rockets languidly
looted the truck, thereby en-
suring the deaths of perhaps a
couple of hundred more
people. In Baidoa. about 400
die eveiy day.

General Aidid. leader of a
coalition of four armies known
as the Somali National Alli-
ance. insisted during an inter-
view in a luxuriously
appointed house in Baidera
that aid agencies could distrib-
ute food safely in the country
and that the lootings were
"isolated incidents carried out
by uncontrolled dements”.

Bui the only armed men in
Baidoa and Baidera are his
men. The United Nations
Security Council is intending
to send 3,000 troops to protect
humanitarian relief opera-
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cannot do so without the
agreement of the various war-
lords who are both profiting
from the Somali holocaust
and by so doing ensuring dial
ft will continue until there are
no Somalis left to feed.

“We do not need any more
soldiers from the UN (in
addition to 500 Pakistanis, the
firet of whom arrived this week
to control the capital's port
and airport)- We have an
excellent and well trained
police force and we can ensure
security with our own people.”
said the general, a slightly
overweight 56-year-old. “So-
malia is a sovereign nation
and we do not warn interfer-
ence from the UN."

Like his arch-enemy and
fellow member of the Habre
Gedir dan, Ali Mahdi Mu-
hammad, who occupies one
suburb of the capital. Mogadi-
shu. but claims to be Somalia’s
president. General Aidid is
incapable of controlling his
own gunmen who rape and
steal wherever they go and
constantly harass aid workers.
The guards he supplied to
protect Raja Giopala
Krishnan, Care Internation-
al’s Indian head of food
distribution, helped them-
selves to three barrels of diesel
and gave it to 40 gunmen.
They abandoned the general
and headed for the port of
Kismayu where, they had
heard, the picking were richer.

“They had no right to do
that," said the general, who
had no way of stopping them.

All foe warlords of Somalia
ding to foe trappings of office.
The country must have half a
dozen "foreign ministers" and
General Aidid is planning to
sec up a visa office “to end free
access to foe country".

• London: Britain said yesier-
day that it will provide an extra
£7.5 million in aid for Soma-
lia. bringing hs total contribu-
tion to the country to £24
million this year. Lynda
Ghalker, overseas aid minis-
ter, announced the increase.

Japanese tune in as favourite
son pioneers science in space

From Joanna Pitman in Tokyo

R esidents of the tiny fish-
ing community of Yoichi
on Japan's northern island of
Hokkaido are proud to an-
nounce that they have finally
made their mark on the
universe. Mamoni Mori.
Yoichi's most famous son.
has become the first Japa-
nese to fly on a US spaa
mission, ami the second Japa-
nese astronaut ever to
achieve lift-off.

Ever since Mr Mori took
off from Cape Canaveral on
Saturday aboard the space
shuttle Endeavour. Japan has
been treated to a Wow by
Wow account of his every
sneeze, scratch and swallow.
On Monday pundits pro-
nounced on his Winking fre-
quency and yesterday dis-
cussed his choice of
breakfast prompting an-
guished discussion on com-
muter tr ains over whetherhis
much-televised face had be 1
come a little bloated.

But Japan was relieved on
Monday when Mr Mori
made a telephone call to his
wife and three children — and

the other 123 million Japa-
nese listening in. “Hello
Akika Ken. Taku and Yu.”he
said. “1 am enjoying my
flight. I am very busy with a
lot of work to do and I hope
you are all fine." Some of
Yoichi's 25.000 proud resi-
dents again donned their
mode spacesuits to celebrate
another day successfully com-
pleted in spaa by their most
distinguished neighbour.

E xcitement has been
buikimg in Yoichi's ele-
mentary school over foe pros-
pect this evening of a
televised interactive lesson
on weightlessness from Mr
Mori in space. Every self-
respecting five-year-old in
town has been boning up on
the finer points of the subject
Kiichi Miyazawa. the
prime minister, has arranged
to be in on the fun too, book-
ing his own personal tele-
phone cafl for Friday
afternoon.

Japan has been heavily
involved in this Nasa shuttle
launch, contributing $90 mil-

lion to the $363 million
venture, and the finest minds
of Japanese science have
worked for ten years to pre-
pare the experiments that Mr
Mori is now performing.

Research into spaa sick-
ness is his aim, and to that
end 30 live carp were flown to
foe Kennedy Spaa Centre in
Florida from a pond in an-
tral Japan in July, to take part
in a rigorous knockout com-
petition for inclusion in the
Endeavour’s tiring laborato-
ry. Of foe 23 that survived foe
flight from Tokyo. 16 carp
contestants made it to the
finals.

Two winners, both distin-
guished by their striking red
scales with white spots, were
selected, according to Shigeo
Mori, a professor from Na-
goya University, on the basis
of foeir “easily analysed
brain waves and their ability
to dispel hysteria when kept
in confined spaces”. Mr Mori
trill conduct 34 experiments,
testing foe effects of weight-
lessness on the winning
carps’ gravity sensing organs.

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Governor

briefs

Major

London: Chris Pancn. foe
governor of Hong Kong, yes-
terday outlined his plans for
the fo tore of foe colony to John
Major (David Watts writes).

Mr Patten is believed to
have discussed the electoral
system and the British re-
sponse today to Chinese pro-
posals for foe financing of foe
new airport, which is expected
to cost more than £! 1 billion.
Mr Patten is already on record
as wanting to advance foe
cause of democracy, much to
foe dislike of Pelting.

“It is well known that we are-
seeing greater participation in
Hong Kong. That is already
happening and it is written
into foe basic laws as well.”
Mr Patten said. He is sched-
uled to make a policy address
to foe colony’s legislature on
October 7.

Kohl attack

Bonn: Helmul Kohl, the Ger-
man chancellor, strongly con-
demned skinhead gangs and
those who clapped' and
cheered as they beat up for-
eigners. "They are a disgrace
for our country, and that is
how the vast majority of Ger-
mans feel." he said.

Nuclear barrier

Panmunjom: Chung Won
Shik. South Korea’s' prime
minister, told North Korea
that relations between them
cannot progress unless nuc-
lear disputes are resolved. His
speech pointed up the South’s
pessimism about this week's
bilateral talks. (.IP)

Army orders

Peking: China’s army, which
killed hundreds of unarmed
civilians when it opened fire
on demonstrators here in
1989. has ordered that any
future unrest should be
stopped with minimum fora.
Warnings and baton charges
are to be used first.

Pact agreed

Istanbul: Ismet Sezgin. the
Turkish interior minister, re-
turned from Tehran with an
Iranian promise of co-opera-
tion in the fight against Kurd-
ish separatists. In exchange.
Ankara will be expected to
curb foe activities of Iranian
exiles.

KGB ‘smear’

Moscow: Kazimiera Pruns-
kiene. the former prime minis-
ter of Lithuania, rejected a
court finding that she had
been an agent of foe KGB.
Mrs Prunskiene said the
charge was part of a right-
wing smear campaign ahead
of next month's elections.

Children saved

Dhaka: Bangladeshi police
detained a woman who works
in Dubai when she tried to
board an aircraft with wo
children who were to be sold
as camel jockeys in the Middle
East. Eight other children
were freed and six other
people detained. (Reuter)

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The fanatical
free marketeers

Bryan \ppleyard is appalled to
hear the views of young graduates

P ersonally, of course, I regret
everything. But occasionally
there are things one does of
such rare, intense folly that they
stand out horn die usual wash of
regrettable phenomena. This one
involves the Conservative party. or -
more precisely, that strange and
terrible sub-group the Young
Conservatives.

At the weekend I took part in a
debate about religion, morality and
the state with a group known as
Conservative Graduates. On my
side was Anne Widdecombe, the
social services minister, who insist-
ed, plausibly. 1 think, that the
rapidly rising number of single
parent families was the most urgent
welfare problem of our day. They
drain resources and, all die evi-
dence suggests, they bring up a
much higher proportion of delin-
quent and unstable children.

Certainly, she acknowledged, the
welfare state may have done much
to promote this problem. Housing

priorities and ben-

efits for single
mothers may well,
have encouraged
girls to use preg-
nancy as an eco-
nomically viable
way of leaving
home. But what
could be done? It
may accord with
Conservative mo-
rality and preju-
dices to force
people to act re-
sponsibly, but cut-
ting benefits at this
stage would lead to
children begging
on the streets. Be-
fore us were a hun-
dred or so rather shiny, rather
privileged young Tories, presum-
ably. given die venue, aspirant
MPs. The most vociferous group
were men, dressed more or less
uniformly in blazers, ties, light
cotton trousers and big shoes.
“Preppy'’. I believe, was die fashion
keynote. At some point in their
education an idea had entered their
heads — only one idea, but one that
seemed to work in response to all
conditions.

This idea was that the only
possible, reasonable, meaningful
and efficient basis for aQ human
affairs was the free market The free
market as objective ruler of human
affairs, would right all wrongs,
overthrow tyranny, promote uni-
versal happiness, make you smell
nice and. almost certainly, inspire
the admiration of beautiful women.
Paradise lay at die end of a road of
ruthless market deregulation, mini-
malist government and abolition of
the welfare state.

From tiiis perspective Anne
Widdecombe’s tears for die child-
ren amounted to dangerously
liberal backsliding. AD that needed
to be done was a total dismantling
of the welfare state. Society would
adjust, working-class girls would
stop getting pregnant and the
underclass would shrink as the
welfare-crazed proletariat were
driven to make a decent living.

The first point to make about this
curious economic fundamentalism
is that it echoes precisely the
Trotskyism, Maoism, syndicalism
and all the other species of hard
socialism that gripped students in
the Sixties and Seventies. Both
ideologies are absolute, simple.

Their ruthless
views echo
the Trotskyism
and Maoism
that gripped
students in
the Sixties
and Seventies

unrealistic and breath takingly bru-
tal. Both have a powerful, purely
rhetorical logic and both obviate
die need for political nuance.

The second point is that neither
religion nor morality are involved.
Any mention of God brought jeers
of dissent from the preppies and
Anne Widdecombe’s insistence on
the innocence of the- children
prompted sullen incomprehension.
The minister, bang a politician,
tried to paper over this embarrass-
ing crack by defining self-help as
the basis of all conservative moral-
ity. But this was futile since the
audience was dearly too bigoted
and auel|y lacking in self-doubt for
the idea of morality to be remotely
convincing.

The roots of this new brutalism
are dearly enough the Thatcherism
of the Eighties. Lady Thatcher’s
free market instincts and all the
accompanying intellectual justifica-
tions have been embraced as defini-
tive. But the new right literature of
the Eighties has
been very selective-
ly edited. The oth-
er, more complex
area of thought
that these young
have blue-pencilled
in their minds con-
cerned the viability
of institutions, the
nature of educa-
tion and the sym-
bolism and coher-
ence of society —
none of which can
be debated by
minds wholly in
thrall to frewnar-
ket fundamental-
ism. The real right
the thoughtful
right, knows this. It also knows that
krieejerk triumphalism about the
destruction of socialist rationalism
is no longer enough. That battle
has been won. Arthur ScargQl is
now a down, not a dangerous
insurrectionist and Che Guevara is
long dead. What counts now is not
die defence of capitalism but its
definition, die containment of its
fragmentary tendencies and the
sustenance of die culture that
created it

Merely waving free-market ban-
ners and guffawing at God is a way
of avoiding all these problems.
Most urgently it is a way of
avoiding die — to the preppies —
painful truth that the free marks
frequently hears fruits that are
offensive to the free marketeers
themselves, such as children, beg-
ging on the streets or a depraved
popular culture. If you do not like
such tilings, it is dishonest not to try
and work out why, and dial leads
you far far away from simple,
biutalist economics.

But. of course, they were young
and they liked to dap and cheer at
big, simple ideas. If they do try to
become MPs it is unlikely their
absolutism win survive even the
first rungs of the selection process.
Self-interest in the Tory shires can
prove remarkably subtle and
strangely anti-libertarian.

We should leave die

Philip Howard bn the indiscreet letters of the poet who captured the bad joke of life

P hilip Larkin hit a nerve for
the postwar generationwith
his poetry of contemporary s
and distinctly unelejriac melan-
choly. resignation, spiky wit and
public confession of what most
people think, but few dare to admit
so disarmingly. The first selection
of his letters, coming from his
publisher. Faber, this autumn, is
going to strike nerves and funny-
bones all oyer the literary world.
Because they were not written for
publication, and because Larkin
was who he was, they are wonder-
folly indiscreet, wildly debunking,
rude, politically incorrect, and fulty-
frontaJ revealing. They fax more
abusive than the memoirs of his
chum and sparring partner, Sir
Kingsley Amis, funnier than those
of John Osborne, and far -more

Larkin from the grave

revealing than die dry, clerical

letters ofT.S. Eliot
Kingsley Amis was considered
unkind for publishing that Larkin
never' married because he was too
mean to go courting Larkin, who
died in 1985, got his own back with
a vengeance: The only reason I
hope to predecease him [Sir Kings-
ley], is that I’d find it impossible to
say anything nice about him at his

memorial service. 1 ’ it is sporting of
Faber to publish some of these
letters, for the firm is itself a regular
target for Larkin’s derision. Ted
[Hughes] die Incredible Hulk.
Seamus {Heaneyj the Gombeen”,
and other Faber stars come in for
regular abuse. In a letter to Robert
Conquest, be writes: “Craig Raine
is running F&ber poetry, and to my
mind indulging some pretty fearful
talents. But there is no poetry
nowadays. No one has any ear.
Another load of crap from the
Vficraxn Seth character; known to
you I believe. Quite pleasant stuff,
but fails to grip. Comes of being an
oriental I suspect Outside, a dog
barks/ Swinging from your pride I
muse/ On Wang-Lei’s lyrics. Not
my cup of tea."

His letters will be a cup of gin for
those who like n aughtiness. Here
he is in 1984, writing to Charles
Osborne, then secretary of the
Poetry Book Society: “Dear Mr
Ozbom, I am fond of potery and

should like to join the Poultry Book
Society. 1 hop that yuo publish
Patent Stomg, she is my faverit
next to Ted Huge of course. Yuors
respectfully P. A. Larkin (Mrs)".

Laririn was. a prolific corres-
pondent Letters replaced human
contact for him. In an unfinish ed
poem of August 1953, he wrote:
l know, none better.

The eyelessness of days without a
letter.

And in his bleak poem, “Aubade",
written towards the end of his life,
there is the final line:

Postmen like doctors go from
house to house..

For Larkin, as . for many lonely
people, some of whom wrae regu-
larly to newspapers, there was the
daily comfort of epistolary life, and
letters through die post'

In spite of the jokes and masks
and registers that Larkin put on.
the letters expose him consistently,
and charmingly. Books, poems,
jazz, cricket drink, the daily grind

of “the toad. work”, exasperation
with friends and colleague s , gossip
about diem, depression at the'state
of the world and of . himself,
abomination of “niggere" and die
working class; a frustrated search
for high-quality pornography, in-
terest m whatever interested his
correspondent delight in his occa-
sional delights. Even when joking,
he told the troth as he saw ft, in his
letters as in his poems.

As a recurrent theme of comic
relief there are reports from the
front on the Larkin waisdine. 1978:
J*As a result of overeating and —
''drinking am now precariously
perched on die wagon, vowed to a
month of ahstinence in an attempt
to shift my great sagging belly that
is beginning to arouse public
comment. None of my dothes fit
either when 1 sit down my tongue
. comes out.” 1983 (to Fay Godwin):
T don’t know about bong, photo-
graphed again: I now have three
conditions that photographers

must promise to observe in what
they print I am not bald, I have
only one chin, my waist is concave.
And this means that about the only
picture of me now available is full-
face head-and-shouldeis, chin up.
in dark shade."

Whatever other writer’s blocks
and black dogs he suffered, Larkin
always went on writing letters,
looking at himself and the human
condition with graveyard humour.
He may indeed have been, as he
observed, part "of the last genera-
tion to write to each other. He may
have been, in the words of his
fictitious American biographer
"One of those old-type natural
fouled-up guys”. But it was worth it
His letters, like his poetry, are fife-
enhancing and a delight, and a fine
epigraph to his age — Give me your
arm . old toad t help me down
Cemetery Road. Like no poet since
Yeats, the librarian of Hull spoke to
people in their wrice and vernacular
with the neuroses and humour of
the age. And now, as a treat in
store, here come these letters from
beyond the grave; utterly Laritin-
esque. indignant and sad and
tzuth-tefling, and wildly funny
about the bad joke of life.

Why the Liberals must go

A re the Liberals really as
harmless as they seem?
This week they are stag-
gering through another
nference, waving another
slogan ("Facing up to' the
Future") and pretending that hope
will yet triumph over bitter experi-
ence. The party today debates its
reaction to a fourth election in
which it has handed the Tories
victory on a plate. It will do so by
bowling down even the most
tentative dialogue with Labour.
"We are the only credible advocates
of radical change;” cries Des
son. “No pacts.”
cries Paddy
Ashdown. To what

lib Dems are a barrier to change, says Simon Jenkins

purpose?
The tot

young

Tories to their fantasies. They are
beyond help and sadly unattractive.
Perhaps Norman Fowler should
consider, even if only on aesthetic
grounds, restricting parly member-
ship to the over-thirties. At least
then l could lapse into a life of more
bearable regrets.

e total failure
of the British
Liberal party in the
past quarter centu-
ry is the great un-
discussable of poli-
tics. Friend and foe
alike seem comfort-
able to have this
bag of bones to
poke amiable fun at
each year. The
BBC props it up
with silly "three-
way debates”. Pap- . .
ers appear with tides such as
“Challenge, Opportunity, Respon-
sibility”. Mr Ashdown moons tin
like Cyrano de Bergerac in foe
bougainvillea, watching balefuQy
as his rivals shin up foe balcony
and cany off the prize. If foe
liberals did not exist, nobody
would begin to invent them.

Each new twist in postwar
politics should have been a boon to
this party: die collapse of working-
class loyalty to Labour, the political
"estrangement" of foe 1960s and'
1 970s, the growth of devolutkmism
In Scotland and Wales, foe identity
shift to single-interest groups. On
none of these have Liberals built a
distinctive base, even when over
seven million protest voters were
using it as an electoral dustbin in
the 1980s.

They whinge about the unfair-
ness of the voting system. Bur rules
are rules. The way to beat first-past-
the-post is to rig it with a pad. This
is how the liberals produced foe
Progressive Alliance with Labour in
1 906. yielding foe most stunning

SDP in foe 1981 recession: tears
looking for a fresh shoulder to
moisten.

Europe’s leaders have not jjust
ignored this disillusioned constitu-
ency, in foe nine months since
Maastricht they have scorned and
abused it The Danes hit back. So.
soon, will tire Italians. France and
Germany have seen the resurgence
of new parties of the far right
Recession has produced similar
antibodies in America: that the
implausible Ross Perot could do so
well was more significant than that
he personalty failed. There is here a

anti-Tory victory of the 20th centu-
ry: only 1 57 Tories won seats. Ever:
since foe rise of Social Liberalism in
the 1890s, the convergence of the
two parties of the left awaited only
the loosening of foe bond between
Labour and the unions. This finalty
took place under Neil Kinnock. In
last May's election, onty a pedant
could distinguish foe Liberal from
foe Labour programme.

Third parties have their uses in
any two-party system, either as
centrist dustbins or to oppose or
espouse some Big Idea- when the
main parties are in alliance and the
public has no choice. Just occasion-
ally they can use such an idea to
pursue a new electoral fault line.
The Social Democrats thought they
could do this by “breaking foe
mould" in 1981. They found they
were simply a better dass of
dustbin.

I believe such a fault could now
be opening in European politics,
though whether in Britain is still
moot Last week a nation genuinely
divided on Maastricht ratification

and on devaluation bad to Watch ail
'gqeeparty leaders fezm.a tripartite
coalition to "support the govern-
ment's exchange jute policy, one
that even enthusiasts would admit
was controversial Each leader in
turn queued up to deride the “quick
fix merchants", the referendum
lobbyists, the Maastricht oppo-
nents, as little short of unpatriotic.
Such tripartisanship is normally
confined to nations at war.

Worry over this new coalition is
visible in both Labour and. Liberal
ranks. But the real fault line lies
where Margaret Thatcher detected
it in 1975, deep within the Conser-
vatives. It is behween foe traditional
“party of government”, sheltering
beneath foe skirts of the Treasury,
Downing Street and the whips
office, and foe natural opposition to
this ministerialist establishment,
once championed by Mis Thatcher
but now leaderless. The fault line
does not gape; Mr Major is too
good a party manager for that But
it has widened under him as the
gap between him and foe formal

Opposition has narrowed. Last
week’s coaljtiqn must widen it
further. There is about Westmin-
ster now a frleak, we must hope.
' temporaiy.echbof 193 1, of Tories,
liberals and Labour trapped in a
recessionary mode by central bank-
ers, fixed exchange rates and a
tenor of criticism. Sadly we have no
Keynes, only Burke's sqphisters,
economists and calculators, all now
in govenunem employ.

Over against them are the little
platoons, the sceptics, foe haters of
bureaucrats, anti-Maastricht thor-
oughly cussed. Here are foe small
bu sin e ssme n of foe service indus-
tries who did well under Mrs
Thatcher and are doing dreadfully
in the dump. They are not little
Englanders against free trade, but
they are against the public and
private monopolists who in their
view have Whitehall and Brussels
on strings. They owe no party
loyalty. They are easy prey for
demagoguery. Out of desperation
they nocked to Mosley in 1931.
Many of the same embraced the

sort of a Big Idea
for foe Nineties,
but foe Liberals
want no part of it
When Ross Perot
was riding high in
the summer, Mr
Ashdown was
much taken with
his platform, notar
bty his anti-central-
ist “empowerment"
theme (Mr Ash-
down adores jar-
gon). But Liberals
could not stomach
foe rest of the pack-
age. least of all Mr
Perot's enthusiasm
for free markets and his hatred of

government

' The liberals’ failure leaves them
two painful choices, both of some
importance to the electoral map of
Britain. They can follow the logic of
recent history, renew foe Progres-
sive Alliance and help oust foe
Tories. Or they can stay faithful to
their third party role: go for the Big
Idea, fight bureaucratic centralism,
oppose the burgeoning European
cartels, champion foe individual
against the state.

Elsewhere in Europe the elector-
al exploitation of this idea has taken
extreme nationalist forms. The
liberal tradition could be a re-
straint on such extremism, a safety
valve to warn mainstream politi-
cians that have drifted too far from
foe public. But this wfll only
happen if the liberals have the
appropriate guts. If they do not,
and should recession rot the heart
out of John Major's Conservatives,
something very nasty might
emerge from foe post-Maastricht
woodwork.

...and moreover

Alan Coren

O f all the myriad wonders
on which Cricklewood’s
tzansglobal renown is de-
servedly founded, there is perhaps
none worthier than her Institute
for Social Inventions. Housed at
20 Hever Road NW2. foe ISI is
committed to nothing less than
the perpetual search to improve
man's lot upon this hapless planet
by spotting the potential of stuff
anyone might find in the average
dustbin and, with a tin-tack here
and a reef-knot there, deploying it
to foe benefit of less fortunate
humankind. No challenge great
or small from. say. building a
battered husbands’ refuge out of
old cotton-reels, to boiling down
unwanted rabbit-skulls into a
handy fixative guaranteed to stop
Thud World dentures from rat-
tling in even the stiffest nor’easter,
remains unrisen to.

Above all in an era distin-
guished for the manufacture of
rubbish both physical and spiritu-
al the Institute offers the concom-
itant chance of bipolar redemp-
tion, since anyone prepared to
take a gutterful of contemporary
jetsam and selflessly spend his
day recycling it into some boon
for the needy wfll soon feel his
soul soar above foe tacky bonds of
earth. There is nothing like spray-
painting an assortment or Big
Mac cartons and Carisberg cans
and stringing them above an
orphan's cot to set a man’s feet on
the path to beatification.

Mind you, you have to be a dab
hand with gum and hammer. For
some time now, foe Institute has
been sending me its newsletter,
and I have to report that my ratio
of execution to inspiration is

disappointingly low. Much as I’d
love to take a dozen Madonna
albums and melt them into a
dinner service fit to grace any
Oxfam window, or separate from
their scrapped camshaft foe cams
crying out to be converted into
sturdy door-knockers so hard-of-
hearing OAPs would not miss
their wheeled meals, these and
many another altruistic cobble
have proved beyond my talent.

Which is why I view the
upcoming Natural Death Dinner
with some unease. On September
27. the Institute is convening
what their latest bumf describes
as a gourmet meal with wine for
£12. a bargain I should normally
snap up, were it not for the post-
prandial topic, a discussion on
"DIY Funerals” in preparation
for which foe Institute has circu-
lated us with a digest of potential
themes, viz:

Flat-pack coffin: Richard Hoskin
Workshops offer a flarpack coffin
from E35 plus deliveiy. made of
MDF. pty or veneer.

Making our own coffins. Barba-
ra Huelin writes: My husband
has recently finished building our
coffins, in blockboard, at a cost of
£50 each (not including our time).
They are painted green and have
nautical-looking rope handles.
We have booked a double-decker
site in foe local council cemetery
for £100. to which family and
friends will bear us.

Fruit tree planted over body.
Often, in the bade country of
Montana, a hole will be dug and
foe body In a plain pine man will
be lowered in. Instead of a
tombstone, a fruit tree is planted
over the body. In foe years to

follow, eating the fruit will be like
partaking in the loved one.

Urn. While I applaud all this,
and certainty don’t wish my
corpse to run up a huge post-
mortal bill for having its golden
casket trotted to its bespoke
Richard Rogers mausoleum by
six St Leger winners, I neverthe-
less spot a major snag in foe
Institute's cheapo alternative: giv-
en a lifetime’s toolbox experience,
can my deafotime’s one be any
better? Just as I have unpacked
many a flatpacked thing and
screwed it three-dimensional onty
to have if immediately fall flat
again, so I have ruined more
blockboard than most people
have had gourmet dinners. As for
nautical-looking rope handles,
mine would not look nautical
long: I have watched too many
rowboats drift away from their
bollards to have imich confidence
that as family and friends bore
me to my plot my handles would
nfounraveL leaving nay wonlty ill-
nailed blockboard flanks to drop,
dismantle, and render their con-
tents an embarrassment to afl.

And when it comes to planting
a fruit free over me. once family
and friends have scooped me
back into foe wheelbarrow, there
is no question but that, on my past
horticultural record, foe item I
have pre-mortalty ordered from
foe garden centre will turn out to
have scab, mildew, leaf-curl, can-
ker, and sawflies; if, indeed, it is
. not already deader than I am.

You wouldn’t want to ' eat
anything growing on it Unless,
that is, you were so Green you.
hated the idea of a double-decker
plot going to waste.

Pavilioned

in concrete

THE cancellation of John Major’s
visit to foe Expo World Fair in
Seville is a blessing in disguise to
those running the British pavilion.
The state of the pavilion, still
referred to in Spain as "the house
that Mrs Thatcher built”, is as
parlous as Britain's economy.

Last week the pavilion's souvenir
shop, run by Joanna Bickerton and
Associates Ltd of Shrewsbury, went
into receivership, and many local
suppliers say they have not been
paid tty foe pavilion's restaurant
and bar, managed by Lionheart of
London. The Expo concessionaires
blame the DTI which, they daim.
sold the concessions on a wildly
Optimistic prospectus.

Emilio CassineUa foe commis-
sioner general of Expo, yesterday
released figures which appeared to
confirm the view that. tire British
pavilion has become a £14 millio n
steel and glass white elephant Out
of 31 million visitors to Expo since
April, only 1.75 millio n visitors
have entered the British pavilion.
Nearly four million fry contrast
have visited the French pavilion.

Nor do foe problems end there:
Much has been made of the fact
that foe British pavilion is portable.
It isn't A director now says that the
Spanish authorities forced foe
builders to fill the tubular frame
with concrete to prevent foe spread
of fire and as a result the costs of
transporting foe edifice will now
prove prohibitive.

The British embassy yesterday
said Majors, visit was cancelled-
Downing Street said it was merely
“postponed". We shall see.

bens of the Palestine liberation
Organisation. Jawid al-Hussein,
the father of Mona Bauwens— cur-
rently suing The People over the
newspaper’s criticism of ho- holi-
day with David Mellor and his
family— is finding it nigh impossi-
ble to sell his mansion in Bishops
Avenue. Hampstead.

The house, called Sunningdale,
is where Bauwens has been pic-
tured in the press wearing a leotard
and sitting astride a rocking horse.
It was discreetly put on foe market
tty Saville’s at a cool £6 million but
has failed to attract a single buyer.
“Our instructions are to keep it on
the market They want to sell” says
Noel de Keyzer, for the estate
agents. “'The father doesn’t spend
much time here and Mona Bau-
wens spends most of her time in
her Mayfair flat. They have tended
to treat this more Hke a country
house."

promptly vetoed the idea.

“It would have been the Lindi St
Clair show,” said a dose aide. “ No-
body would have been interested in
what we had to say on the subject
which is a serious issue.” Ashdown
was particularly worried that St
Clair would reveal that she had
written to foe Liberal Democrat
leader offering him a copy of her
“diit file”. In her autobiography, to
be published next week, she says:
“This contains times, dales and
places, with corroborating photo-
graphs and videos of Labour and
Conservative MPs who frequent
prostitutes.” The file covers 204
MPs, she said yesterday, and is not
salacious but merely part of her

• Meanwhile Paddy Ashdown was
overheard in a conference bar dis-
cussing the future of another rebel,
David Alton, who announced that
he would not be able to stand as a
Liberal Democrar MP again
because of the conference vote on
. abortion. A delegate suggested to
Ashdown that they put him on a
ship and send him off to Ireland .
where he might feel at home.
“ That's no good,” quipped the
Liberal Democrat leader. "He
would walk back on the water r

Sober success

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of being one ?

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BEFROCKED by Berketex,
coiffeured by John Frieda and
bejewelled by Laurence Cost, 30
debutantes including Lady Tryon’s
daughter, Zoe, curtseyed and
waltzed their way through the
night on Monday at Queen Char-
lotte’s Birthday Ball in foe presence
of foe Duchess of Somerset

Lady TryoEL alas, was HI and fous
unable to watch her daughter’s
coming out but foe evening was
deemed a great success by foe
organisers, including actress Patri-
cia Hodge, who noted that there
was a particularly “nice breed of
girl” present

There was none of foe drunken-
ness or loutish behaviour which has
marred the occasion , in foe past

Whipped out

Des res, £6m

TIMES are hard, even for multi-
millionaire former executive mero-

AS LIBERAL Democrats debated
foe legalisation of prostitution at
their Harrogate conference yester-
day one of the nation’s best known
madaraes, Lindi St Clair, was de-
nied a starring role. Ms St Clair,
leader of foe self-styled Corrective
Party, had been invited by party
officials to address the conference
in the full glare of foe television
cameras. When Paddy Ashdown
heard he was appalled and

campaign to legalise prostitution.
In return she says she asked
Ashdown far a safe lib Dem seat
He declined foe offer.

Yesterday St Clair could not hide
her disappointment at being
banned from the debate. “I am foe
.onty one who could have spoken
from, experience." she says. “In-
stead I have sent them a 10-minute
video to give them an insight into
what life is like inside my brothel
which I have ran for 20 years with-
out complaint. And I still think
Paddy is wonderful”

The only moment when high spir-
it of

its threatened to get out of hand
was during Michael Ball's cabaret
when there was much screaming
and garter-throwing to a Tom
Jones number.

The occasion was also blessed
with the presence of Peter
Townend, Toilers social guru, who
ignored the event last year, alleged-
ly on foe grounds that it had be-
come too gauche. “This year’s ball
was a great success and raised an
awfifl fet raonqy for charity,” says
Townend. “ifs not just silly girls
making fools of foerasdves you
know." -i.

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1992

POLITICS BEFORE PRIDE

JWm M^° r is a proud and stubborn man.
These are qualities which in many political
omanstances count as virtues. When he is in

3X1 dection orina long battle
aga™ inflation he has the character
neo^ry for victory. In the past few days Mr
Major has put everything bar-the threat to
resign his job behind the commitment to
maintain a single value of sterling. If the
markets were to demand such a commit-
ment the prone minister might even now be
proud and stubborn enough to give it He
might offer up even his own office as the
*3,^ » minister and his pound

should stand or fail together.

In the estimation of any rational observer,
however, that would be an unwelcome,
unnecessary and ridiculous gesture. There is
growing concern that Mr Major is
approaching just such a position. Mere
contemplation of its absurdity should force
Mr Major to realise the danger.

The prime minister is risking his career,
the future accomplishments of his admin-
istration and his responsibility to lead
Europe into a new co-operative order. He is
risking all this not for something he
passionately believes in, not for a future of
sound money and social justice, but for a
pound worth 2.7780 marks.

If the French vote for Maastricht on Sun-
day, Mr Major can struggle on with hi
battle against the money markets. He may
well succeed, at least for while. If the French
vote against, there will begin a new era in
European affairs. Britain will have the op-
portunity to lead the renaissance of a Europe
whose path is chosen by national peoples not
international bureaucrats. The EC Com-
mission can be curbed. Overweening Euro-
pean laws can be burnt in a bonfire showing
what “subsidiarity* might truly mean.

Mr Major, as potentially the most secure
leader in the Community and as its
temporary president, would have the unique

opportunity to build British values into the
hrart of the new order. But to sene it he must
think again about the polity that even some
among his senior economic advisers see as
putting pride before politics.

Mr Major need make no a pologia about
his commitment to controlling inflation.
There is plenty of room for debate about
precisely how much mr phact? should be
given to this, but the goal of stable prices is
among the most honourable for arty poli-
tician. Let the prime minister be em phatic
about it Let him live to fight throughout the
community for freer markets and lower
public spending.

No single value for sterling can be the
necessaty or sufficient condition for a strat-
egy against phoney money. He must admit
that truth. His enemies wfl) attempt to rub
his n ose in past statements. His friends —
certainly those gathered at Brighton for new
month’s party conference — will forgive. The
reduction of interest rates is the news for
which the country is waiting and for which
the Tories will give their ovations.

Yesterday the signals from Whitehall were
mixed. Downing Street produced a list of
impressive tasks to explain why the p ri m e
minister had suddenly to abandon a foreign '
trip. Even in an exchange dealers' culture
where truth was long ago the casualty this
was an exercise in evasion.

Mr Major was not wasting hours on the
council tax. the claims of high-spending
ministers or the future of Hong . Kong. He
was pondering his next move in the drama
that dominates aO tilings. Until Sunday he is
probably safe. The Bank of England can
spend its reserves to protea sterling from the
worst ravages of the market place.

Britain is not in the parlous ' s tat e
represented by Italy. But after Sunday Mr
Major must be ready id make the most
important decisions of his life. He must not
be shackled to a dogma that is already dead.

THE COUNTRY’S BACKING

The government's dispatch of 1,800 troops
to the war zone in Bosnia-Herzegovina
pushes Britain to the forefront of the
international effort to enforce peace in
former Yugoslavia. In contrast to the
warnings of creeping intervention and foot-
dragging caution that marked British diplo-
macy for the best part of a year, the
government is vigorously backing its initia-
tive in calling the London conference with a
readiness to risk lives in the Balkan
maelstrom. After France. Britain will have
the largest contingent of troops in the area.

This is right There are few dose ties of
history or culture between Britain and
Yugoslavia. But as a permanent member of
the security council and holding the presi-
dency of the European Community, Britain
has a particular responsibility in helping
resolve one of the most intractable conflicts
now preoccupying the UN and the EC.

Yugoslavia is now squarely in the centre of
British politics. No longer is it a faraway
country whose Byzantine vendettas can be
ignored: it is a war that has come dose to the
homes of hundreds of_ British service
families, one where British commanders
may be crucial to the outcome of a conflict
that has already become the bloodiest
engagement in Europe since the second
world war. Yet troops have been committed
with barely a word of explanation to the
country. It has been left to television to
convince the public that the awfulness must
be stopped; snatched interviews with Foreign
Office ministers have been the only prepara-
tion for yesterday's announcement The
government has flatly rejected demands for a
retail of Parliament, insisting that no
emergency debate is necessary.

British troops should never be sent to risk
their lives without a convincing explanation
why they should do so. That explanation
should be given to the House of Commons,
the forum in which all government policy is
accountable. And John Major or Malcolm
Rifkind must tell the country what the exact
role of the troops will be.

Are they going merely to protect the food
convoys, or will the mandate of the United
Nations Protection Force, to which they win
be attached, be changed to deploy the blue
berets in more active peace-enforcement
measures, such as the supervision of all heavy
weapons? What are the precise rules of
engagement? Is the deployment open-ended,
and will reinforcements be needed?

Neither the deployment nor the govern-
ment’s justification for it can afford to be
half-hearted. There are indeed legitimate
doubts about the militaiy objectives of the
UN operations in Bosnia. These have been
forcefully articulated by most militaiy com-
manders on the spot and by the defence
establishments in Washington. London and
Brussels. Their arguments should cany
much weight But to argue that the objectives
should be clarified is legitimate; to argue that
no action should be begun if there is any risk
is not Once the political derision has been
made, the soldiers on the ground need total
commitment: from their commanding offi-
cers. from their government and, in the end,
from their country.

Britain’s earlier caution on. committing its
forces was understandable, given the treach-
erous nature of the terrain and tire people in
Yugoslavia. But the London conference
marked a turning point It laid out a
framework for negotiating an end to the
fighting, Much depended for its credibility
on the whole-hearted commitment of all the
outside powers present

If there is a need for a show of force on the
ground to demonstrate the world’s deter-
mination not to tolerate mass civilian
suffering and starvation, Britain cannot opt
out Similarly Britain must be ready to
undertake the supervision of heavy weapons,
the first essential step towards reducing the
fighting. The government has led the
political initiative; now it is reinforcing its
credibility on the ground. The policy will not
stick, however, without the backing of the
country. Parliament should be retailed to
muster that backing.

OXFORD ASPIRATIONS

l was holding a conference against
yesterday, an occasion that sounds

: College of Arms running a seminar

ublicanism. Elitism, seeking the best

ilarship and science, is what Oxford is

or. Over the centuries its success has

ruch that there is hardly a human
that has not been enriched by

l. In running a university, as in

ig an orchestra or picking a cricket
elitism — in spite of its politically

ct overtones — must be the right
Oxford wants the best, and for nine

ies it has got what it wants,

fclitism that the Oxford Access Scheme

ipaigning against is the common
that Oxford is the haven of middle-

children from well-off homes and
schools, and that the path to the

ing spires is steeper for those from less

>ed backgrounds. It wants a polity of
'discrimination in favour of children
lorking-ciass and ethnic backgrounds,
them up the crowded path,
the percentage of children from state
; coming up to Oxford this y^L l * * * * * * * * * * * * * 15
a slight increase on last year. Tne
iaee from independent schools is
ilso a slight increase. (The remainder
lairtly from foreign sources.) This
lion has been steady for several yrars.
system of direct reverse discnmina-
□uld be as unfair as the corrupt old
is of founder's kin and places reserved
gilded youth, particularly for those
fathers had friends on high tables,
ass riitism faded long aga though it
. strongly in the literature and folklore,
ird’s continuing detriment

In the long run reverse discrimination
would not work. Eton started as a college for
70 poor scholars, until the English middle
classes recognised a good education when
they saw one. If the easy road to Oxford were
through a comprehensive, the ambitious
middle-dasses would remove their children
to such schools for their sixth-form years.
Intellectual elitism on merit is the only fair
policy for Oxford in 1992.

The trouble with Oxford entry fe that it is
more self-selecting and self-rejecting than
that for other universities. Too marry
children (and schools and career-advisers) in-
stinctively rule out Oxford as an option
because of its damaging and obsolete myth-
ology as the home of lost members of the
Brideshead generation, and as being im-
possibly oversubscribed. In fact, there were
only three candidates for each of the 3.184

places awarded by the colleges this year.

Because the famous public schools are
brilliant at coaching candidates for exams,
however. Oxbridge colleges need to rel y also
on interview in depth, and on reports from
their network of contacts in schools to detect
potential beneath the A levels. The colleges
are realising that such networks need to be
enlarged to embrace the state sector.

That is the righteous Oxford Bitism,
searching out the best from whatever
background. Oxford is right to advertise its
attractions in schools and among children
that do not yet recognise them. Bui any
quota system of reverse discrimination in
favour of the disadvantaged would be as
unfair as the snobbery it is supposed to
reverse. There should be no shortcuts: not for
the privileged nor for the underprivileged.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

I Pennington Street, London El 9XN Telephone 071-782 5000

Freeing the pound and controlling the deutschmark

From Lord Boyd-Carpenter

Sir. I hope that your leading artide.
"Free the pound" (September 1 4). will
be taken seriously by those now in
charge of the Treasury, whatever the
result of the French referendum. The
argument for attaching the pound to
the ERM (exchange-rate medianism)
was that doing so would eliminate
alarms and crises. The outcome has
been that we have had plenty of both.

Moreover, the policy of tying the
pound to a strict parity with other
currencies is dearly disadvantageous
to our economy. If, as used to be the
case, the exchange value of sterling
moved freely in the light of the state of
the economy, this movement had a
stabilising and corrective effect. If the
balance of trade and payments was
weak, the exchange value of the pound

This made our exports cheaper and
therefore more attractive to foreign
buyers. It also made imports more
expensive and therefore discouraged
British purchasers of imported goods.
The combined effect of these develop-
ments was to restore the balance of
trade without crises or drama.

I am. Sir, your obedient servant,
BOYD-CARPENTER.

Crux Easton House. Crux Easton.

Nr Newbury, Berkshire.

September 14.

From Mr Mark Dunn

Sir Neo-Nazi German youths hurl
brickbats at state-supported foreign
economic refugees in East Prussia,
where unemployment rates are near-
ing 70 per cent. The capital equip-
ment to provide jobs for the Germans,
or the refugees, does not exist

The demand for consumer goods,
being paid for with deutschmarks not
earned but recently exchanged for
worthless paper and therefore poten-
tially themselves worthless, is unsatis-
fied. In the former East Germany too
much money chases too few goods.

Because of these fundamental and
familiar factors — they are Weimar-
esque indeed — the Bundesbank
considers the money supply to be so
seriously in danger of breaking free
and inflating that it refuses, correctly
of course, anything but a token
reduction in interest rates.

All the while non-German poli-
ticians and bankers are praying for a
let-up in the forces which are sucking

Danish vote dilemma

From Mr Christopher Story

Sir, Artide 20 of die Danish Constitu-
tion of 1 953 lays down that for any
legislation which implies the dilution
of Denmark’s sovereignty, via its
subordination to a supranational au-
thority, either of the following con-
ditions are required:

J. A vote in favour of the legislation of
five-sixths of the membership of the
Folketing.

2. A referendum result in favour of the
proposal.

The Danish government has been
able to secure neither of these results.
Thai is wlty Mr Elleman-Jensen. the
foreign minister, has stated that the
Maastricht treaty will not become a
reality in its present form.

It is out of the question for the

liberals and Labour

From Mr Adrian Slade

Sir, By now my party must' be
immune to the stereotypical con-
ference report of woolly-hatted or
hooded representatives with acne,
personality disorders and, usually,
sandals, so Matthew Parris’s com-
ments (conference sketch, September
14) wfll not be taken too seriously by
Liberal Democrats at Harrogate.

Peter Riddell's thoughts (“The
centre holds only too welT. Septem-
ber 14) are another matter and
enough to stir even those of us who are
not at this year's conference. What is
this current assumption by some
serious political commentators that
the only hope for the Liberal Demo-
crats is for them to work in coalition
with Labour? This after a third
abysmally dismal performance by
Labour in a general election, which
signals to many of us that, whatever
the window dressing, Labour is never
again going to be an acceptable
alternative to the Tories.

Why should the Liberal Democrats
now hitch themselves to Labour at its
nadir when our party continues to
erode or replace Labour as the effect-
ive alternative to Toryism jn so many
councils and parliamentary seats
across the country?

Liberal Democrats should continue
to keep doors open to those of like
progressive mind from whatever
party, particularly Labour, and con-
tinue to develop a more contemporary
and relevant alternative than Labour
is capable of providing, but pragmatic
arrangements are for journalists not
electors. Liberal Democrat voters like
such arrangements no more than
most Liberal Democrats, and they will
not work in practice.

Peter Riddell is wrong.

Yours faithfully.

ADRIAN SLADE
(President. Liberal party. 1987-8).

28 St Leonards Road, SW|4.
September 14.

Letters to the editor should carry a
daytime telephone number. They
may be sent to a fax number —
071-782 5046.

diy the mature Western European
and United States economies, as their
available investment funds are con-
verted into deutschmarks. to fill the
vacuum in the east
Yet we British still strive for eco-
nomic unity and a single market in
Europe, Surely we would be better off
feeding ourselves, putting up some
protective walls around our industry
and generally behaving more like an
unaligned trading nation, like Switz-
erland. with a still-rich portfolio of
foreign investments.

Yours faithfully,

MARK DUNN.

Wildham. Stoughton,

Chichester, West Sussex.

September 14.

From the Chairman of the
European Movement

Sir. The recent agonising and turmoil
over EC currencies and interest races
underline the urgent economic need
for a further prompt and significant
cut in German interest rates. The
Bundesbank will realise that this is
good for Germany’s economic recov-
ery as well as everyone ebe’s.

The longer-term implication is that
the sooner we get to the single
currency in Europe the better. The
prize is glittering: no more speculation
in individual national currencies,
which are an anachronism in such a
cohesive economic area as Europe is
becoming.

Interest rates could be the same
everywhere. Different national rates of
inflation would all become the same
EC-wide rate. Consumers would have
the immense advantage of being able
to compareshop prices throughout the
member stales.

Assuming a positive “yes" result in
France, and a fruitful re-think by the
Danes, the inevitable should be accel-
erated for the future prosperity of the
Community.

I remain, etc..

HUGH DYKES,

Chairman. European Movement.
Europe House,

158 Buckingham Palace Road. SW1.
September 15.

From Mr It. A. Lamb

Sir. Although I welcome this morn-
ing’s moves by the Bundesbank. I
regard interest rates throughout
Europe as too high, thereby prevent-

Danish government to hold a further
referendum on the document as it
stands (Le.. the one which was the
subject of their June 2 referendum). It
can only be held on a materially dif-
ferent document which would mean
the renegotiation of Maastricht
The Danish government will
shortly publish a white paper contain-
ing various options, to be debated in
the Folketing. Although that body
cannot overrule the referendum result
it could, by a five-sixths majority,
recommend substantial changes to the
treaty, for consideration by the EC
presidenty. Such a majority is un-
likely, which is why the government is
hinting at another referendum next
year on any changes that the Folketing
may recommend. Whatever the out-
come, the treaty will have to be
substantially altered. In the unlikely
event that the Danes approve a

Jobs and age limit

From Mr Bryan Cassidy, MEP for
Dorset East and Hampshire West
{European People's Pony
{Conservative))

Sir. Ray Clancy (artide. September 9)
highlights the problem of jobless
people over 40. Unusually, this is one
respect in which the public sector is
more enlightened than the private.
Recruitment advertisements in news-
papers for public sector jobs rarely
mention age. Those for private com-
panies, regrettably, almost always do.

The exception to this good public
sector practice is the institutions of the
European Community, the European
Commission and the European Par-
liament in particular. They always
include an age limit.

The excuse given by the Com-
mission is that this is necessary to

Royal marriages

From the Chairman of the
National Family Trust

Sir, Any society requires marriage, or
something very similar to it. in order
to safeguard its children, to provide a
structure for responsible child-bear-
ing. to channd the emotional attach-
ment and identity needs of adults and,
for the majority, to enhance personal
meaning and motivation and much
else.

Your leader, "Royal liberation”
(September 12). could not be more
misplaced symbolically, psychologi-
cally and historically. Royal marriages
need some liberation from the media,
certainly. But personal liberation is,
for everyone, elusive if we fail to
grapple with the stresses and strains of
our innate interdependence, whether
expressed in tender intimacy or the
daily round of family and community
life

The various historic acts of Par-
liament which govern royalty’s mar-
riages should not be tampered with
lightly. All marriages are in fact "of
the highest importance to the state”.
We already know of the largely
disastrous social, economic, educa-
tional. and emotional consequences of

ing any improvement in growth or
investment and. in Britain's case,
substantially contributing to the weak-
ness in sterling. A reduction in base
rates generally would give all Euro-
pean currencies the fillip they require,
ar the same rime keeping existing
parities.

Zero inflation may well be a
commendable target, but it will be
purposeless if in the meantime a

substantial proportion of British in-
dustry is derimared. with the in-
evitable burden of higher taxation.

1 am a small player in the construc-
tion industry, which has been seri-
ously damaged over the past three
years through high interest rates.

Yours faithfully.

R. A. LAMB
(Managing Director).

W. T. Lamb Holdings Ltd..

Nyewood Court. B rockers Road.
Billingshurst, West Sussex.

September 14.

From Mr Anthony Griffin

Sir. On March 1 7. shortly before the
general election, some 40 chief execu-
tives of British companies wrote in
these columns of the "rising living
standards" of the past 1 2 years, the
“substantial inward investment"
which had taken place and the
reappearance of the “spirit of enter-
prise". They suggested that the party
to vote for should be the one which
had provided these benefits since
1979. That party could be trusTed “to
put enterprise first".

Are readers not now entitled to a
further letter from those leaders of
industry explaining the benefits busi-
ness has derived since that party u -as
voted back and when the chief
executives now- see the end to the
recession?

I am. Sir. your obedient servant,
ANTHONY GRIFFIN.

10 West Street,

Geddington, Northamptonshire.

From Mr Charles Morgan

Sir. Do you think the Germans regard
economics as the continuation of war
by other means?

Yours faithfully.

CHARLES MORGAN,

46 Cathcart Road. SW 10-

Business letters, page 23

changed version by referendum, those
countries which may by then have
ratified the original treaty will have
ratified a document unacceptable to
the Danes. If the changes were to be
contained in a protocol, and an
attempt made to argue that as such it
was not part of the treaty, then other
protocols would also be invalidated
and the treaty would fall apart.

Unless and until all member coun-
tries ratify Maastricht as and however
amended to satisfy the Danish people,
the treaty will remain illegal. Do
politicians and officials want to forfeit
what little credibility they retain by
carrying on with this farrago?

Yours faithfully.

CHRISTOPHER STORY
(Editor and Publisher).

International Currency Review,

1 08 Horseferry Road.’SW 1 .

secure an adequate career dev-
elopment for the people it recruits.
But, in the jobs for temporaty officials
for the Commission which your
newspaper has been carrying, there is
even age discrimination there! This
makes nonsense of the claim about
career progression.

In the United States it is as illegal to
discriminate in employment on the
grounds of age as it is race or sex. It
would not be difficult for the govern-
ment to introduce a minor modifica-
tion to our legislation here at least to
forbid explicit references to age in
recruitment advertising.

Couldn’t the newspapers also help
by refusing to accept job advertise-
ments which contain age limits?

Yours faithfully.

BRYAN CASSIDY.

The Stables. White Cliff Gardens.
Blandford. Dorset.

our national failure to buttress and
enrich marriage. Absolving ourselves
from mature concern for our royal
family by removing from them key
obligations of their historic estate
would be a terminal blow to our
tenuous social ecology and to our
national constitution.

Yours faithfully.

RICHARD WHITFIELD.
Chairman.

National Family Trust.

1 0 1 Queen Victoria Street. EC4.
September 14.

From Sir Robert Sanders

Sir. “But 1 trust. Sir. that 1 have never
abused the enormous power I wield. I
trust. Sir. that 1 have never pointed the
noble instrument which is placed in
my hands, against the sacred bosom
of private life, or the tender breast of
individual reputation."

Who would have thought that our
present-day press would have lower
standards than Mr Pott, the editor of
the Eatanswill Gazette in The Pick-
wick Papers?

Yours faithfully.

ROBERT SANDERS.

Greystones Lodge, Broich Terrace,
Crieff. Perthshire.

‘Master teachers’
to raise standards

From Sir John Mason. FRS

Sir. Although many head teachers
and the National Union of Teachers
seem to reject government plans for
performance-related pay (reports.
September 2. 14) sustained improve-
ment in educational standards and
performance is required if the major-
ily of our young people are io achieve
their full potential and proride a
skilled workforce able io compete with
those of Germany. Japan and South-
East Asia.

The decline in the social status and
authority of the teacher is one of t fa-
most wonying developments today. If
we are to have a cultivated, civilised
and technically competent society the
foundations must be laid in the family
and the school and teaching must
again be raised to an honoured
profession on a par in esteem with
nursing and medicine.

This is unlikely to happen unless
teachers do more" to help themselves,
for example, by accepting The need for
better training and qualifications,
with pay and promotion closely
related to ability, performance and
responsibility.

1 propose a scheme to identify and
reward the outstanding classroom
teacher by the conferment of a special
title such as "master teacher", to-
gether with an enhanced salary that
would give the recipient increased
siatus within the school and the local
community.

These awards should encourage the
outstanding and dedicated teacher to
remain in the dassroom rather than
seek promotion to an administrative
post. Such teachers could be expected
to participate in the development of
curricula and improved methods of
leaching and assessment. They
should also play a key role in the
supervision of trainee teachers, who
will now spend at least bO per cent of
their time in the dassroom.

1 envisage a national scheme,
financed by central government,
analogous in principle to the personal
merit promotion schemes of the dvil
service and the NHS. operated
through regional assessment panels.
The number of awards would have to
ensure their high prestige while being
sufficiently encouraging to make a
real impact on teacher morale. A
reasonable compromise might allow
some 1 0 per cent of teachers over the
age of 35 to be successful.

Yours faithfully.

JOHN MASON.

64 Christ Church Road.

East Sheen. SWT 4.

September 14.

Education aims

From the Chairman of the County
Education Officers' Society

Sir. Chief education officers across the
country believe that unless there are
substantia] modifications as the edu-
cation white paper turns into a par-
liamentary bill in the next few weeks,
the prime minister’s aim to ensure
that no child has to settle for a second-
dass education will be frustrated.

There is too much muddle about
who will be responsible for what, how-
aggrieved parents will get redress,
and how those taking decisions on
resources and standards will be held
accountable to local council taxpayers.

We see real problems in implement-
ing the proposals on planning and
reorganising schools; funding them
fairly, when the number of grant-
maintained schools varies so greatly
in different areas: providing support
and services for those and local
education authority schools; and
improving schools whose failings are
assumed to come to fight mainly
through a public inspection report.

The drive to remove surplus places
will reduce the scope for parental
choice. Most of our market towns
typically have only one secondary
school, with the nearest alternative 1 0
or more, miles away.

Comments on The white paper are
due by September 25. This leaves
little time for comment by governing
bodies, which are being reconstituted
this term. The minister and MPs
need to have a real debate with
parents, governors, heads and others
who know what fife is like in schools
so that we can give all pupils equal
access to the best

Yours faithfully.

IVOR SLOCOMBE
(Chairman, The County Education
Officers’ Society).

County Hal!.

Bythesea Road.

Trowbridge. Wiltshire.

September 14.

Lighting a fuse

From DrM.A. Ware

Sir. Your leader. “English spelt here"
(September 10). states that bad spell-
ing in a newspaper “is a sign of
incompetence as slovenly as a ladder
in the tights". This stricture should
have been heeded in your review on
the same day of the Booker hopeful.
The English Patient :

Surely, in diffusing the bomb the
hero was guaranteeing maximum
mayhem rather than rendering it
harmless in The usual way.

Yours faithfully,

MARGARET A. WARE.

Monks Gate.

Shipton-under-Wychwood,

Chipping Norton,

Oxfordshire.

September 12.

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1992

COURT CIRCULAR

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
September IS: The Princess Royal
this evening arrived at Heathrow
Airport. London, from a visit to
India.

Mrs David Bowes Lyon and
Lieutenant Colonel Peter Gibbs
were in attendance.

KENSINGTON PALACE
September 14; The Princess of
Wales, Cotond-in-Chtef. The West
Nova Scotia Regiment, this morn-
ing received Colonel Charles
MacLeQan. Honorary Colored of
the Regiment, at Kensington
P alace

September 15: The Prince of
Wales this morning visited Edin-
burgh and was received by Sir
Peter Heady (Deputy lieutenant
of the City of Edinburgh).

His Rpyal Highness presented
the Community Enterprise
Scheme Awards at Edinburgh
Castle.

Mr Peter Westtnacott was in
attendance

The Prince of Wales this after-
noon visited Banchory and was
received by Mr Angus Pelham-
Bum (Vice- Lord Lieutenant of
Kincardineshire).

His Royal Highness. Patron.
Atlantic Salmon Trust and Presi-
dent. Salmon and Trout Associ-
ation. opened the Whitley Fish
Counts* Weir at Banchory-
Devenkk on the River Dee.

Subsequently The Prince of
Wales reopened the Burnett Me-
morial on Scohy HDL Banchory.

Commander Richard Ayiard
was in attendance.

The Princess of Wales this
morning visited Chiswick Family
Rescue. Chiswick. London W4.

Mr Patrick Jephson was in
attendance.

KENSINGTON PALACE
September IS: The Duke of
Gloucester. Grand Prior., the
Order of St John, this morning

received Dame Audrey Emenon.
Chief Nursing Officer of St John
Ambulance, and recipients of the
Queen’s Honorary Physician
Awards 1 992. -

In the afternoon His Royal
Highness opened the Divisional
Headquarters for the Epsom and
Ewdl Division of St John Am-
bulance. Hook Road. Epsom, and
was received by Her Majesty’s
Lord Lieutenant for Surrey (Mr
Richard Thornton).

In the evening The Duke of
Gloucester, Patron, die Pestakrori
Children's Village Trust, was
present at die exhibition Tibetan
Art at Spink'. Spink and Son
Limited. 5-7 King Street St
James's. London SW1 .

Major Nicholas Barne was in
attendance.

The Duchess of Gloucester today
visited Leicestershire and was re-
ceived by Her Majesty's Lord
Lieutenant for Leicestershire (Mr
Timothy Brooks).

Her Royal Highness opened the
new Youth Wing at Emily Foney
School Gtenfield Road. Leicester
and later opened the Leicester
Disablement Services Centre at die
General Hospital. Gwendolen
Road. Afterwards The Duchess of
Gloucester opened Stuart Court
the Church of England Pensions
Board's new Residential Home for
die Clergy. Kibwonh Beauchamp,
Harixnough.

Miss Suzanne Mariand was in
attendance.

YORK HOUSE
ST JAMES'S PALACE
September 15: The Duchess of
Kent, this afternoon presented a
British Broadcasting Corporation
“Hearts of Gold" award to Mrs
Gwyneth Poacher at the Conrad
Hotel Chelsea Harbour. London
SW10.

Mis Julian Tomkins was in
attendance:

Birthdays today

Miss Lauren BacaH actress, 68;
Lord Brassy of Apethorpe: 60; Mr
Tommy Carbeny, jockey. 5 1 : Lord
Grimthoipe. 77; Mr Charles
Haughey, fo r me r Prime Minister
of the Republic of Ireland, 67:
Lord Henderson of Brampton. 70;
Mr Ian Horsbrugh. principal
Guildhall School of Music and
Drama. 51; Mr Andy Irvine,
rugby player, 41; the Very Rev
W.B. Johnston, extra Chaplain to
The Queen in Scotland. 71; Mr
B.B. King, guitarist and singer.
67; Mr Lee Kuan Yew. former
Prime Minister of Singapore, 69;
Sir John Megaw, former Lord
Justice of Appeal 83; Mr Robin
Morgan, former editor. Sunday
Express. 39: Sir John Page, former
M P. 73: Baroness Pike. 74; Dame
Sheila Quinn, former nursing
adviser. British Red Cross Society,
72; Lord Ryder of Eaton Hastings.
76; Mis Steve Shirley, founder. F
International Group. 59; Profes-
sor Lord Walton of Detdiani 70.

Today’s royal
engagements

The Duke of Gloucester, as
Trustee of the British Museum.
wiQ open the Congress of die
International Medal Federation at
Beveridge HaH Senate House.
London Unheirily. at 1 0.00.

The Duke of Kent will open the
Felix Training Centre at the Army
School of Ammunition. Kin etna
Warwickshire, at 1 1 .00.

Reception

India League

The Indian High Commissioner
and Mb Kamla Singhvi attended
a reception given by the. India
League at the Mahatma Gandhi
Hall yesterday in honour of Dr
Manmofian Singh, Indian fi-
nance Minister. Mr Julius
S Overman, chairman of the
league, and Mr S.N. Gourisaria.
honorary general seaetaiy. re-
ceived the guests.

Lecture

English-Sp ea k ing Union
Mrs Edward Norman- Butler.
Chairman of the Cultural Affairs
Council of the English-Speaking
Union, and Mrs Valerie MitcheQ.
ESU deputy director- general. re-
ceived the guests at a literary
lecture hdd yesterday at Dart-
mouth House. Miss Han Suyin
was the guest speaker.

Soiree

People and Places

Marika's Cafi Theatre, a soirte in
the People and Places series, was
hdd last night at Wfldenstein’sArt
Gallery in aid of the Royal
Maisden Hospital's Children's
Appeal Mrs Iris Banham-Leewas
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Sale must
go ahead,
earl says

By Rachel Kelly

PROPERTY CORRESPONDENT

THE Eari and Countess of Harrowby at the gates of Sandon Hall, their family home near Stafford, which dates bade to 1850

THE Eari and Countess of
Harrowtry’s home in Stafford-
shire, Sandon Hall and its
contents will be auctioned by
Sotheby’s on October 6.

“There are some things I
would preferably not have
sold, but it is no good regret-
ting a style of living applicable
to the last century but not to
this one,” Lord Hanbwby
said.

The couple have now moved
into a wing of the house. “It is
a practical way of living in a
massive great house. The ob-
ject is not to have to move out
altogether.”

- As part of that plan, he
wants to open the house to the
public for a series of one-day
tours, and is considering set-
ting up a museum of oddities,
including a rare collection of
first world war posters.

Elevem packets of silk toilet
paper in original wrappers
from about 1 900 are induded
in tire sale.

Anniversaries

Piping

Latest wills I Forthcoming marriages

BIRTHS: Thomas Barnes, Editor
of The Times 1817-41. London.
1785; Andrew Bonar Law, prime
minister 1922-23. Kingston. New
Brunswick. 1 858; Sir Alexander
Korda. Him director. Pusnatur-
paszto, Hungary. 1893.
DEATHS: Tomas de Torque-
mada. first grand inquisitor in
Spain, Avila. 1498; John. Colei
theologian. Sheen. Surrey. 1519;
Gabriel Fahrenheit inventor of
the merairy thermometer. The
Hague. 1 736; Louis XVIII. king of
France 1795-1824. Paris. 1824;
Edward Puscy. leader of the Ox-
ford Movement Ascot Priory.
Berkshire, 1882; Edward
Whymper. mountaineer. Chamo-
nix. 1911: Sir Rooald Ross,
bacteriologist Nobel laureate
1902, London. 1932; John Mc-
Cormack, tenor. Dublin. 1945; Sir
James Jeans, physicist Dorking,
Surrey. 1946; Maria Call as. so-
prano. Paris. 1977.

The Post Office Savings Bank was
established. 1861.

Golden Gillies clasps
resounding victory

By Angus Nicol

Marriage

MrILG.Danrin
and Mis L Nagel
The marriage took place on
Saturday. September 12. at St
Jakobi’S Church. Eirne. of Mr
Robert Darwin, elder son of Mr
and Mrs Erasmus Darwin, of
Kensington, London, -to Miss
Irene NageL daughter of Mr and
Mis Hans-Jurgen Nagel oTEime,
Hanover. Germany.

Thc reception was hdd at the
home of (he bride.

Appointments

Mr William David Matthews to
be a circuit judge, assigned, to the
Midland and Oxford Circuit
Dr Gcofirqr Chapman to succeed
Mr Colin McGarrigte as head-
master of Queen Margaret's
School Yoric. in January 1 993.
Mrs Diana FEiadiCtfi Waildns to
be head of Leaden Han School
Salisbury, from September 1993,
after the retirement of Miss
Jennifer Tyler.

THE second day of the North-
ern Meeting piping competi-
tions began with that for the
Grid Clasp to the Highland
Society's Gold Medal open
only to those who have already
won the gold medal itself
With a free choice of tunes, of
which each competitor had to
submit ten, a concert of great
and historic tunes was JieanL

The prize-winners must
have given die judges consid-
erable pause for though t, there
being no great distance be-
tween them. The winner was
Pipe Major Alasdair Gillies,
who played The End of the
Great Bridge. W illiam Mac-
Callum came second, with an
excellent performance of Rory
Madaude’s Lament Murray
Henderson started the- day. a
little after 8J0 in the morn-
ing, with the nameless tune;
Cherede darievea. ' to take
third prize. In fourth place
came Roderidc MacLeod, who
gave a very fine performance
of the Lament for Padndg Og
MacCrimmon.

Pipe Major Gflfies’s vic-
tories in the dasp and march,
strathspey and red won him
also the Glenmorangie prize
pipe, which is actually a most
handsome decorated quaidu
for the best overall piper.

The remainder of the ceol
beag events occupied the rest
of the day. The first prize for
the strathspey and reel “A”
was won by Roderick Mac-
Leod, the “ET grade event
being won by Scott Drum-

mond. There was a large
entry, as always, for the figs,
which was whittled down to a
short Jeet of eleven. Again, the
competitors were asked to play
two tunes. The winner was
Corporal Gordon Walker.

There are three junior
events at Inverness. The first is
for marches, for pipers under
fifteen years of age. This was
won by Fraser Bruce Walker.
The under- 1 8 march, strath-
spey and reel was won by Iain
Taylor. The Queen’s Own
Highlanders' junior piobair-
eachd event had a large entry,
all of whom had to be under
18. The winner was Neil
Walker, who played Lady
Margaret MacDonald's
Salute.

The Clan sponsor of the
1992 Northern Meeting pip-
ing competitions was Clan
Macpherson. .

RESULTS

Mr Brian Gabon, of Stratford-
upon-Avon, Warwickshire, the
actor who was an authority, on die
plays of Pinero, left estate valued at
£535.176 neL

Mrs Winifred Beatrice Tucker, of
Croydon. Sumy, left estate valued
at £2^29.029 neL
Mr Cyril Arthur Mercy, of Wor-
thing. West Sussex, left estate
valued at Et 1 1,762 net He left a
dozen bottles of Scotch whisky eadi
m two Oxford men “in the hope
that they wiD drink to the health of
and to the damnation of those they
know I have in mind".

lieutenant RJFL Barday
and Miss S.L BaxfaaB
The engagement is announced
between Roger Hamilton Barday.
9th/12th Royal Lancets (Prince of
Wales’s}, only son of Mrs A.
Barday and the late Mr
AG. Barday. of Wrea Green.
Lancashire, and Sarah Louise,
only daughter of Mr and Mis R.C
BoxhalL of Fulham. London.

Butchers’ Company

The Mowing have been ejected
officers of the Butchers’ Company
for the ensuing year Master. Mr
Frederick James M allion; War-
dens. Mr Hyman. Arnold. Mr
Henry Taylor TattersaU. Mr Roy
Edward Seeman. Mr John Mich-
ael Stone and Mr Michael Rudolf
Katz.

Dr JJ». Bidwdl
and Miss N.JEL. Robinson
The engagement is announced
between James Peter, son of Mr
and Mrs A.E. (Peter) BidwelL of
Dufton. Cumbria, and Nina Elise,
daughter of- Mr and Mrs-
D. Robinson, of Ponteland.
Northumberland.

University news

MrAW-F. Fletcher
and Miss EA. Fisher
The engagement is announced
between Alex, son of Mr David
Fletcher, of Thuriesrone. Devon,
and the late Mrs Ada-Maiy
Fleidier. and Emily, daughter of
Mr Edmund fisher, of TwyweH
Northamptonshire, and Mrs
Alton E. Peters, of New York City.

Mr S. Holt

and Miss J. Harding

Steve Holt and Juliet Harding are

happy to announce their

engagement

MrSJP. McLaughlin
and Miss AJ. Carr
The engagement is announced
between Seamus, elder son of Mr
and Mrs John McLaughlin, of
Londonderry. Northern Ireland,
and Annabel, only daughter of Mr

and Mrs Humphrey Carr, of
Ropfoy, Hampshire.

Mr J. Mariand
and Miss S.M. datum
The engagement is announced
between John, only son of Mrand
Mrs John Mariand. of Manor
Farm. Chichester, and Susan,
eldest . daughter of Mr Nigel
Cluttrm. of The Dover House.
Poling. Arundel Sussex, and the
late Mrs Anne Chitton.

The Privy Council has formally
approved the latest new university
names. Leeds Polytechnic will now
be allowed fo call itself L eed s
Metropolitan'. University. Man-
chester Polytechnic will now be
The Manchester Metropolitan
University. •

Clasp: Gold clasp- SoihJeraurchus
trophy and Grainger and Campbell
BratactL* P/M A Gfllies; 2 Wtn
MacDonald trophy. W MicCallum; 3
M Henderson.- 4 RMacLeod.-
straUispey and reel “a": i R MacLeod: .
2 G Taylor: 3 Mary Ann MacKinnon; 4
I Spelts.

Snatlupcy and reel “IT: I s
Drummond; 2 D Campbell; 3 S
Liddell: 4 D MacPbee.
jigs Donald "Ross trophy- CpI G
Walken 2 R MacLeod; 3 W Morrison; 4
I Hunt

Under-15 march: 1 P/M william
Young trophy: F Brace Walken 2 All
Ross trophy A Stevenson; .3 D
MmcLean; 4 K Retd.

Under-) 8 march, strathspey and reel:

I Macinnes cup: r Taylor 2 Clan
MacLeod cup: G MuDiolIand: S N
Walken 4 N Stewart.

Royal patron

Queen Elizabeth The Queen
Mother is to be a patron of the
newly-formed Bedfordshire and
Hertfordshire Historic Churches
Trust

Winning date

Mr J.A.S. Hobbs
and Miss H.L McCann

The engagement is announced
between James, eldest son of Mr
S.H. Hobbs, of . Hambleden.
Oxon. and Mis 5.G. Knight of
Clevedon, Avon, and Heather,
youngest daughter ofMrand Mrs
J. McCann, of Knowsfey VOlage,
Merseyside.

Major AG. Hughes
and Miss P.GJVfcC Hawfces
The engagement is announced
between Major Andrew Hughes.
1 7th/2 1 st Lancers, younger son of
Mr and Mis John Hughes, of
Great Rissington. Gloucestershire,
and Pofty. eldest daughter of Mr
and Mrs- Russell Hawkes. of
Saffron Walden. Essex.

Mr S. Powell
and MM CR. Campbell
The engagement is announced
between Shaun, son of Mr and
Mis William H. Powell of
Wexham, Buckinghamshire, and
Catherine Rebecca, daughter of
Mr and Mis J.B. Campbell of
fiitfbrd, York.

Mr N.R. Roberts
and Miss S.HJWL Gelling -
The engagement is announced
between Nicholas.- son of Mr and
Mis D.W. Roberts, of Caterham.
Surrey, and Susan, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs R.R. Gelling. ,of
Sutton Coldfield. West Midlands.

MrCJJH. Rawftm-Lee
and Mitt K.L Samuel
The engagement is announced
between diaries, elder son of Mr
and Mis HA. Rowton-Lee, of
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire,
.and Katrina, daughter of Mr and
Mis M. Samuel, of Bournemouth.
Dorset

Queen's Own Highiandere* junior
ptobaireactiifc I Evan MacRae trophy.
N Walker; 2 Rhoda MacLeod cup: a
M aoColL 3 G Mulholland; 4 I Taylor

Katie Etherington. a 19year-old
design student from Iver Heath.
Budtinghamriure. who is confined
» a wheelchair by spinal muscular
atrophy, has won the 1992 cal-
endar competition for disabled
artists, sponsored by Sunrise
Medical .

Mr UR. Kerr
and Miss AM. Jones
The engagement is announced
between Lawrence Rich ant only
son of Mr and Mis Richard Kerr,
of Hortey, Sumy, and Amanda
Melissa, only daughter of Dr and
Mrs Trevor Jones, of Reigate,
Surrey.

Mr MJ- Smith
and Min C.T. Oates
The engagement, is announced
between Martin, son of Mr and
Mis KJ. Smith, of Burbage,
Leicestershire, and Catherine,
daughter of Mrand Mrs R. Oates,
of .Braidwood and Sydney,
Australia.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Telefax 071 782 7827

IN MEMORIAM -
PRIVATE ■

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

CONSIMNE - On September
9th 1992. In Victoria. B.C.. to
Susan <nfe Jameson) and
Ctim. a son. Maxwell
CnrMoptwr Jameson.

GIBBS - On September 13th.
In Imemeea. to Leonle and
Joe. a son. Cion Roland
Mem - .

GLOCK - On September loth. * 1
al SI John's Hoepiiatr to Bev-
erly and Paul, a son. Daniel I
Alexander, a brother and
playmate for Christopher. I

GRAHAM - On September I
15th. to Jenny and GoUn. a
son. James Duncan Law.
brother lo Ross.

KITTOW - On September 8th
1992. to Deborah into
Lupprlan] and Jonathan, a
daughter. Lucy Ella, a staler
for Anna.

MOIR - On September 6th. to
Johnny and Mono. In
Bangkok, a daughter. Katie
Pachartn Rosalind.

MORRIS- ADAMS - On
September 6Ui to Catherine
inee Anderson) and Tod. a
son. Hugo Eoenon.

NEU BERGER - On September
6 Ut. to Gillian into Pyntan)
and MtchaeL a daughter.
Anna Saskla Margot.

OKOSO - On September 14th.
at The Humana Hospital,
Wellington, to Frank and
FtdeL a daughter. Melanie.

PEARSON - On SepCember
I3ih. to Jane into T re ays)
and David, a son. Jago Sam-
uel. a brother for Emily.

PLUNKETT - On September
2nd 1992. in New York, lo
Miranda (nee Pascoe) and
Andrew, a son. Oliver
Thomas.

SULLIVAN - On September
x lih. to Hilary into Fay) and
Kevin, a daughter. Alexan-
dra Lucy, a sister Mr Patrick.

VAUGHAN - On September
tSh to DomlnlQue <nte
Guana) and Andrew, a
daughter. Madeleine Emily,
a stater for Jonathan.

JOHNSTON - The family of
Mary Johnston would Uke to
thank the staff of Ward 33
Oarttngton Memorial

Hospital. Parishoners or St.
Augustine's Church,

Darlington and Mary's many
friends for Uietr unstinting
support during her illness,
we wish to give special
thanks lo Canon Soence.
Father Russell and Father
Stott.

BEST - on September x » in. at
Wrexham Park Hospital.
Berks. John Best, aged 87.
Much loved husband of
Yvonne. Funeral Service at
Easttiamsstead Park i

Crematorium on Friday,
September 18th at 2pm. |
Enquiries lo C lovegrave.
SunnlnghlU. Tet 0344 1
221X4.

FAWCETT - On September
6th tragically in an accident
aged 23 years. Odver
Andrew Mark. Much loved
son of David and Beryl and
brother of Stephen. Imogen
and Sarah, a Memorial
Service and reception in
celebration at Oliver's Ufe to
which >o Mends are
welcome will be held on
Saturday September 19th at
12 noon. In the Chapel of
Trinity A AH Saints College.
Brownberrfe Lane.

Horsforth. Leeds. after
private cremation. Any
flowers are lo be warn and
contrtButkms towards Culda
Dogs for the Blind can be
made al the service or sent lo
433 Mean wood Road. Leeds
LS7 2LU

HANSON - On September
13th 1992. peacefully at
Grantham HospUaL

Desmond, beloved husband
of June and father of Cherry .
Gtnny. Anna. Serena and
Lucinda. Funeral Service at
Knlpton on Monday
September 2ist at 2.45 pm.
Family flowers only.
Donations If desired lo the
Knlpton Church Restoration
Fund, c/o Geeson Funeral
Service. Denton. Grantham..

BIRO - On September xsth
1992 peacefully in Retgate.
Arthur Ley land aged 9Q
years. Canon of Guildford,
formerly Rector of sl
P eter's. WaRon-on-the HIU
and Vicar of SL Marys’ and
SL Marks' Burgh Heath.
Much loved rather of Eliza-
beth and George. Funeral
Service on Tuesday Septem-
ber 22nd al 2-30 pm at SL
Peter's Church. Walton-on- '
the HDL Family flowers only
please. If desired donations >
.for Reared Oergy Homes
Fund. Guildford Diocese,
may be sent to Sherlock and ,
Sons. Trellis House. Dorking.

FEATHER - On September
13th 1992 at Kettering
General Hospital. Alice. aged
84 years, of Sudborough.
North Hants, widow or Lord
Vie Feather, mother of Pat
and Sandy, mourned by an
her family Memorial Service
to be held at An Saints Parish
Church, Sudborough on Sun-
day September 200i al 3-30
pm. All welcome. Donations.
If desired, to the British Red
Gross. 9 Crosvenor Crescent
London SW1X 7BR.

HER ROD - On September
13th 1992. NU*. Private
family funeral on Friday
September 18th at- St
Matthew’s Church. Oxon.
Flowers may be sent to St
Matthew’s Church by 1 1 am.
Memorial Service for all
mends will take place an
Monday Se p tember 21 u al Sl
Luke's Church. Sydney St.
Chelsea, at 12 pm. See
Ziegler.

STAHL - On September 14th.
Ernest Ludwig D.IUL Oxon.
peacefully in Oxford, after
illness valiantly fought Bom
SenekaL OPS. South Africa.
December lOUi 1902: son of
Phillip and Theresa Stahl:
beloved husband of Kathleen
for nfly happy years.
Student of Christ Church
J 946- 19159. then student
Emeritus 1960 on. Taylor
Professor of the German
Language and Literature and
Fellow of the Queens College, i
Oxford 1969-09. Private
funeral. Memorial Service lo |
Christ Church later.

SMELLIE • in memory of Che .
98th Birthday of our beloved
Florence Violet -Stephanie
info NarUaro. We wtn
always miss you.

jjgjB

LEGAL NOTICES

IMS

WEST - On September 7th In
Oxford lo Shorn info Smart)
and Ian. a daughter. Laura
Juliette, a sister for Matthew
and Call urn

■LUCRE - On September 13th
1992. peacefully In her sleep,
at the Clarence Nursing
Home. Tunbridge Wens.
Nancy (nfo Wilson;, widow
of Air Vice Marshal “Bobby"
Stuck*. Dear mother of Anne
Routh and the late Group
captain oavjd Blucke. Proud
granny of Malcottn. Peter.
Mark. Charles and Robert,
and great granny to ten
Funeral at Tunbridge Web
Comet ary ChopeL on

Tuesday September 22 nd u 1 * *
2.30 pm. Alt enquiries to
Pant Bysouth Funeral
Services. Qxnsborough.
TeUQ892) 666000

G HEATH URST - On Septem-
ber 1 2th 1992. suddenly at i
Ms home. LL car. tS.CC.1
RJXJR. Dou g las GreathunL
of SUffTtngton. formerly or
London. He win be sadly
missed by his family and
mends. Funeral Service at
Durrtngtofi Cemetery

ChapeL Worming. Sussex,
on Tuesday September 22nd
at UO pm. Flowers, or
donations. U wished, to the
R.S.P.C.A. c/o H.D.Trtbe
Ltd. 130 Broadwater Road.
Worthing. Tet 0905 254616

JACOMB-HOOD - On Sep-
tember 12th 1992.
peacefully after a long ill-
ness. Nancy Isabel Beatrice,
aged 78 of Retgate. beloved
mother of Cedric. Funeral
Service at St Mark* Church.
Reigate Friday September
X8Ui al 4 pm. cremation pri-
vate. Family flowers only.
Do n atio n s for 1st East
Surrey Rangers may be sent
c/o Stoneman Funeral Ser-
vice. Doran Court. Radhm.

THOMPSON - On September I
lSUi 1992. peacefully at I
•Tenterden. Jack. In his 92nd 1 *
year. Beloved husband of
Jackie. Loving father of
Bruce. Annabel. Oiarles and
stepfather of Hubert. Bruno.
Bernard and Patrick Millet.
A much loved tether-in-law
and grandfather. Private
family cremation 'at his
request. No flowers.
Donation* if desired to
RJLF. Benevolent Fund, c/o
Fuggtes. Ashford Rd.
Tenterden, Kent

A list of the names and
a dd r e sse e of llte companies credi-
tors will be svdMk for Uwpec-
Uoo me of charge at BucMer
Plumps a Co.. 8« Os sv awr
Street. London. W1X 9DF
, between 10.00 am and 4.00 mn

and Thursday 34th ffeasember
>902.

Creditors wtshtng to vote at the
meetings must -lodge a fun sun-
mentof aeoouai and an Informal

In geraon a proxy form mind be
lodged at BucMer PhUfpa A Co..

RAYIVER - On August 31st
1992. Dorothy Mary, late of
Retgate. Rugby. Winchester,
Codaiming. Loaiherhead and
Kenya.

GUNN r On September 1 tQx,
peacefully at Patrick Stead
Hospital Margaret (Mara)
Gunn. Funeral Service at St
Mary's Church. HalesworUi.
on Friday September lSUi at
1IJO am. Oon family
flowers only please.
Conations may be made In
aid of Cancer Research to
Woo [no ugh Funeral Service.
Holton Rd. Haleswonh.
Suffolk.

MARRIAGES

TOCKNEUaBEADMAN - On
Saturday September 12th al
Sl Gabriel's Church. Pimlico,
Michael, son of Mr and Mrs
D Toriuiell of Duralo.
Ctouceslerdilre to Susan,
only daughter of Mr and Mrs
D. Bead man of Lincoln.

CANNON - On August 12th
1992 at Sl Albans. Hedtey
John aged 63. Husband of
Ethel Florence (QuconleL
tether of Jennifer and James.
Service at Sc Peters Church.
St Albans at 1.30 pm on
Friday September 18th
followed by cremation at
Garston. Family flowers
only.

GURNER - On September
13th. peacefully In her sleep.
Phyins. aged 96. widow of
Sir Waller Gunter. CAL
LCS. Much loved by her
daughters. grandchildren
and great grand children.
FUneral Service at Kingston
Qwaurlun on Monday
September 21st al 10.30 am.
Enaulries 10 TH Sanders. 1A
Upper Ham Road. Ham. 1
Richmond. 081-649 8967.

RUST - On September 14th
1992. Dr. Loma Joan of
Epsom. Surrey, after an
Ulness Dome with great

courage. Dearly beloved
eldest daughter of MroLRusi
and the late C&pt j A Rust.
Sadly missed by all her fam-
ily and friends. Cremation al
Randans Park, Uatherhead
on Tuesday September 22nd
al 11.30 am. Donations to
the Princess Alice Hospice.
Esher or flowers to A & E
Longtiurs. Funeral

Directors. Kingston Rd.
EweU. Surrey. A M emorial
Service will be held at St.
Martin's of Tours. Epson on
October 10th al 4 pm.

SPITTLE - On September
16th. Mancie Trehame.
dearly beloved mother of
Anrabelie. Marylyn and
Thomas, a Service of
Thanksgiving will be held at
the Holy Trinity Church.
Rvdgwlck. W^ussex. on
September 24th al 11.30 am.
No flowers please, but
donations may be sent to the
Friends of Traglnnls (farm
holidays for inner-city
children). C/o Freeman
Brothers. 9 North Parade.
Hbrsham. W.Susmx.

YANNOPOULOS - On Sep-
tember llth 1992 at Royal
Berkshire Hospital. Reading.
George, aged 66. beloved
brother of Fo Fo and George.
ChrissJe and John and a dear
unde. FUneral Service ax St
Sophia's Cathedral. Moscow
Road. London W2 on Friday
September 18th at 11 am.
Fondly flowers only,
donations to Greek Orthodox
Charity Organisation, c/o
Chrtaanthy Pateras. 32
Hocroft Road. London NW2.
A true privilege lo be pan of
his life. Sadly missed and

forever in our thoughts.

ZIEGLER - On September
I3ui 1992. Killy. Private
ramfty funeral on Friday
September 18th al St
Matthews Church. Oxon. 1
Flowers may be sent 10 St
Matthew's Church by 1 1 am. j
Memorial Service for all 1
friends will take place on ;
Monday September 31* at St I

Luke's Church. Sydney SL ,
Chebea. at 12 pm. See
Herrod.

IN THE MATTER OF
OSCHATO FOOD
HO LOIN GS LIMITED
AND IN THE MATTER OF
THE INSOLVENCY ACT 1986

NOTICE a HEREBY GIVEN
pursuant to Rule *.106 of Ute
Inwlvino' Rules 1986 on 9 Sep-
tember 1999. I Ian Peier Ptutapi
or BucMer PtalDUM a Co.. 8*
Crosvenor Street. London W1X
9DF was eoooUited I WuMQw or
the abave-Damce company by tnc
m e mber s and emttwn.

NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY
GIVEN mat toe creditors of Use

above-named Company, which la
being uoluntarUy wound up. arc
required. - an or More the 9
Dec e rn o cr IW7. to send In Ihetr
nui Onsntn and surn am es, tneir
addressee and dmulinluiia. run
particulars of uidr debts or
claims, end Use names aad
addresses of their Softeners Of
any), to the undersigned Mr 1 p
Phillips. BucMer Ptmilps A Co..
84 Qrosvanor Street. London
W! x 9DF. the Liquidator of the
said Company, end. IT to required
by notice In writing from uw snkl
Lknndater. are. personally or by
their Solicitors. 10 come in and
prove iheOr debts or claims at
such dine and place as Shall be
spooned in such nod Cir. or hi
default thereof they wtn be
ncluded from the benefit or any
distribution made before such

debu are proved.

□teed 9 September 1992

I P PHILLIPS. Uatddn t or.

wix 9DF no loner than 12 noon
on Thursday 24U) September
1992. Secured cxadltors musL
uueas they surrender their secu-
rity. give panicidare or ihdr secu-
rity and Its assessed value If they
wish in vou at the Meettoa s . .
By Order of the Board
9U» September 1992
Q King. Director.

THE INSOLVENCY ACT 1986
MAINLINE LIMITED
Trading Name: Mainline
Appolntmenu. The Wtg * Pen
Agency. Central Appointments.

NOTICE IS HEREBY OTVEN .
Pursuant to Section 98 of Ute
Insolvency Act 1986 that a
MEETING Of tTn CREDITORS Of
bsc above named Company win
be beta on 29tb treplembsr 1992
* 4. CharartMuse Square.

London ECiM 6EN at 1 2.00 noon
for me purposes otendooed In
Seaton 99 ct sea of Use sold Aa.

NOTICE IS FURTHER OVEN
that Terence John Roper FTPA of
*- Charterhouse Square. London.
ECIM 601 Is appointed lo act so
the auattiled Insolvency Practitio-
ner pursuant 10 Section 9B (2Xa)
of the sate Act who wtu furnish
Crejuors wbh such Information
as Own roar romUre.

DATED this 9dt day
of September 1992.

BY ORDER OP THE BOARD
A- MASON. DIRECTOR

TWINLAND LTD.
tin- Administrative Receivership]

T/A 8RANDSHATCH PlACE

AND FREDERICKS HEALTH
AND LEISURE CLUB

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. In
pursuance of Section 48 of the
insolvency An 1986. Uwl a meet-
ing of the creditors of the above-
named company win be naM at
OIKKdtrt of Arthur Andersen. 1
Surrey street. London. WC2R
2PS on Tuesday the 29U> of Sep-
tember 1 992 at 1 0.30 a. m. for Ow
purpose of having aa account laid
before men. mowing the avonte
leading up 10 tbe appomimenL the
maimer In whim uie aondmsm-
ova receivership has been can-
dotted and dm p roperty of the
co m pa n y d ls poee d of. and of
h ea r ing any explanation Uial may
be gtven by me joint AdnUuMne-
uve Receivers.

Creditors whose claims are

whaoy secured are not endued 10
attend or be represented at the
meeting. A person b'atllM to
vote at me m e etin g only if he nos
given to me Rece iv er s , not Imer
than- 12.00 p.m. on the business
day before the above day need
for Ihe meeting, datane In writing
of Ihe debt that he claims to be
.due to Mm from On company,
and ttds claim has beat duly
admitted by the Recovers. A

creditor rnDOed to attend and
vote al the above meeting may
appoint a proxy or praacs to
attend and vote ms lead of him.

Snood you ream re a copy or
Dm . Joint Admlntstrattve
.Receivers Report under Section
48 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
please write to Arthur Andersen,
1 Surrey Street. London
WC2R 2PS.

DATED tbH lain day
of September 1992
AX>. LEWIS

JOtnl Administrative Receiver

T7MSGATE LTD.

■in Administrative Recrlrenhlpl -
T/A NUTFIELD PRIORY
AND FRBianCKB HEALTH ,
AND LBSURE CLUB 1
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. In .
pursuance of -Section 48 of tba
Insolvency Act 1986. that a meet-
ing of the cradnors of the above- 1
named company win be held at
the offices of Arthur Andersen. 1

Surrey, street. London. WC2R
2PB on Tuesday the 29U» of Sep-
tember 1992 at 10.00 mn. for the
purpose at having an account laid
before them. si>o wing the events
leading up 10 tbe appointment, the
manner In which Uw admimstra
Bve receivership has been eon-
ducted and me property of use
company disposed of. and of
hearing any explanation that may
be given ay the Jotm Adndnlstra-
Dve Receivers.

Creditors whose claims are
wtiotly secured are not enaded in
■Wend or be represented at the
meeting, a person la enaded to
v<Me at the meeting only If he has
*»« lo the R eceivers, not later
than 12.00 p m. on dm business
day before tho above day fixed
for the meeting, details In writing
of the debt Dun he claims to be
due to bun from the company,
ana ms ctabn baa -been duly
admitted by the Receivers. A
creditor entitled to attend and
vote at tne above meeting may
appoint a proxy or proxies to
attend and vote Instead of tuna.

Should you raautre a copy of
the Joint Adnuntstrotlve
Receivers Report under Section
48 of the insolvency Act 1986.
Pi ra s e write to Arthur Andersen.

1. Surrey Street. London

THE INSOLVENCY ACT 1986
FX. MORDANT LIMITED
. NOTICE IS HEREBY OVEN
Pursuant lo Section 98 of the
Drpodvtmcy Ad 1986 that a
MEETING of Lite CREDITORS Of
the above named Company wtn
be held an 21 H September. 1992
at 4. Charterhouse Square.
London ECIM 6EN al KL4B am
for Ihe mnposes mentioned in
Section 99 et sea of the said ACL
. NOTICE IS FURTHER OVEN
Bni Terence John Roper. FlPAof
4. Charterhouse Square. London.
ECIM 6t N Is appointed lo act as
the qualified insolvency Practitio-
ner pursuant 10 section 98 C2xa>
of the said Act who will furnish
Creditors with such Information
aa they may require.

DATED pus lljh day
of S e ptember 1992
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD
J-L- MORDANT. DIRECTOR. -

DATED this lC*h day
of September 1992
A.D. LEWIS

Joint Admlnwtranve Receiver

IN THE MATTER OF
PERMANENT MAGNET
MOTORS PLC
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Obituaries

PROFESSOR MARTIN HARRISON

Richard Marlin Harrison,
Roman archaeologist, died at
his home in Oxford on
September 9. 1 992. aged 57. He

was bom at Windsor on May 16,

1935.

THE name of Martin Harrison will
remain associated with three comers
of Turkey, the mountainous country
of Lycia. which he explored for eleven
yprs Istanbul, where he uncovered
the great sixth-centmy church of Sl
P olyeuctos; and Amorion in Phrygia,
whose excavation he initialed.

The son of George Lawrence
Harrison, a precision engineer, he
was educated at Sherborne School
and Lincoln College, Oxford, While
still an undergraduate he began his
training as a field archaeologist, Erst
in Greece, then in Turkey, where he
worked under the late Michael
Gough on the fifth-century ecclesias-
tical complex of Alahan in Isauria.

After graduation he joined the
British Institute of Archaeology at
Ankara, where he started his system-
atic survey of central Lycia and
developed his life-long love of Turkey
and its people. In 1960 he went to
the British School at Rome as Rivoira
Scholar, then served as controller of
antiquities, Cyrenaica (1960-61), ex-
cavating at Ptolemais. Apollonia and
elsewhere.

After a spell of teaching at Bryn
Mawr, he returned to Lincoln Coll-
ege as Glanvflle research student. In
1964 he was appointed lecturer at
the University of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne and remained there until J9S5,
rising to become professor of archae-
ology and head of a department
which he did a great deal to build up.

His appointment at Newcastle
coincided with a unique opportunity
for him. A few years previously
bulldozing operations at Sarachane
in the heart of old Istanbul threw up
several blocks of elaborately decorat-
ed marble bearing some lines of
Greek inscription that were identified
as belonging to the church of St
Polyeuctos, built by the Princess
Aniria Juliana (524-27). A rescue
excavation to be conducted jointly
with the Archaeological Museum of
Istanbul was underwritten by Dura-

Martin Harrison and. left, the
excavation of St Polyeuctos

barton Oaks Byzantine Centre of
Harvard University and Martin
Harrison was put in charge.

He worked assiduously for six
seasons in harmonious collaboration
with his Turkish co-director Nezih
Firaili (who died, also in his fifties, in
1 979). The site was very large and
produced an overwhelming mass of
finds. The superstructure of the
church, alas, was found to be gone,
but enough remained to establish its
main features and identify it as an
immediate predecessor of St Sophia.
Most remarkable was the marble
carving in an exuberant and exotic
style, fragments of which, removed
from the church at Polyeuctos in the
Middle Ages, were traced to Venice
(including the “Pilasfcri Acritani"),
Barcelona and Vienna.

The publication of the details of St
Polyeuctos. the first major strati-
graphic excavation to have been
conducted at Istanbul, naturally re-
quired a long time and was delayed

until 1986 ( Excavations at
Sarachane in Istanbul vol. I). Vol-
ume 2 on the pottery (by John Hayes)
followed in 1 992. Whilst devoting his
energies to~ the classification of the
enormous variety of artefacts pro-
duced by the excavation, Martin
Harrison could not help being puz-
zled fry the strangeness of the
monument he had uncovered.

What was the meaning of this vast
church measuring exactly 100 "roy-
al'' cubits square, decorated with
peacocks, palm trees, lilies, vine-
scrolls and lattice-work? He came to
the conclusion that it was built as a
recreation of Solomon's Temple, a
tantalising theory that he developed
in A Temple for Byzantium (Harvey
Miller. 1989).

After the field-work on St
Polyeuctos had been completed, he
returned to his Jong-running survey
of Lyda. In 1985 he moved bade to
Oxford as Professor of the Archaeolo-
gy of the Roman Empire and Fellow

of All Souls College, but tragically,
during the first year of his tenure
suffered a stroke which impaired his
speech and undermined his great
energy. Undeterred by this disability,
he was determined to cany on his
work.

Always happier in the field than at
his desk, he began looking for
another major site to excavate and
settled on the city of Amorion. the
central defensive post of Byzantine
Asia Minor, famous in history and
legend.

It was not an easy site to work on.
hot and dusty in the summer and
lacking the most basic facilities. But it
offered rich rewards. A lesser man
might well have hesitated to take on
such a task, but Harrison plunged
into it with his usual enthusiasm. In
1991 die university made it possible
for him to retire from teaching and
his chair, and to take the new title of
Research Professor of Roman Ar-
chaeology. He was determined to

continue with Amorion. In spite of
his diminished vigour and the diffi-
culty of obtaining funds, he put in six
gruelling seasons, the last in August
1992. Within a fortnight of his
return home he died. He had
returned, however, enthusiastic
about the season just completed and
looking forward to the next.

In 1959 he married Elizabeth
Harkness- Browne, who was his con-
stant companion and helper in all his
archaeological ventures. Naturally
gregarious, open and generous, he
was the antithesis of the pedantic
professor and had a wide circle of
friends, many of whom were also his
collaborators and former students.

His early death deprives Oxford of
a scholar who would have done even
more to develop late Roman archae-
ology. beyond its traditional Euro-
pean stronghold and restrictive
chronological limits. It also leaves a
great deal of unfinished business
which, it is hoped , others will cany
forward.

He is survived by his wife, a son
and three daughters.

BRIGADIER GERALD
THUBRON

Brigadier Gerald Ernest
Thubron. DSO. OBE,
second world war soldier.

died in Sussex on
September 6 aged 89. He
- was bora in .London pn.
Jnfyl3. 1903. .

GERALD Thubron was a
sbldier of distinction 1 '-who
fought through three impor-
tant campaigns of the second
world war. A man of conspicu-
ous integrity and courage, he
was admired by his soldiers
and relished by everyone who
enjoyed his irrepressible
humour.

Yet he once said that he was
not a bom soldier. He ddight-
ed in the quiet of landscape
an d history — in later life he
wandered Roman roads and
Iron Age forts on the Sussex

tioned in dispatches. Yet he
was a man of great modesty
who ridiculed pretension and
military bores. When asked
about his war experiences, he
would deflect the conversion to
humorous detail (in the
Appenines he onoe wrote or-
ders sitting ori a supposedly

dead pig untflitrose squealing
jolted) or told how he

Downs — and he might even
lithologist.

have become an ornithologist.
But die example of his father,
who died of wounds in the first
world war when Thubron was
only 1 2, spurred him on to the
army. So did his mother. She
was a Boston American, a
descendent of Samuel Morse

— inventor of the Morse Code

— and she remained eccentri-
cally spirited far into middle
age. when she still rode pillion
on her son's motor bike.

For much of the first world
war Thubron was educated at
Lancing, where he was a
contemporary of Evelyn
Waugh and the future archae-
ologist Max Mallowan (who
later married Agatha Chris-
tie). It was a grim time. At the
end of every term many
school-leavers went to their
death in the trenches, and
there were air crashes in the
surrounding fields.

But Thubron went on to
Sandhurst, then to a commis-
sion in the North Stafford-
shire Regiment in 1924.
There followed more than 1 3

years' service in India at a time
of deceptive peace before he
was recalled to Britain in
1 938, to fill several staff and
instructors' posts.

His war service began in
earnest in 1 942, when he was
appointed Senior General
Staff Officer for the 1 st British
Infantry Division. He fought
through the harsh Tunisian
campaign, which ended vic-
toriously in May 1 943. Eipht
months later his division
spearheaded the Allied land-
ings at Arurio. and endured
four months of bitter fighting.
In all he offered vital continu-
ity to four successive divisional
commanders, then headed the
2nd Battalion the North Staf-
fordshire Regiment from the
capture of Florence through
the Appenines offensive to
Bologna He loved the greater
self-reliance and contact with
his troops which regimental
command afforded, and his
men reciprocated. The Battle
of Marradi was to be embla-
zoned on the regimental
colours.

The end of the war found
him a brigade commander in
Austria, awarded the DSO,
appointed OBE and men-

and bol , .. .

heard Gigli singing at Caser-
ta. Only reluctantly would he
mention that he was nearly hit
by machine-gun fire, in the
mountains (die shot killed his
mule instead) or that he was
blown down a flight of steps
when an ammunition ship
exploded in Naples. After the
war his appointments includ-
ed a period as Commandant
of the Senior Officers' School,
and three years as Senior
Army Liaison Officer in Cana-
da. His final post was as
Deputy Director of Military
Training at the War Office.
He retired in 1956. '

Towards the end of
Thubron’s life a dormant skin
cancer erupted — it had been
bred by the tropical sun from
' his early years in India and in
North Africa — and necessitat-
ed several operations. Endur-
ing them all with witty self-
deprecation. he surfaced from
his anaesthetic to mutter at the
intravenous tube in his arm:
"One drip healing another."

Never was a man less insip-
id But like many soldiers he
was un warlike in tempera-
ment and delighted in sketch-
ing and wildlife. His marriage
to Eve Dryden (of the family of
the poet John Dryden) was for
■ more than 60 years the central,
happiness of his life. Of his
three children, his daughter
Carol died by aoddent aged
21: his son is the travel writer
and novelist Cotin Thubron:
and Jater he adopted a second
daughter, Sarah.

SIR ROBERT
MICKLETHWAIT

Sir Robert “Robin"
(Gore) Middethwait QG
a former chief national
insurance commissioner,
died on September 8 aged
89. He was born on
November?, 1902.

FROM the moment he be-
came a deputy national Insur-
ance commissioner in 1959.it
was assumed that Robin
Micklethwah had been pre-
selected to succeed to the top
job. His aunt Dame Louisa
Aid rich- Blake, die first En-
glishwoman to become a mas-
ter of surgery, had bequeathed
him a deep interest in (and
understanding of) medicine.
Together with his reputation
as a lawyer, this made him
seem a natural candidate for
the post

He accordingly inherited
the mantle two years later, as
national insurance and indus-
trial injuries commissioner
hearing soda! security ap-
peals. He held the appoint-
ment until 1975. the title
having been changed to that
of chief commissioner nine
years earlier.

He did much to add legal
authority to the system, estab-
lishing case law to replace
bureaucratic controls and
lending his own reputation to
the role. A man of huge
integrity and sense of duly.
Middethwait was knighted in
1964.

At the same time he pro-
gressed within the Middle
Temple. He was made a
bencher in 1951. taking one
of the few places reserved for
junior counsel, was Autumn
Reader (lecturing to legal stu-
dents) in 1964, deputy trea-
surer in 1970 and finally
treasurer (effectively the presi-
dent of an inn of court) in the
following year.

Some colleagues wonder.

however, if Middethwait
could not have climbed still
higher in Jus profession if he
had been more overtly ambi-
tious. When elected a bencher
while still only a junior, he had
to give a customary undertak-
ing not to take silk for at least
two years.

The main purpose of this
was to inhibit “leap-frogging."
As most benchers were QCs.
elected according to seniority
and distinction, a barrister
who took silk while a young
bencher, would be jumping
the queue of aspiring senior

advocates. Middethwait scru-
pulously observed the under-
taking (not all did] and did not
take silk until 1956. But the
moment at which a barrister
takes silk is always a matter of
delicate timing, if he is not to
lose out in the scramble for
briefs.

Some say Middethwait
missed the best window of
opportunity. Had he leapt
through it at the right moment
he might well have become the
head of the Oxford dreuit —
usually a stepping stone for an
aspiring High Court judge

Whh a father and father-in-

law both eminent silks, he
certainly enjoyed an enviable
legal pedigree Bom in Wim-
bledon, with a second home
near Chepstow, he went to
Clifton College and Trinify,
Oxford, where he read classics
before being called to the bar
in 1925. He served in. the
Royal Observer Corps from
1938 to 1940 but then spent
the war working at Blenheim
Palace as a War Office civil
assistant on duties which he
never disdosed, even to his
family.

He was made recorder of
Worcester in 1 946 and deputy
chairman of Staffordshire
Quarter Sessions in 1956.
resigning from both appoint-
ments on joining the National
Insurance Commission.
Meanwhile he served on the
general council of the Bar in
1939-40 and again between
1952 and 1956. and on the
Supreme Court Rule Commit-
tee. 1952-56.

An honorary doctorate of
law was conferred on him by
Newcastle university in 1976
and he was made an honorary
knight of the philanthropic
Society of Knights of the
Round Table in 1972. His
only publication was The
National Insurance Commis-
sioners. published as a paper-
back by Hamlyn in 1976. His
old job now belongs to the
Chief Commissioner of the
Office of Social Security Com-
missioners.

A diffident man with great
charm, Middethwait took to
mountaineering as a young
man and scaled the Matter-
horn, among other Alpine
peaks. In later years he took to
organic gardening, introduc-
ing white lines to guide him
through the cabbages when
impeded fry failing sight

He leaves a widow, daugh-
ter and three sons.

Horticulture

Autumn gold medals galore at Westminster show

By Alan Toogood, horticulture correspondent

AUTUMN has arrived slight-
ly early this year, which has
enabled better displays of au-
tumn foliage tints and bernes
to be staged at the Royal
Horticultural Society's great
autumn show than has been

possible in recent years.

The well-supported show,
which opened in Westminster
yesterday, is also strong on
roses and dahlias. A targe
exhibit of dahlias from Aylett
Nurseries, of St Albans, Hert-
fordshire, forms an impressive
centrepiece in the New Hall.
Virtually every class or dahlia
is represented. The exhibit has
been awarded a gold medal.

Autumn leaf colour is pro-
vided mainly fry culuvars of
Acer palmamm or Japanese

maples. Principally Plants, of
Pul borough, West Sussex,
have come up with; the novel
id ea of duplicating their collec-
tion of cultivate half showing
summer foliage and the other
half autumn leaf colour. So
one can see, for example, how..
Aoerpaimatum ‘SuminigashP
looks in summer when dad
with green foliage and in
autumn when it turns deep
scarlet. The plants in summer
foliage were imported in the
dormant state from New Zea-
land in late March and came
into leaf in mid-July.

Trees, shrubs and other
ornamental plants are fea-
tured in a large gold-medal
exhibit from Bumcoose and
South Down Nurseries, of

Redruth, Cornwall. They
range from a fiery group of
Crocosmia ‘Orangeade’. C.
‘Red' Star*. Nandina dom-
estica 'Firepower', Mahonia
beald and kniphofias, to a
"cool" group of blue hydran-
geas and variegated-leaved
plants.

The Sir Harold Hillier Gar-
dens and Arboretum, of.
Ampfield, Hampshire, have
staged a collection of fruits
from ornamental plants, such
as the red strawberry-like
fruits of Comus kousa
dtinensis. the blue “beans" of
Decaisnea fargesii. and the
large pink fruits of Magnolia
tripetala. No touts Nurseries,
of Woodbridge. Suffolk, are
also showing hardy plants for

autumn colour and interest,
induding a columnar moun-
tain ash, Sorbus ‘Ghose’, with
red berries, an ideal tree where
space is limited. The exhibit
has been awarded a gold
medal.

A collection of conifers with
attractive foliage has been
staged by Sheffield Park
Garden, of Uckfield, East
Sussex. This gold-medal ex-
hibit includes blue, gold and
pendulous kinds: and Pinus
montezumae with large
bundles of long glaucous nee-
dles forms a dram tic focal
pointOther gold-medal win-
ners are S. and N. Brackley, of
Wingrave. Buckinghamshire
(sweet peas): Heather and
Brian Hiley. of Wellington,

Surrey (tender perennials); C.
and K. Jones, of Tarvin,
Chester (roses); Marston Exot-
ics, of Madley. Hereford
and Worcester (carnivorous
plants): Three Counties Nurs-
eries, of Bridport, Dorset
(garden pinks); Philip Tivey
and Sons, of Syston, Leicester-
shire (dahlias); and Tropical
Rain Forest, of Leeds, West
Yorkshire (bromeliads).

There are autumn-flower-
ing bulbs of all kinds, indud-
ing colchicums and miniature
hardy cyclamen. Broadleigh
Gardens, of Bishops Hull.
Somerset, are featuring colchi-
cums, induding the new ‘Pink
Goblet' with large goblet-
shaped pink-mauve flowers.

Autumn-flowering gentians

are creating brilliant splashes
of blue throughout the show.
The collection from Holden
Gough Nursery, of Bolton-fry-
Bowland, Lancashire, in-
dudes a new hybrid with extra
large flowers named ‘Excelsi-
or’. which produces its vivid
blue flowers from August to
late October.

The smallest of the autumn
gentians. Gen ti ana omata,
which is best grown in a
trough, is included in the
exhibit from Edrom Nurser-
ies, of Coldingham. Berwick-
shire.

The show, in the Old and
New Horticultural Halls, Vin-
cent Square and Greycoat
Street, Westminster, is open
today from 10am to 5pm.

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Appreciations

Ian Godfrey

YOUR obituary of Ian God-
frey (September 10) rightly
dwell on his contribution to
the world of art and pottery.

Little is known about his
early days and some might
argue that they are of minor
interest I would disagree with
that view because it was in that
period, during the late 1950s
and early 1960s. that his
unorthodox attitudes and be-
liefs were formed.

It is almost 30 years since
lan and 1 saw each other.
However, for five years or so
we were dose fraternal com-
panions. At that stage he was
attending the Camberwell
School of Art and was making
the transition from painting to
pottery.

My most vivid recollection
of him was his wonderful
sense of humour which he not
unnaru rally introduced into
his work. That sense of hum-
our. which we shared, has
stayed with me to this day.

He was the least pretentious
person I ever knew and his
intense enthusiasm for the
things which he considered
important was infectious. He
had a childlike simplicity al-
lied to a determination to go
his own way.

His passion for form relat-
ing to objects from the distant
past was exhilarating for me.
At that time he was having a
"love affair" with pre-Colum-
bian an.

Diffident, even shy. in his
relationships with other
people, and quite indifferent
to contemporaiy evetyday
matters, he always seemed to
me a man out of time.

News of his premature
death, despite my having nei-
ther seen nor spoken to him
for so long, made me realise
what a rare creature he was.
The description whimsical
and. perhaps, mythological,
has been used by others, and it
seems entirely apposite.

Ian would have been indif-
ferent to yet another seal of
approval bestowed on him by
the Establishment these past
few weeks, but would have
revelled in the irony of the
situation. He was nothing, if
not an outsider.

His imperishable memorial
is enshrined in his unique and
undassifiable "pots" and. for
me. in his integrity. My joy is
that I was there at the nativity
of what history might decide is
an eternal talent and that i
knew the man.

John Houlihan

Admiral Sir

Guy Grantham

THE obituary on Sir Guy
Grantham (September 12)
finished with nis period as
Governor of Malra in 1962.
From 1962 to 1 970 he was a
member of the Common-
wealth War Graves Commis-
sion and its vice-chairman
from 1963 to 1970. He was
an assiduous member of the
commission, touring to see its
world-wide work.

In March 1965 I was
serving as the commission's
area superintendent in die
Eastern Mediterranean when
Sir Guy came to Greece and
Turkey to see that all was well
before the pilgrimage of 350
Anzac veterans on the 50th
anniversary of the landings at
Gallipoli.

We visited all the 32 ceme-
teries in Anzac. Suvla and
Helles areas in spite of foe
difficult ground terrain which
in places was not passable with
a four-wheel-drive tractor, so
we walked.

As well as being a great
ambassador for the commis-
sion he took a great interest in

the staff and their families,
especially small children,
many of whom were serving in
remote locations. I well re-
member the help he gave my
seven-year-old son to light a
fire of brash-wood to bofl the
ketde for tea on a damp
March day in Greece.

John Paton

Richard Bums

1 AM deeply saddened that
Richard Bums (obituary, Sep-
tember 9) may have felt that
public and financial recogni-
tion was too often withheld
from him. This is almost
unbearably poignant because
he was indeed one of the finest
novelists of his generation.

The Arts Council provided
him with one of its Writers'
Bursaries only two years ago.
These -are highly competitive
but they allowwriters to have a
period of time during which
they can simply write unbur-

dened by immediate financial
pressures. Richard Bums was
Identified fry the judges in
1991, Nina Bawden. Alison
Blair-Underwood and Kama-
la Markandaya. as an out-
standing talent whose
development they wished to
encourage.

it is tragic that by his own
hand this promise is cut off.
but the achievement which
remains will be lastingly
impressive.

DrAlastair Niven
Literature Director
Arts Council

sept i 6 On this day 1936

Jack Buchanan in top hat.
white tie and tails, danced,
flirted and joked his wry
Through somcwdl-toved
musical shows in between the
wo world wars. Elsie
Randolph, who died in 1 982,
dancer, singer and lively
actress, was perhaps his ideal
partner.

PALACE THEATRE

“THIS'LL MAKE YOU
WHISTLE"

Book by Guy Bolton and
Fred Thompson; Music and
Lyrics by Sigler. Good hart
and Hoffman.

Bill Hopping-... Jack Buchanan

Archie Codringion ... David

Hutcheson

Reggie Benson William Kendall

Joan Longhurst Jean Gillie

Laura Buxton— Sylvia Leslie

Mrs Longhurst..... Maidie Hope
Bobbie Rivers .... Elsie Randolph

Mrs Crimp Irene Vere

Unde Sebastian. .Charles Stone
Mr Jack Buchanan chooses
to call his new entertainment
neither a musical comedy
nor a revue, but simply a
show. It is indeed as loosely
constructed as must be the
joints of Mr David
Hutcheson, who performs
such serpentine evolutions
with intoxicated legs. But fry
pushing the conventional
plotlessness of musical com-
edy a stage nearer than has
been previously done to the
point of having no plot at all,
he gains a sort of evenness of
texture which gives a differ-
ent kind of unity to the
whole. The downing is all of
a piece; there is none of the
uneasy shifting back and
forth between sugary senti-
ment and red-nosed farce
which sometimes makes
these performances a succes-

sion of jolts for the audience:
everything is on the same
plane of cheerful idiocy.

The nearest approach to a
plot consists of a series of
episodes, in which Mr Bu-
chanan, who is already on
with the new love and rea-
sonably desires to be off with
the old. endeavours to de-
stroy his twi reputation in
the eyes, first of the uncle
from whom the lady to be
discarded has expections.
and then of the lady herself.
The respectable Unde Se-
bastian turns out to be the
victim of lifelong repres-
sions. which the example of
Mr Buchanan at last breaks
through, with catastrophic
results upon his behaviour,
and the conspirator, having
failed as a rake, has to try his
luck as a criminal. This is all;
and it is not very new; but
Mr Buchanan has an engag-
ing faculty of making old
jokes sound new. and mak-
ing new mirth out of lines
that no one else would have
noticed were funny at an.

The chief success of the
evening is that of Miss Elsie
Randolph, blandly and im-
pudently occupying the
centre of the conspiracy, and
dancing with an ease and
variety that make the dance
seem the only natural means
of locomotion. She should,
however, be relieved of a
peculiarly ugly and stupid
turn entitled "YouVe got the
wrong Rumba.” Miss Jean
Gillie, as the new love of Mr
Buchanan, has a simple
grace, and would no doubt
establish a ready intimacy
with the audience in a small-
er theatre; but her pleasant
voice has not the power forso
large a stage. The bold
primary colours, and final
black and white, used for
dressing the chorus, make
many pretty pictures.

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bilateral meetings between
Michael Portillo, the Trea-
sury chief secretary, and
spending ministers is now
over, and tomorrow’s meet-
ing, chaired by Mr Lament,
will be the first at which
priorities for next year are
determined.

One minister closely in-
volved said that the problems
involved in this year's round
“dwarfs anything we have
seen before" and the prime
minister’s decision to weigh
in himself showed how hard it
may be to keep to the agreed
spending level of £244 billion.
Michael Howard, the envi-
ronment secretary, is under-
stood to be seeking about £2
billion extra to ease the im-
pact of the council tax.

Labour said that the gov-
ernment had at last recog-
nised the seriousness of the
economic situation. Tony
Blair, the shadow home secre-
tary. said: “Having refused a
request to recall Parliament
in order to debate the grave
state of the British economy,
the prime minister, by his
decision to cancel his visit to
Spain, has admitted how seri-
ous the situation has become.
But there is little point in
taking this decision and re-
maining in Britain unless he
ceases his policy of inactivity
and begins to act on jobs.

industry and the housing
market."

In Strasbourg yesterday
Theo Waigel. the German
finance minister, said he
supported the government’s
commitment not to devalue
the pound. He also insisted
that the Bundesbank was not
bowing to political pressure
from Bonn in a speech which
appeared to confirm that the
German government is anx-
ious to keep the Maastricht
treaty on track.

He welcomed the devalua-
tion of the lira and added that
realignment of the monetary
system should' not be neces-
sary in the coming weeks: “I
am certainly not envisaging
such a measure at this point
For the moment member
governments have undertak-
en to maintain their ex-
change rates.”

Asked about the pound .
now the weakest currency in
the system, Herr Waigel said:
“I don’t think the govern-
ment of the UK would accept
a realignment I think that is
right I respect that decision.”
He said Britain had a "com-
pletely different" budgetary
policy to Italy.

GiscanTs lament page II
Leading article
and letters, page 15
Sterling on floor, page 19
Business Comment page 23

‘No’ vote could end
defence of sterling

Future voters: Paddy Ashdown meeting children yesterday at a creche provided for Liberal Democrat delegates in Harrogate

T

Conference sketch

Enter Joseph . . . pursued by an ass

Continued from page 1
past currency crises. Italy has
lost almost all its internation-
al reserves and now owes up
to DM24 billion to the Ger-
man government to repay the
Bundesbank's intervention.
Eventually the lira was still
devalued despite interest
rates of almost 20 per cent

"Most people have been
surprised by the scale of the
speculative flows.” said one
senior offical, adding that the
effects of financial deregula-
tion and the abolition of ex-
change controls around the
world, had transformed the
odds faced by central banks
in trying to defends their ex-
change rates. “The wiiling-
ness to respond in all dimen-
sions. including interest rates
and intervention, has got to
be in proportion to the size fo
the flows and these are much
bigger than ever before”.

Asked what level of interest
rates might be required to
stop a speculative attack on
sterling, this official pointed
to Sweden. Sweden has
raised interest rates as high as

75 per cent and said it would
raise foreign borrowings of
up to 25 per cent of its GDP
to defend the krona, in rela-
tion to the size of Britain's
economy this would be equiv-
alent to £150 billion. “I am
not suggesting that we would
have to what they did in
Sweden, but it does give an
indication of the scale of the

flOWST*.

A sked whether a two-per-
centage point increase in
interest rates would suffice to
defend sterling in the case of a
French “no” vote he said: “It
is all a matter of convincing
the markets of our serious-
ness. It would be a major step
to have an increase of two,
three or four percentage
points, and the government
has made it dear that such an
increase would take place if
necessary”.

There also appear to be
doubts, in the markets and in
official aides, about Britain’s
ability to defend the pound
even if its prepared to take
extreme measures.

Af esterday, Charles Kennedy MP.

Z president of the Liberal Demo-
crats, made his annual speech to
delegates: eloquent, thoughtful, in-
tellectually streets ahead of the oth-
ers. Mr Ashdown made a well-
trailed visit to a creche. We were
able to compare two diverging
styles.

Nobody knows why Kennedy
omitted the quotation from Waiting
JbrGodot which appeared in his pre-
released text “ The tears of the world
an a constant quantity. For each
one who begins to weep, somewhere
else another stops. The same is true
of the laugh" Perhaps it came too
dose to an allied thought: that the
nincompoopeiy of this world is also
a constant quantity. For each down
who ceases cavorting for the media
circus, there is another to pick up
the mop and siBy nose. Neil Kin-
nock has quit the photo-op champi-
onships. Yesterday. Paddy Ashdown
visited a hostel for homeless young
families.

I arrived before him, to encounter
an extraordinary scene. In the room
he was to enter, facing a terrifying
bank of lights, cameras and micro-
phones. sat four frightened-looking
young women and a timid youth

with no socks. The group was ar-
ranged in a semi-circle around the
stage-props of a nursery: mini-tram
polene, red plastic rocking-machine,
tray of wooden building blocks and
wendy-house.

The first woman, who was Monde,
held in her arms a female toddler,
also blonde. The second woman (au-
burn) held a tiny baby (auburn fluff).
A brown-haired woman in hot-pants
rocked a medium-sized baby (bald).
The young man sat on the floor,
staring at the carpet The Ughts
went up. The whole scene resembled
an audition for a nativity play,
awaiting Joseph.

Behind the cameras (there were
eight), journalists and interviewers
were already assembled: in total 1 5.
This was a s mall room but it was not
dear whether we were supposed to
make any kind of direct contact with
the cast Nobody did. We were reluc-
tant to disturb on-stage arrange-
ments. The human tableau sat
silent, frozen.

'Dut where was Joseph? Outside, a
bronze Mercedes pulled up.
“He’s just coming to the door,”
whispered a party ofifidaL Camera-
men readied tripods.In strode Jo-

seph. purposefully. Had the cam-
eras trussed this moment, he would
have gone out again and strode m.
purposefully, a second time. “Hi-
yahT he said to the women, and — it
being dear that the microphones
thrust before him were switched on
— began a stilted conversation.

“Sorry about that crew ” he said,
pointing reproachfully at us whom
his press handouts had urged to
attend. “It’s crowded, isn’t it?” he
quipped, lunging at the babies, cam-
eras in his wake. Someone whis-
pered: “There’s gonna be a baity
squashed before the day’s out.”

“So you're here?” he remarked,
iOuminatingty, to one mother. Mrs
Ashdown sat next to the wendy-
house looking disgusted, while be
fingered the back of her neck.

“When do you think you'll be able
to move?" he asked another mother.

"We don’t want to. it’s nice here”
she said. Oops. The toddler retreat-
ed into the wendy-house, barricad-
ing itself in while Paddy urged Jane
to pour some mock-tea from the
toddler's toy teapot. She knelt down
at the wendy-house door f*oh my
knees!”) and solicited a cup from the
toddler “Then I can tip it over that
funny man,” said Mrs Ashdown,

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1992

Britain

details

Bosnia

forces

Continued from page I
new batch of UN troops have
yet to be discussed. A plan-
ning team leaves for Zagreb
tomorrow to make arrange-
ments for the arrival of Brit-
ish troops. The other main
contributors will be France,
Canada and Spain. The
routes for the conveys and the
location of the battalion
groups include areas that
have been affected by fierce
fighting, such as between Sa-
rajevo and Gorazde, Banja
Luka and Bihac.

To underline ihe potential
dangers for the British
troops, Muslim. Croat and
Serb forces engaged in artil-
lery and infantry battles
across Bosnia, adding to the
official toll of 80 dead and
550 wounded in the 24 hours
up to yesterday morning.

The Bosnian Serb news
agency reported Muslim at-
tacks around Bihac and [n
eastern Bosnia and said
Croats had fired on Bosanski
Brod across the river which
divides Croatia from north-
ern Bosnia. Sarajevo radio
said Yugoslav aircraft had hit
Bihac and that Serb forces
had attacked Jajce, Bihac.
Tuzla and Zeba as well as
suburbs of Sarajevo.

The Muslim-held Bosnian
town of Sokolac in the north-
west of the farmer Yugoslav
republic was "practically de-
stroyed” in a Serb air raid on
Monday, it was reported yes-
terday. it was described as the
most serious air auack of the
Bosnian war so far.

In spite of the upsurge in
fighting, Bosnia's leaders
bowed to international pres-
sure yesterday and reluctantly
agreed to attend peace talks
in Geneva on Friday. Presi-
dent Izetbegovic changed his
mind, after initially announc-
ing that he would boycott the
meeting. Radovan Karadzic,
the Bosnian Serb leader and
Mate Boban, the Croat lead-
er. are also expected.

Following the arrival in
Britain of the wounded from
Bosnia yesterday, the Foreign
Office said that although
each case would be reviewed
after six months, there was an
open-ended commitment “in
view of the present situation".

Claud Vaillat, a spokesman
for the International Com-
mittee of the Red Cross in
Geneva which arranged the
flight and requested the Brit-
ish government's assistance,
said the mission was a land-
mark which might herald the
freeing of thousands of other
detainees.

Operation unknown, page 12
Leading artide. page 15

with a sudden smite. The toddler
obliged. Joseph continued to cross-
question the Marys as to their per-
sonal circumstances. Cameras
whined. Then, as camera-noise sub-
sided.* 1 “Okay. Right Well thanks
very much indeed.”

“TV crew bade up.” an official
shouted, “stflls-cameras in." This
didn’t need soundtrack. “Can you
look at each other, Paddy and Jane,” 1
shouted a photographer. Click,
flash. Then Mr Ashdown moved to
the other end of the room (different
backdrop) and conducted two quick
interviews about Bosnia.

Then he left for the conference
creche. Having scared the mums, it
was time to frighten the kids.

T he conference itself debated
prostitution. A Welsh delegate
made a brave if unlikeable speech,
calling prostitution a disease to be
eliminated, not legalised.

She got an icy reception from an
audience few if any of whom would
use a prostitute. At a Tory confer-
ence she would have been cheered to
the rafters by a great many men who
do.

Matthew Parris

THE TIMES CROSSWORD NO 1 9,025

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ACROSS

I Ugly surroundings of square
where bandits lurk (4-4).

5 Orders to a senior officer if cut off
(b).

10 Frenzied Malawi going round in
cirdes - fuel is hard to find 18.7).

1 1 Original estate holds right to a
court record (7)..

12 One of a couple liable to be
removed by a keeper (3.4).

13 Where the highwayman de-
manded your money? (4-4).

1 5 Old form of chair lift (5).

18 More mature sample of alcohol
derivative (5).

20 Tinker makes a profit, the cun-
ning fellow (S).

23 Repellent old woman holding
mass pf dough has to move
clumsily (7).

25 Camp in small cottage by lake
17).

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fallible heresy! (IS).

27 The currency is not hard (6).

28 Fear to go rambling without this
(4-4)—

DOWN

1 Monkey that uners long doleful
cries (6).

2 Mysterious Dickensian grabbing
one-foot-wide bit of umber (9).

3 It’s a bore to lubricate property
13,4).

4 The rise and fall of belief (5).

( Sergeant detailed to turn out gets

mad (7).

7 Mediterranean city turned up-
side down to accommodate sin-
gle lady (5).

8 Prince has a thing about the
Spanish (S).

9 Unfaithfulness of a grown-up on
the end of private Line (8).

14 Admirer of beauty scoffed about
these resorts (8).

1 6 Make up one's mind to settle (91.

17 An unlikely bet. putting mon^ -
on ghosr being cast out (4,41.

19 Right country church for a love
store 17).

21 Old-fashioned company — one in
Coventry (7).

22 He makes deliveries in Anglo-
French waters (6).

24 Not rich, keeping a married
mistress (5J.

25 Start to cram old ship with

freight (5).

Concise Crossword, page 9
Life & Times section

A daily safari through the
language jungle. Which definitions
arc correct?

By Philip Howard

NOSOPHOBIA
Fear of becoming iD

Disfihe of long noses

An allergy to looking behind

VACCIMULGENCE

Indulgence to fools

Miuiaam

Natural vaccination

FOVEATE

Pitted, pock-marked

Favoured by Kale

Shaped like a trefoil

POCULATION

Looking after pigs

WinebWjinj

Counting on one's fingers

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TODAY IN
BUSINESS

MADE IN WALES

As the economic gloom
deepens elsewhere.
Wales is enjoying a
jobless level that is
below the national
average
Page 23

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STOCKED UP

The proceeds of last
year's rights issue
helped MB-Caradon to
a 28 percent pre-tax
profits rise
Tempos, page 22

FLAT BREW

Foster's Brewing, a
1 980s glamour stock,
has had to shore up its
balance sheet after
A$95 1 million of losses
Page 2 1

DELTA DOWN

Delta Group has held
die dividend at 4.2p a
share, despite first-half
pre-tax profits down
from £33.1 million to
£3 1,0 million
Tempos, page 22

JOBS BOOST

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In Antrim, 500 jobs
will be created by the
reopening of an
artificial fibres plant
dosed for ten years
Page 20

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER. l'6'1992

BUSINESS EDITOR JOHN BELL

Bank of England stance surprises dealers

Pound falls close
to ERM floor
against mark

BOON MAYES

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STERLING fefl perilously
dose to its absolute floor
against the mark yesterday
as foreign exchange dealers
speculated increasingly on
the prospects of a French No
vote in the Maastricht
referendum, creating tur-
rnofl in the European ex-
change-rate mechanism.
The pound dosed at its
lowest since May 1 6, 1 990.
Britain joined the ERM in
October that year.

Dealers believe the lira, the
pound and the peseta will be
in the firing line on Monday
morning if the French vote no,
even if the worst fears of a
fragmentation of the ERM
are overplayed. A reversion to
the earlier ERM habit Of
frequent realignments is seen
as more likely.

By the official 4pm dose of
London trading, the pound
had fallen to DM2.7812, a
drop of 3.19 pfennigs on the
day. At one point dealers said
it hit DM2.7800, tbe lowest
since the pound joined the
ERM and just a whisker
above the DM2.7780 abso-
lute floor against die mark. At
this level the Bank of England
must intervene to support the
pound or, if that fails, the
government must authorise a
rise in interest rates. Tbe
previous low was DM2.7807,
readied on August 25.

Dealers expressed surprise
that they did not detect any
Bank of England support for
sterling against die mark,
although they did not rule out
the possibility of covert inter-
vention. Traders noted that
the Bank might not have
intervened because the pound
did not reach its ERM floor.
But the Bank is dearly sitting
on the £7.25 billion loan
raised ten days ago to support
the pound and could be ex-
pected to use that in the next
few days.

Economists noted an un-
usually high volume of ru-
mours during the day which
started after the lira had
plunged towards its own floor
in the ERM only one day after
a devaluation. Just a day after
it appeared the ERM tensions
had been eased, die Bank of

By George Sivell

Italy was forced to intervene to
defend the lira, which still
suffers from a lack of confi-
dence in the Italian economy,
largely because of the huge
state deficit.

The peseta also struggled. It
was undermined by weakness
of both the pound and the lira.
The Spanish currency fell to
DM65.30 before the central
bank intervened. It has not
been allowed to dip more than
a fraction below DM65, its
ERM mid-point against the
mark, in recent weeks.

The London stock market
was especially gloomy, unset-
tled by die pound and weak-
ness in the dollar. The FT-SE
100 index fell 52.1 points to
dose at 2.370.

In view of the public outcry
in Germany alter this week's
Bundesbank cuts and the
need to finanoe reunification
and keep down inflation, deal-
ers believe it is unlikely die
Germans would act again,
throwing tbe pressure bade on
to individual currencies to
hold their heads above water,
either by intervention, interest
rate increases or devaluation.

Economists said that the
crucial lesson of tbe lira deval-
uation and German interest
rate cut was that market forces
could hold sway over die
ERM. Having seen one re-
alignment this week the mar-
kets are happier to speculate
on more, especially if there is a
No vote on Sunday.

Kevin Darlington, econo-
mist at UBS Phillips & Drew,

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said: “Just above the ERM
floor is the best place to trade
sterling."

Against the dollar, the
pound dipped 0.61 cents to
$1.8875. But one of yester-
day’s problems was a fall in
the dollar against the mark. It
reached DM 1.4650 before
rebounding to DM1.4760
after American August retail
sales figures showed the big-
gest drop for five months.
American dealers, however,
said they were more preoccu-
pied with the tensions in
Europe than their own domes-
tic weakness. The dollar dosed
at DM1.4885 in London on
Monday evening.

Auguk retail sales feD 0.5
per cent Economists had
forecast a decline of 0.1 per
cent July's rise was revised
upwards to 1.0 per cent from
0.5 per cent. Sales of durable
goods fuelled the August de-
cline. sliding 1 .6 per cent
August American consumer
prices rose a slightly larger
than expected 0.3 percent, 0.2
per cent excluding food and
energy. Dealers had been
looking for a rise of 0.2 per
cent or lower as signalling a
further interest rate easing by
the Federal Reserve, possibly
by the end of this week.

In Britain, analysts are al-
ready speculating on what will
happen if there is a No vote.
Stephen Hannah, director of
research at IBJ International
Bank, said: “I think we will get
through this week . . .. but
sterling remains in the firing
line and there are stifi some
major hurdles to be cleared,
not least tbe French referen-
dum.

“If the French do dedde to
vote no. we could see renewed
turbulence on exchange mar-
kets which could put the
British in the same position
the Italians found themselves
in last weekend. The govern-
ment would have to use die
interest rate weapon, interven-
tion would not be enough."

Major cancels trip, page 1
Anatofe Katetsky, page I
Leading article, page 15
Letters, page 15
Comment, page 23

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Peace offer Geoffrey Mukahy plans to end short-term discounting and make the group's pricing more consistent

Factoiy gate prices rise at
lowest rate in 24 years Kingfisher

By MichallTate

By George Sivell cm editor

INFLATIONARY pressures food manufacturing materi- far this year, against a target THE price war in the DtY
continued to slacken last als. But even on a seasonally stated in the Budget of £28 market cost Kingfisher a prof-
month as the price of goods adjusted basis, the input index billion. its increase in the six months

rharged by manufacturers at feD by 1.9 per cent Tomorrow the government to August 1. Its B&Q chain,

he factory gate rose by the Unadjusted input prices reports on jobless figures, the market leader, was the
owest rate in 24 years. have fallen every month this wfu'ch are expected to have only division to record a

At3.3 per cent in the year to year apart from February and gone up by another 2 5,000 or . setback, from E46.4 million to
\ugust. the rate of increase of April when they were flat or so during July, taking the £40. 1 million at the operating
Hitpul prices was die lowest rose slightly. The adjusted August unemployment rate profit level. That, however,
ance February 1 968. prices rose only in June and up to 9.8 per cent Accompa- was enough to wipe out im-

Output price growth gradu- July. nying earnings figures are provements in the group’s

illy dimbed throughout the Input prices have not fallen expected to show a 6 per cent Woolworths, Comet and
ale eighties and reached a as smoothly as output prices, rise, a repeat of the July figure Superdrug networks,
leak of around 6 per cent in Rises hit 8 per cent in July but a fall on the June figure of Group pre-tax profits
nid-1991 before Ming 1987 before flailing sharply, 6.25 per cem. slipped from E70-6 million to

harply to present levels. In the with prices repeatedly show- Also tomorrow, industrial E67.8 million, which pro-
hree months to August, the ing negative growth in 1990 production figures are due for duced unchanged earnings of
easonally adjusted index rose and 1991. July and are expected to show 9.2p a share. The interim

ly 0.8 per cent compared with Between July and August oD a monthly fall of 0. 1 per cent, dividend is lifted to 4.2p (4p).
he previous three months. product prices fell 0.2 percent, pointing to an annual fall of • Geoffrey Mulcahy, the

The August rate was a slight food manufacturing materials 2.3 per cent the same as chairman and chief executive.
[60^186001111/8 3.4 per cent 1.7 per cent and metal prices reported in June. Manufactur- unveiled plans to defuse the
self a steady fafl from the 4.4 0.1 percent ing production is expected to price war by offering more

ier cent registered in Febru- The news was oveishad- have fallen by 0.2 per cent in consistent pricing instead of
ly. Economists said that the owed by events on the foreign July, pointing to a decline year short-term discounting. Wool-
all reflected a dip in food exchanges and by the prospect on year of 1.7 percent worths made a tiny profit in

i rices as well as a fall in input of not such good newsto come On Friday, provisional the first half, but hopes a new
trices. later in the week. money supply figures are also range of computer games and

Prices paid by manufactur- Today the government expected to point to a flat software will bring a good
tig industry for raw materials reports on public sector bor- economy. They are expected to Christmas. The group said a
eD by 1.9 per cent in the year rowing for August which is show a slightly negative MO ruling by the Office of Fair
o August reflecting a 2.2 per likely to have run at £4 billion during August This monetary Trading on Supeidrug’s dis-
ent fall from July. Between after £600 million in July, aggregate shows mainly notes count selling of perfumes,
uly and August the unadjust- traditionally agood month for ana coins in circulation. Earn- which has upset manufaciur-
dmput price index fell by 2.2 tax receipts. 11115 would take o mists expect to see an ers, was “imminent”,
ier cent largely reflecting an the government's borrowing annualised rise of 5.6 percent

xceptional fall in the price of requirement to El 5.3 billion so in the broader M4 measure. Comment page 23

INFIATIONARY pressures
continued to slacken last
month as the price of goods
charged by manufacturers at
the factory gate rose by the
lowest rate in 24 years.

At 3.3 percent in theyear to
August the rate of increase of
output prices was die lowest
since February 1 968.

Output price growth gradu-
ally dimbed throughout the
late eighties and reached a
peak of around 6 per cent in
mid-1991 before faffing
sharply to present levels. In the
three months to August the
seasonally adjusted index rose
by 0.8 per cent compared with
the previous three months.

The August rate was a slight
decrease on July’s 3.4 per cent
itself a steady fall from the 4.4
per cent registered in Febru-
ary. Economists said that the
fall reflected a dip in food
prices as weD as a fall in input
prices.

Prices paid by manufactur-
ing industry for raw materials
fell by 1.9 per cent in the year
to August reflecting a 2.2 per
cent faD from July. Between
July and August the unadjust-
ed input price index fell by 22
per cent largely reflecting an
exceptional faD in the price of

By George Sivell

food manufacturing materi-
als. But even on a seasonally
adjusted basis, the input index
fen by 1.9 per cent

Unadjusted input prices
have fallen every month this
year apart from February and
April when they were flat or
rose slightly. The adjusted
prices rose only in June and
July.

Input prices have not Men
as smoothly as output prices.
Rises hit 8 per cent in July
1987 before falling sharply,
with prices repeatedly show-
ing negative growth in 1990
and 1991.

Between July and August oil
product prices feD 0.2 per cent,
food manufacturing materials
1.7 per cent and metal prices

0.1 percent.

The news was overshad-
owed by events on the foreign
exchanges and fry the prospect
of not such good news to come
later in the week.

Today the government
reports on public sector bor-
rowing for August, which is
likely 10 have run at £4 billion
after £600 million in July,
traditionally Agood month for
tax receipts. 17115 would take
the government's borrowing
requirement to El 5.3 billion so

far this year, against a target
stated in the Budget of £28
billion.

Tomorrow the government
reports on jobless figures,
which are expected to have
gone up by another 25,000 or
so during July, taking the
August unemployment rate
up to 9.8 per cent Accompa-
nying earnings figures are
expected to show a 6 per cent
rise, a repeat of the July figure
but a faU on the June figure of
6.25 percent

Also tomorrow, industrial
production figures are due for
July and are expected to show
a monthly faD of 0.1 percent,
pointing to an annual fall of
2.3 per cent the same as
reported in June. Manufactur-
ing production is expected to
have fallen by 0.2 per cent in
July, pointing to a decline year
on year of 1.7 percent

On Friday, provisional
money supply figures are also
expected to point to a flat
economy. They are expected to
show a slightly negative MO
during August This monetary
aggregate shows mainly notes
ana coins in circulation. Econ-
omists expect to see an
annualised rise of 5.6 per cent
in the broader M4 measure.

Unions urge Major
to boost EC jobs

By RossTieman, industrial correspondent

LEADERS of Europe’s work- to seek adoption of the so-
ens urged John Major to make called Defors H proposals,
lower Interest rates and lower under which EC structural
unemployment priorities for funds, for infrastructure
Britain’s presidency of the spending, would rise from 1 .4
European community. per cent of the Community’s

Their call, at a meeting with GDP to 1 .7 per cent
the prime minister, upstaged The ETUC argued, that
an earlier visit ly employers’ recession and a surge in EC
leaders, who sidestepped cur- unemployment towards 1 7
rency problems and called for million “have created less
a new Gatt agreement and supportive conditions for the
completion of the single mar- achievement of the major
ket to top the agenda. Community objectives" . Em-

Howard Davies, director- players and unions would, the
general of the Confederation ETUC believed, seek to modi-
of British Industry, said em- fy wage negotiations if policy
ployers were committed to the were changed.

ERM bur believed resolving Carlos Ferrer, the president
the currency crisis was outside of Unice, the employers’ org-
the scope of the presidency. anisation, called for urgent
The European TUC, lead fry measures to improve the com-
Norman Willis, its president, petitiveness of European
had no such doubts. In a one firms. He said the desire erf
hour meeting at Admiralty President Bush to complete a
House, senior trades unionists new Gatt deal ahead of me
pressed Britain’s prime minis- presidential election was en-
ter to do all he could to reflate couraginp for accord,
the European economies. In addition, he said, the EC

In addition to a cut in should concentrate on compie-
interest rates, they urged him tion of the single market

Pit to close with
1,400 out of work

By Patricia TEhan

BRITISH Coal is to dose
Trentham collieiy, one of its
most modern pits, with the
loss of 1.400 jobs.

The dosure comes as the
power industry reveals that the
long-awaited signing of a coal
deal between British Coal and
the power generators. Nat-
ional Power and PowerGen.
has been delayed by the reluc-
tance of two of die 12 regional
electricity supply companies to
agree to the deal.

Trentham, near Stoke-on-
Trent, is losing £20 million a
year and producing less than
half its targeted 2 million
tonnes a year capadiy.

This is the eighth pit dosure
announced fry British Coal
since April, with over 8,000
jobs likriy to be affected. Other
closures are expected this year
and next as British Coal is
slimmed down for privatisa-
tion next year.

Terry Wheatley, British
Coal's Midlands director, told
staff that Trentham has in-
creased its losses since its last

review in July and the com-
pany believes “Trentham will
not prove capable of providing
the level of performance neces-
sary to secure fits) future”.
British Coal has not yet derid-
ed when the pit will dose.

The coal contracts, due to be
signed today, have been de-
layed fry Eastern Electricity
and Man web. They are un-
derstood to be unhappy about
the amount of coal-fired power
they are expected to take under
a new five-year contract and,
to a lesser extent, about the
price. There is pressure on the
two to agree the deal as the
other ten supply companies,
the two power generators,
British Coal and the govern-
ment are believed to have
already reached agreement

Under the new contracts, to
come into force next March,
the generators will reduce the
amount of coal they take from
British Coal from 65 miffion
tonnes a year to 40 million
tonnes and the price is likdy to
faU by 19 per cent

CABLES • CIRCUIT PROTECTION • ENGINEERING • INDUSTRIAL SERVICES

Shareholder saves blue-chip Scots bank

Turnover 402.3

Profir before rax 31.0

Earnings per share 12.7p

Interim ordinary dividend 4.2p

1992

1991

1st Half

1st Half

£m

402.3

389.6

31.0

33.1

12.7p

14.3p

4.2p

4.2 P

By Neil Bennett
banking correspondent

ADAM & Company, the private Edin-
burrfi bank, has been saved from cob
lapse fry a shareholder after two of its
treasury dealers lost £21 miffion in un-
authorised speculation in dollar futures.

The unnamed investor, believed to be
tbe wealthy Schhunbeiger family which
owns a third of the bank, has invested
£21 million in preference shares to
prevent a dosure. Adam has also been
thrown a lifeline fry the Royal Bank of
Scotland, which is supplying funds to
meet any run on the bank. If Adam had
not arranged a cash injection, the Bank
of England would have forced it to dose,
bringing misery to 3,000 depositors.

James Lanrensoo. Adam’s managing

director, said the bank had only discov-
ered the loss a few weeks ago. when if
was preparing Its year-end accounts. Two
of tbe bank's treasury dealers in London
had been secretly losing money on dollar
futures. Instead of admitting thejosses.
they repeatedly doubled their position to
try to recover the money, but the losses
Es cala ted as the dollar continued to falL
The two dealers have been suspended
and Adam has asked Price Waterhouse,
the accountant, to find out how things
could go so badly wrong. “We have to
examine our controls thoroughly- “ this
can happen they were not good enough,”
said Mr Laurenson. The cost of the
operation sent Adam plummeting to a
loss of E5.06 miffion m the year to end-
June, compared with an £869,000 profit
last time, litis wiped out the bank’s

reserves and left it with a £3.14 miffion
deficit Tbe results included an excep-
tional loss of £6.57 million from the
futures deals. The rest will be included in
figures for the current year.

The bank has been forced to abandon
its final dividend and has asked the Stock
Exchange to suspend its shares, which
are occasionally traded on a matched
bargain basis. They win stay in suspen-
sion until PW’s report is delivered in
November.

Ironically. Adam has been hit fry the
loss in an otherwise record year. Operat-
ing profits rose fry 57 per cent to £1.91
million as deposits rose by almost £8
million to El 47 milli on- The shareholder
who is rescuing Adam has been generous
in the extreme but Adam win be paying
for its error for decades.

POSITIONED FOR THE 90 s

Copies of the Inrerim Report for the six months ended
27th June 1992 from which rhe above is an extract are
available From list September from the Secretary,
Delta pic, 1 Kingswav, London WC2B 6XF.

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Fibres plant
will create
jobs for 500

By Robert Rodweu,

AN ARTIFICIAL fibres plant
at Antrim, Northern Ireland,
which dosed ten years ago. is
to be re-opened by an Indone-
sian-American partnership.
About 500 jobs are likely to be
created.

Draft agreements were
signed in Jakarta last week
after more than two years of
negotiations. The signatories
were John McGuckian, chair-
man of the Northern Ireland
Industrial Development
Board; Frank McCann, the
board’s acting chief executive;
managers of the Indonesian
group Texmaco, one of the
world’s largest manufacturers
of man-made fibres; arid Cast-
man Chemical, a Kodak
subsidiary.

Ironically, it was cheap com-
petition from Far Eastern
manufacturers which, in the
early 1980s, destroyed what
was then western Europe's
largest concentration of artifi-
cial fibre plants. Five out of six
were dosed, including the one
now to reopen, a nylon plant
run by British Enkalon, which
was owned byAkzo. the Dutch
chemical company.

All were established during
a wave of inward investment
in the 1960s and, at their
peak, employed almost
20.000 people. Today, only a
Hoedhst plant at Limavady,
County Londonderry, survives
on a much-reduced scale,
making Acrilon. Du Ponfs
nylon plant at M&ydown, near
Londonderry, was replaced by
a new facility making Kevlar,
a high-strength structural fi-
bre. The huge, abandoned

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British Enkalon plant is now
to be refurbished and
equipped with high-tech ma-
chinery at a cost it is under-
stood. of about El 5 million.

Although the project will be
grant-aided by the develop-
ment board, government as-
sistance will not be offered to
aD parts of it. because of EC
regulations on competition in
the textile industry.

The main activity at the
refurbished plant will be pro-
duction of Microfiber, a poly-
ester filament developed in
Japan that is finer even than
tiie thread of silkworms. It can
be woven into fabrics, which,
although water resistant, allow
perspiration to escape. like
natural fibres such as silk,
linen and wooL •

It is this- quality that
distinguishes Microfiber from
almost all synthetic" fibres to
date, which has excited the
fashion industry. -

Officially, the development
board is making no comment.
But when Mr McGuckian
and Mr McCann left far the
Far East at the beginning of
the month, on what was
described as a “fact-finding
tour”, a company spokesman
said: “We are looking at some
projects in the region where it
would be very helpful to have
the top men involved.’’

News of the Antrim deal
follows predictions by develop-
ment board sources early this
month that before the end of
the year 12 new projects,
involving investment of £40
million and 800 jobs, could be
created.

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Sending help: Mi ke Cass, a
director of Tibbett & Batten
Group, has helped to orga-
nise a relief aid trip to eastern
Romania using one of the
clothing and grocery distribu-
tion group's lorries (Phi lip

- . . £. idi) . fi: c : r TI

Phngatos writes). Organic
growth in all divisions helped
T&B to pre-tax profits ahead
6 per cent to £6.72 million in
the six months to June 27.
Turnover grew 20.6 per cent
to £101.6 million. There is an

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improved inferim dividend of
3.8p (3.4^ a share, from
earnings of 12.8p (I23p) a
share. Analysts ex p ec t full-
year pre-tax profits to reach
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Jeyes stays
buoyant
despite
recession

By Philip Fancalos

JEYES. the household d eas-
ing products group that makes
Parazone b te a ch and Wet
Ones wipes, has again bucked
depressed consumer markets
with a healthy advance in first-
half profits.

jimmy Moir. managing di-
rector, said Jeyes had benefit-
ed from the “recession
resistant” quality of its prod-
ucts. “The markets for prod-
ucts like bleach and toOet
deanerare stiO as good as they
were last yean” he said. “Some
markets are actually up.”

Pre-tax profits advanced
1 9.8 per cent to £2.1 1 million
in the 28 weeks to July 1 1. on
turnover 16-.6 per cent ahead
to £35.9 million. The UK
market accounted for about
four fifths of sales but that will
change after a recent German
acquisition. Expansion into
continental Europe is likety to
result in 40 per cent of
turnover coming from Britain,
20 per cent from Germany. 25
per cent from the rest , of
Europe and 15 per cent from
the Far East and America.

There is no first-half profits
contribution from Gkrbol. a
German-based air fresheners
to toiletries maker acquired in
July for £18.1 million. That
followed Jeyes’s successful £2 1
million rights issue, at 38 5p.
Globoi is expected to contrib-
ute more than £300,000 to
second-half operating profits.

Mr Moir said heafthy ex?
ports had hdped die interna-
tional business. : but die
industrial cleaners division
had been affected by recession.

An increased interim divi-
dend of 3.1p (2.6p) is recom-
mended. The shares fell 2p to
464p. . L

Credit Lyonnais taking
majority in Woodchester

CREDIT Iyonnais, the French bank, is taking a majority
stake in Woodchester Investments, the Irish leasing
company, by selling it a 30 per cent stake in Credit Lyonnais
i*adri E Europe (CLLE), its European leasing operations.for
Tr200 million. Woodchester is paying wife 9.47 million of its
shares. This will raise Lyonnais’s stake in Woodchester from
4S.6 per cent to more than 48 per cent ■

Lyonnais has also announced it will buy more than 4
mason Woodchester shares in the market to take the bank's
stake to morethan 50 percent Lyonnais has grouped «s non-
French leasing businesses into a specially created vehicle to
allow Woodchester to take a strategic stake. Woodchester
yesterday announced that it had suffered a 3 per cent fall in
pre-tax profits in the finsr half of the year to Ir£l 7.5 million
(£16.86 million). However, the group is increasing its
dividend tty a fifth to Irl .8 Ip.

Cala reduces losses

A SHARP drop in provisions has helped reduce losses at
Pal a , the Aberdeen housebuilder and property group. In the
year to end-June, the company made a pre-tax loss of only
£980,000 compared with a £6.9 million loss the year before.
Despite the improvement, a second successive year of losses
has persuaded the board to cut the total dividend from 3.4p
to 2.3p. To achieve this, the final dividend has been cur from
2.25p to 1.1 5p.

GPA conversion price

GPA Group, the aircraft leasing company, has set the
conversion price of its $300 million preference share issue at
$8 a share, according to aviation sources in Dublin. A listing
fortiie refinancing package will be sought in Luxembourg by
the end of tills year. Next would come a fisting of the ordinary
and convertible shares in Dublin. Tony Ryan, who founded
foe firm and controls 8 per cent of the ordinary shares,
intends taking up a sizable amount of the rights.

Trinity advances

TRINITY International Holdings, the newspaper publisher
and paper maker that acquired 23 Scottish tides from Lonrbo
for £45 miflion in July- has unveiled a 14 per cent advance in
interim prefax profits to £7.9 milli on for the six months to
June 27. The improvement had been achieved in the midst of
difficult economic conditions through “the continued
judicious management of costs and increased market share”.
The interim is raised from 2.5p to 2.7p. 1

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 6 1 992

S tannin
growth
swells
earnings

By Matthew Bond

a quarrying
lullah

STARMIN.

group run by the Abdu^
brothers, has reported higher
interim profits, despite what it
describes as the worst reces-
sion /or the construction and
construction materials indus-
try since the 1 930s.

In the six months to June
30. pre-tax profits were £ 1.3
million, some 72 per cent up
on last time. However, the big
jump in profits was largely due
to acquisitions made last year,
financed by the proceeds of a
£20 million rights issue. Earn-
ings per share were un-
changed at 0.3p, as is the
interim dividend at O.lp.

Owen Rout, the chairman,
said there was no sign of an
early end to the miserable
trading conditions. “It is the
board’s view that the current
recession wil last through
1 993," he said.

Starmin’s biggest acquisi-
tion last year was Warecrete, a
Hertfordshire sand and gravel
extractor, for which it paid £13
million. Mr Rout said
Warecrete had settled into the
group well

Quarries in north-east Scot-
land were still performing well
but soft limestone quarries
along the A1 road had experi-
enced very weak demand;
their operations were therefore
being cut to a minimum. A
cost-cutting programme is
being implemented and sav-
ings should be significant in
the second half. As a result, the
board expects “a satisfactory
outcome” for the year.

Call for share
option reform

EXECUTIVES should not be
allowed to exercise their op^
tions under share option
schemes unless the company’s
shares outperform a standard
benchmark, possibly the FT
all-share index, the National
Association of Pension Funds
(NAPF) said yesterday.

The association was com-
menting on guidelines issued
by tiie Association of British
Insurers. In its document
Share Schemes -A Consulta-
tive Document, the N API-
said: "It is appropriate that
reward under an executive
share option scheme should be
subject to some -measure’ of
relative performance."

Foster’s makes cash call
as losses reach A$95 1 m

By Brian Buchanan
and Angela Mackay .

FOSTER’S Brewing Group
embarked on the long road to
recovery yesterday with a
A$1.02 billion (£397 million)
rights issue after reporting a
devastating A$95!ra loss for
the year ending June 30.

The company, which was
the Australian glamour stock
of the early J 980s, was forced
to restore its balance sheet
the fully underwritten
rights issue and reconstituted
its board with four directors
from Broken Hill Propriety,
Foster's biggest shareholder.

Just before announcing the
results and the rights issue.
BHP successfully tendered to
the joint receivers of John
Elliott's Internationa] Brew-
ing for their 32 per cent stake
in Foster's. John Prescott.
BHP*s chief executive, said:
“The acquisition of the Fos-
ter’s shares represents a major
step forward in satisfying
BHFs objective of realising
foil value for its investment".

Foster's Brewing revealed
an improved contribution
from the brewing operations
offset by abnormal losses of
A$1.31 billion from the non-
brewing operations. Foster's
Brewing business reported a
13 per cent rise in earnings
before interest and tax, to
A$551.9 million. This was
helped by improved contribu-
tions from Courage in Britain
and Molson in Canada.

Directors also set out the
profit prospects for ths finan-
cial year in Foster's prospectus
for its two-for-five rights issue
priced at A$1.10. They fore-
cast a resumption of dividend
payments this year but said
trading conditions remained
difficult in the group’s main
markets, including Australia,
the UK and Canada.

Earnings for the year were
overwhelmed by AS634 mil-
lion in bad debt provision, in
the finance divirion. There
were also write-downs and
provisions, induding A$102
million for future operating
and work-out costs, and
A$228 million against the
value of the Inntrepeneur
Estates. the pub joint venture
in the UK, A$73 million for a
deficiency in the Courage pen-
sion funds, A$64 minion /pf
restructuring, rationalisation
and contingency costs.- A$56
mfflioh’ohother property as-
sets and A$3 1 ftufliori for an 1
option premium on convert-

What a drag: Foster’s puts John Elliott high up the league of corporate losers

ible bonds.

Courage raised its earnings
before interest and tax to
A$242 million (A$168 mil-
lion), Molson to AJJ 12 mil-
lion (A$88.5 million), while
the Australian, operation.
Carlton & United Breweries,
fell to A$I90 million (A$232
million). Ted KunkeL Foster’s
chief executive: said beer vol-
umes were down 3 per cent in

both Australia and the UK

and about 1 per cent in

Canafia,

The balance sheet also add-
ed to the woes of Mr Elliott, a
former Foster's chairman,
who resigned from the board
on Monday. Local analysts
yesterday estimated that tak-
ing into account Foster’s latest
losse&.Mr Elliott had presided
over A$5 billion in losses at

Foster’s and IBH. putting him
with Alan Bond at the top of
the Australian corporate losers
list

The day’s events worried
investors who cui Foster’s
share price by 13 cents to a
local dose of A$1 .46 a share.
The heavy trading took the
company to its lowest level
since April 1989.

Aijo dives
£ 430 m in
market on
interim cut

By Jonathan Prynn

THE market value of Aijo
Wiggins Appleton, the Anglo
French paper conglomerate,
plummeted by £430 million
yesterday as the shares
slumped on new of a interim
dividend cut and a bearish
statement from the company
on the outlook for trading.

The shares closed ai 129p.
down 53p on the day. valuing
the group at just over £1
billion. They were trading at
above 2 8 Op as recently as
May. before a boardroom
coup resulted in the departure
Of Stephen Walk the former
chief executive. Mr Wall’s
successor, Alain Soulas, yester-
day took office at the group's
headquarters.

Pre-tax profits for the half
year to end-June fell 27 per
cent from £135.5 million to
£99.1 million on marginally
increased sales of £1.3 biUion.
Cob Stenhara, the chairman,
said the results should be
viewed against “a background
of exceptionally diffioih trad-
ing conditions in the world
economy in general and the
paper industry in particular".
And he gave warning that
there was little likelihood of
any meaningful recovery in
the markets in which the
group operates “within the
next 18 months". Trading
conditions are not expected to
improve and m ay deteriorate
in the second half
Operating profits slumped
23 per cent to £1 12.4 million,
due almost entirely to a de-
cline in profits from the Euro-
pean paper manufacturing
operations. The north Ameri-
can paper-making businesses
reported operating profits up
from £51.9 million to £53.3
million.

The interim dividend was
cut 20 per cent to 2.65p on
earnings of 7.5p, down from
10.7p. Mr Stenham said it
was the board’s view that the
final dividend will be reduced
't>y a similar proportion".
Tony Isaac the finance direc-
tor, said the dividend cut
reflected the company’s desire
to maintain full cover at die
year-end at more than two
times. The balance sheet re-
mained strong with half-year
gearing of only 26 per cent
and interest cover of nine
times. Capital expenditure
during the period was £82
million, about £40 million in
excess of depreciation.

Tec leaders want
training credits
for all unemployed

By Ross Tieman. industrial correspondent

A CALL for every jobless
person to be offered a stare-
fonded credit to buy training
has been made by leaders of
Training and Enterprise
Councils in England and
Wales. The Tecs said simpli-
fied funding arrangements
could enable them to lift the
number of jobs offered to
unemployed adults by 45 per
cent over two years.

The proposals are part of a
radical package of changes
urged by the Tecs in response
to a plea for fresh thinking
from Gillian Shephard, the
employment secretary. At
present, only jobless school
leavers are guaranteed the of-
fer of a place on a government
training scheme, and training
credits are still available only
in parts of the country.

Mrs Shephard will meet the
leader of the Tec working
party. Peter Wetzel, chairman
of Barnsley and Doncaster
Tec. in two weeks to discuss
the proposals. An employment
depanmen t spokeswoman
said: “We will consider the
recommendations carefully.”

The Tecs say training
should be made far more
flexible. The role of the gov-
ernment’s employment service
should be restricted to provid-
ing the jobless with training
credits, they believe.

Under the regime proposed,
Tecs would act as contracting
organisations, procuring
training courses targeted at

skill shortages after liaison
with local companies.

Mr Wend said: “We think
our proposal will allow- us to
deliver better training for
more people at the same total
cost" The Tecs also urge a
facility enabling jobless people
to lop up state training credits
through a state-funded “career
development loan”.

According to papers sent to
Mrs Shephard by Mr Wetzel,
only half of the£700 million or
more spent by the goremment
on its Employment Training
and Employment Action
schemes is used to procure
training. More than E360
million is, in effect, a subsis-
tence allowance for those tak-
ing pan. The Tecs said the
government should introduce
an attractive training allow-
ance that encourages people to
leave the jobless register and
retrain. Each scheme would
lead to recognised
qualifications.

The study also argued that
"current allowance arrange-
ments also represent, in our
view, a great impediment to
employer involvement". The
Employment Service should
pay closer attention to the
potential of the jobless to
retrain, rather than simply
concentrating an those longest
without work, the study said.

Leaders of the Tecs are
pressing Mrs Shephard to
approve a pilot scheme to start
in April 1994.

COMPANY NEWS JN BRIEF

SCHOLES GROUP (Fm)
Pre-tax: E3.17m (£4.58m)
EPS: 5.9p (8.5p)

Div: 3.4p, mkg 5p (5p)

LOPEX (tnt)

Pre-tax: £125,000 Loss
LPS: 1J22p (LPS: 4.1 Op)
Div: Nil (nil)

JOHN HAGGAS (Fin)
Pre-tax: £ 2 . 88 m (£ 1 .82m)
EPS: 9.02p (5.60p)

Div. 2p, mkg 3p (3p)

OSPREY COMMS (Fin)
Pre-tax: £336,000 Loss
LPS: 2.03p (EPS: 4.67p)
Div Nil, mkg 0.65p

EVEREST FOODS (Fin)
Pre-tax: £3.31 m (£2.63m)
EPS: 20.13p (19.97b)

Div 4^8p, mkg 7p (6.8p)

UNION PARK (lnt)
Pre-tax: £2.34m {£2. 49m)
EPS: 7.1 p f7.8p)

Div 2.5p (2.5p)

Turnover fell to £62m (£67. 3m).

No sign of upturn In demand, but
market share maintained. Grating
cut to 13 per cent (32 per cent).

Last time’s loss was £91 6,000.
Turnover fell to £73.7m (£1 11m).
Exceptional gain: £38,000.
Extraordinary debit: £477,000.

There was an extraordinary debit
of £4. 95m. Turnover edged up to
£34.4m (£33. 4m). Company says
demand continues to improve.

There was a profit of £869,000 last
time. Previous total dividend
was 2_7p. There is an exceptional
charge of £355,000.

Turnover rose to £33.8m (£3 0.2m).
Interest costs cut to £439,000
(£874,000).. Company remans
confident for the future.

Turnover fell to £58. 7m (£60.3m).
Operating profits were hampered
' the severe African drought,

‘ i has affected tea production.

Island dispute adds to Opec squabbling

By George Swell

THE ritual posturing of Opec
energy ministers going into
their strategy meeting in
Geneva today has been given
an added twist by a dispute
over a tiny island in the Gulf.

Sharper than normal ex-
changes between Saudi Ara-
bia, the traditional price dove
and the largest Opec produc-
er. and Iran, number two
producer and the customary
hawk are expected because of
what is claimed to have been
Iran's annexation of Abu
Musa.

It is claimed that on August
20, Iran, which is supposed to
share control of the island
with the United Arab Emir-
ates, asked expatriates in the
UA£ half of the island to leave
and subsequently insisted

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the island had Iranian entry
papers.

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territorial waters halfway
across the Gulf between the

UAE and Iran, and was partly
occupied by Inn under the
Shah in 1971 in a move that
led to Baghdad breaking off
relations with Tehran as a
prelude to the Iran-Lraq war.
The UAE is not only an Opec
member but an ally of Saudi
Arabia.

This is the second time Iran
has taken such action over
Abu Musa. Its first action also
preceded on Opec meeting, in
May Oris year, and it is felt by
Gulf observers that Iran's
moves, are designed to force
the Saudis to take heed of
Iranian o3 price demands.

Maybe the Saudis wifi
agree Iranian price moves
this time, as they unexpected-
ly did at the May meeting. In
May the Saudis apparently
set out their stall fora rise in
Opec production and Iran

was looking for a cut. In the
event, the 23 million barre Fa-
day quota was rolled over,
carrying the flexibility for
battle-scarred Kuwait to in-
crease production as and
when it could.

With many Opec producers
facing mounting trade defi-
cits at home or, in the case of
Venezuela, Nigeria and Alge-
ria, heavy debts, a quick
accord on maintained quotas
for the fourth quarter of the
year may be the most likely
outcome. Oil market observ-
ers believe that Opec minis-
ters would like to get prices
for Opec oil back to $21 a
barrel from the prevailing
$19.40 and that a rollover of
the present agreement going
into the fourth quarter, rather
than any increase in quotas, is
likely to achieve this.

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THE pound's latest setback
against the mark pulled the
nig from under government
securities, effectively wiping
out the previous days* gains
achieved on the back of lower
European interest rates.

As the pound sank against
the mark, fears were revived,
that the government may still
be forced to raise interest rates
to protect the currency. Fund
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peared disillusioned with
efforts to prop up sterling.

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per cent" 1998 finished ll 3 hz
lower at £l00 7 /32. On the
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ended £Pa lower at £97 9 /32
with fund managers unwilling
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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1992

TEMPUS

W0RU3 MARKETS

Ario’s earnings crumple in Europe

EVEN by current standards,
the news from Arjo Wiggins
Appleton was exceptionally

gloomy.

A chairman's statement de-
tailed the reasons for the 27
per cent Call in first-half pre-
tax profits to £99.1 million
and ended with the comment
that it was difficult to see any
likelihood of an upturn in the
group’s main markets within
the next 18 months.

As if to underscore the
severity of the difficulties
facing the group, the interim
dividend was cut by 20 per
cent to 2.65p, even thougi a
maintained payout would
have been more than twice
covered. The message was not
wasted on the market, which
cut the share price by SZp, to
leave it at 130p at close of
play.

The problems are concen-
trated in Arjo's European
coated and carbonless paper
operations, which have been
hit by market overcapacity
and price erosion, respective-
ly. As a result, operating
profits from the European
paper manufacturing opera-
tions fell from £90 million to
£52 million with little imme-
diate sign of any short-term
improvement.

The performance in Ameri-
ca was much more robust,
with operating profits up on
last year. For the full year,
however, some of the cream
will be skimmed off the Amer-
ican figures by the weakness
of the dollar during the sec-
ond half.

Behind the scenes, solid

work is being carried out in
cutting costs, capital invest-
ment and realising synergy
benefits: in die fullness of
time; this will bear fruit.

The danger is that the
damage done to the stock’s
image in the meantime wifi be
so debilitating that even when
the upturn comes, the shares
will be unable to recover their
rating.

Pre-tax profits for the full
year will struggle to reach
much beyond £160 million,
giving 12p of earnings. The
share price should be under-
pinned by the expected 6.7p
dividend, which converts to a
yield of 6.8 per cent Even so.
the argument for the upside is
paper thin.

MB Caradon

ATTENTION yesterday was
focused on the questions MB
Caradon did not answer, rath-
er than on those it did.

Questions such as: what is
the long-term future of its 25
per cent interest in Camaud-
Metalbox. which contributed
£20.6 milli on to interim pre-
tax profits — 1 5 per cent up
on the first half of 1 99 1 — and
yet looks curious as part of a
company that prides itself on
its management expertise.

And how exactly does the
company plan to flex its
considerable balance sheet
muscle?

The primary impact of Oc-
tober’s £150 million rights
issue was to cut the interest
bill from £1 1.5 million to £2.5
million, helping pre-tax prof-

Firm hands: Delta’s Robert Easton has held gearing down to 10 percent

its on their way from £47.2
million to £60.6 million. More
significantly, however, it cut
net borrowings to £62 million
and gearing to 12 per cent

Since the CaniaudMetal-
box stake is worth more than
£390 million, it is no under-
statement to say dial Peter
Jansen, chief executive, has
room to manoeuvre.

Yesterday’s results were a
reassuring mix of the good,
the inevitable and the un-
changed. The good was the 45
per cent increase in operating
profits at the American sec-

urity printing operation to
£17.1 million and the im-
provement at CamaudMetal-
bax.The inevitable was the 24
per cent fall in operating
profits earned by the British
building products activity to
El 7.9 milli on. The unchanged
was the 2.75p interim.

The same mix should pro-
duce a similar result in the
second halt putting the group
on target for profits of £120
milli on or so. But on a price-
earnings multiple approach-
ing 15. the shares are well up
with the pace.

Delta Group

BETA plus would probably be
a fair mark for Delta Group.
Apart from calling the econo-
my wrong six months ago —
and it was in good company
there — and taking a wrong
turn as American defence
industry cuts sent it scram-
bling for new markets in
America, management has
again proved itself copper-
bottomed.

But for a £3 million
tumround at Surprenant. ca-
ble supplier to the American

military, group profits would
have shown an increase at the
hallway point, as new prod-
ucts and old cost controls
made light of recessionary
pressures. As it was, the pre-
tax figure slipped 6 per cent,
to £30.97 million, but most
building and engineering in-
dustry suppliers would gladly
have swapped their first-half
experiences for Delta’s.

There are few better Euro-
peans than Delta, the UK and
continental operations of
which are so integrated that
the company finds it impossi-
ble to separate their perfor-
mances. That might be as weD
for the engineering division:
continental demand for
phimhfng fittings, particular-
ly in Germany, inspired 17
per cent profits growth.

Surprenant, responded to
defence cuts by attacking the
oil market; it swiftly drew
bads, and refocusing the busi-
ness will probably preclude
recovery in cables this year. In
the light of the annual state-
ment, it is no surprise that
Robert Easton, chief execu-
tive. is negative about the
immediate prospects for oth-
er markets.

Delta’s strength is in its 10
per cent gearing, its substan-
tial dividend cover and its
management whose cautious
conservatism was nevermore
appreciated. Whether annual
profits can improve on last
year’s £65.8 million is by no
means certain, but assuming
earnings of around 28p again, j
the shares at 354p are trading
on a 12.6 multiple. Hold. |

Sun Alliance stake-sale speculation dents CU

SHARES of Commercial
Union fell 27p to 483p as
brokers puzzled over the
whereabouts of Sun Alliance’s
near-1 5 per cent stake in the
company. Talk in the Square
Mile claimed that Son Alli-
ance had tried to place its
holding of 62. 1 million shares
in Commercial Union at
about 470p. a discount of

Sketchley, the cleaning ser-
vices group, fell 9p to a new
low of 89p as a large parcel of
shares went through the mar-
ket. Warburg Securities is
believed to have placed about
600,000 shares at about 90p
on behalf of one of the leading
fund management groups.

almost 8 per cent on the
previous night's dose. By the
close of business last night
however, only 2.9 million CU
shares had changed hands on
the trading screens. Sun Alli-
ance refused to comment
The speculators daimed
that Sun Alliance had taken

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advantage of the recent sup-
port for CU shares and had
sold them outride the market
to Goldman Sachs, the New
York securities house, which
has established a reputation
for sizable bought deals in
recent times. But Goldman is
still believed to be nursing a
sizable trading loss on the
purchase of 20 million shares
in 1C1 from Hanson earlier
this year. Sun Alliance eased
3p to 254p.

The rest of the equity market
spent another volatile session
wiping out the previous days’
gains accrued in the wake of
the cut in German interest
rates. Again most of the activi-
ty was focused on the foreign
exchanges, where the pound
came under renewed selling
pressure, reviving fears of a
rise in domestic interest rates.

The pound succeeded in
dragging share prices lower
with it. The FT-SE 100 index
dosed just above its low for the
day with a fall of 52.1 at
2.3 70.0. A total of 507 million
shares were traded but condi-
tions were described as thin.

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Kofltmons 448
Ryt Bk Scot 2,400
Sal ns bury sjoo
Scot A New 2-200
Soot Power 22200
Sears 42200
Svm Trent 1.100
Shell Trans 2300
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Thm EMI 1 .400
Tomkins 2*00
Unilever IxXU
Did 8 ISC 13(0
vod alone 3.100

UFFE OPTIONS

COMMERCIAL UNION:
SHARES DEPRESSED BY
TALK OF SHARE /
ll\ a PLACING

FT aft-stare
Index
(rebased]

nil

8 Share

‘Sep 1 Oct 'Nov 1 Dec* Jan 1 Feb 1 Mar 1 Apr 1 May r Jun 1 Jul 1 Aug 1 " Sep

with fund managers unwilling
to open new positions before
the French referendum on the
Maastricht treaty on Sunday.

Smith Kline Beecham A fell
1 Ip to 491p after the chief
medical office ordered sup-
plies of its Pluserix-MMR
vaccine to be withdrawn after
it was found to create a mild
form of meningitis in some
children. Pluserix is used to
protect children from rubella.

measles and mumps. A simi-
lar vaccine, Immravax. made
by Merieux. has also been
withdrawn. Smith Kline said 5
million Pluserix doses are sold
each year worldwide.

Kingfisher, the Wooiworth.
B&Q and Comet retailer. lost
an early I Op lead to finish all-
square at 474p. despite pro-
ducing better than expected
halfway figures. Pre-tax profits
were only £2. 8 million lower at

£67.8 milli on, including prop-
erty disposals.

Only B&Q. still feeling the
effects of the DIY price war.
failed to make an increased
contribution. Geoffrey
Mulcahy, the chairman, said
that trading conditions re-
mained patchy.

Azjo Wiggins Appleton, the
paper and packaging group,
tumbled 53p to 129p after
upsetting the market by cut-
ting the interim dividend and
giving a warning that a reduc-
tion in the final dividend
could not be ruled out Half-
year profits of the Anglo-
French company fell from
£135.5 million to £99 million.
It said trading conditions may
deteriorate further.

MB Caradon. the security
printer and building products
group, finished 12p down on
the day at 224p after reporting
a 28 per cent increase in half-
year pre-tax profits to £60.6
million and a maintained
dividend. But Delta Group
dropped 25p to 353p after one
of its businesses in America
dived into the red leaving

overall pre-tax profits £2 mil-
lion lower at £3 1 million.'

The drinks sector encoun-
tered some nervous selling
amid revived worries about
depressed beer sales. There
were losses for AUkd-Lyons,
16p to 54 5p. Bass, lOp to
508p, Grand Metropolitan.
20p to 392p, GreenaDs. 8p to
32 8p, Scottish & Newcastle,

Sears fell 3p to 63p as County
NatWest became more bear-
ish- about prospects. It is
warning that profits in the
current year may be hit by
exceptional costs of up to £80
million. The interim dividend
should be held but the final
may be cut up to 75 percent

8p to 406p, and Whitbread A,
18p to 376p-

Usher Walker, the printing
inks group, plunged 65p to
85p after meagre half-year
pre-tax profits of £9.000
(£217,000).

Michael Clark

MAJOR INDICES

New \ork (midday):

Dor Jones 3347.04 $-29.1 S|

S&P Composite 421.57 (-3.70$

Tokyo:

Nikkei Av*gc Closed

Hong Kong:

Hang Seng 5653.84 Mb 69)

Amsterdam:

CBS Tendency 1 12.3 $-0.8)

Sydney: ao iS30.4H».2)

Frankfurt:

DAX 1 587.55 (-7.49)

FTSE Euro 100:
Brussels:

General

Paris: cac

Zurich: SKA Gen .

London:

FTA Afl-Share

FT 500

FT Gold Mines

FT Fixed Interest —

FT Govt Sea

Bargains . — . —

SEAQ Volume

USM (DaiasQm)

105 1.69 (-22. 10)

- 5475.62 $-7,861
496.70 1*1.49)
426.5 (*6.1)

1 1 18.69 (-21.82)
1259.43 $-24.11)
72.5 (-0.6)

- 10634 (-0.12)

- 89.14 (-0.97)

18968

5073m

- 1 12.66 (-0.85)

; . , LONDON FINANCIAL

Period Open High Low Close Volume

FT-SE 100 Sep 92 _ 2415.0 24210 23600 2363X1 16877

Previous open in«** 50591 Dec 92 - 2465.0 2465.0 2406.0 2408.0 7181

Three Month Sterling Sep 92 . 89.70 89.70 8937 8939 11102

Previous open tarenat 261 W5 Dec92_ 89.68 89.72 89.12 89.15 91252

Mar 93 90.14 90.15 8939 89.76 13152

Three Mth Eurodollar sep92_

Previous open interest 21662 Dec 92- 9634 9634 96.79 96.80 1397

Three Mth Euro DM Sep 92 -

Prevtau open interest 40986 1 Dec 92 _ 91X52 91.10 90.98 91.07 43554

• TRADITIONAL OPTIONS

Firsr Dealings Last Dealings Last Declaration ForSeoJemeni

Se p t ember 14 Sep t em be r 21 DcmdxrlO December 2}

Call options were takes out on 15/9/92 Austral Burton Group. Allied Leisure. BET.
FNFC. Queens MoaL Royal Insurance:

Puts: KnknuTipbook.

Puts & Cafe Trafalgar House. Ucd Biscuits.

US Treasury Bond Sep92 _ 106-26 1 06-26 1 06-26 1 06-26 12

Piwtausopen mteresc 1940 Dec 92 _ 106-15 106-15 105-17 105-17 277

LonaGSt Sep 92 . 98-03 984)3 96-31 96-31 416

Previous open interest 67644 Dec 9 2 _ 984)9 98-11 974)8 97-09 56964

Japanes e Govmt Bond Dec92_ iob.io

Mar 93

German Govmt Bond Dec 92 _ 90.0b 9037 99.95 9a 1 9 45701

Previous open interest 142041 - Mar 93 90.40 9058 90.37 9053 972

Three month ECU Sep92 ..

Previous openimerest 14144 Dec 92 _ 89.62 89.62 8931 8932 1093

Euro Swiss Franc

Dec 92 . 92.84 92.91 92.76 92.85 7161

Previous open (merest 52209 Mar 92 93.10 93. 16 93.04 93.10 2051

Italian Govmi Bond

Previous open interest 26129 Mar 93

Dec 92 . 93.40 9338 92.02 92.10 20749

COMMODITIES-

AIM Lwm. 550 25
l“542 l .:l 60U o

AS DA .. 30 3

1*2X1 35 I

Haw ... . 500 35
i-WT'O 525 i:
&WC.._ 4 HI) 18
1*4501 500 6

Hr Airways 2K0 14
i*:72l 300 d

BP. _ ISO 27
PJMO'il Ski 10
220 4

Br5Kd _ 50 S
(*4)1 01) 3

aw — 500 40
P53L':) SSO 15
CU- - 500 th

P482«ii 550 4

Couruuid . 420 IS
P403‘2i 460 4

CKN .. - 330 33
r.'53'il 360 13

CmUMet 400 24
l'392'n 425 10

IC1 1050 44

1*1 05 lift) 23
I I5(i 9
Kingtishr 460 32
IS 741 SOD 13
LXitoiufce- 140 22
P153':l 160 8'x

Land Snr_. 330 37
>“3551 3 00 13

MAS 300 2o

P3im 330 9

Siirctaiy. 420 25
1*4251 460 6

SM 460 19

r4T6':l 500 4

SmttBcfa.. 500 17
rs*l'j) 550 3
SajrtJm:.- I2U 13
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IS 51 SO 4'a

Unilever-. 950 39
P«)S0'si 1000 16
L'ld Bhe .. 260 24
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Cafe PHi
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40 52 12 25 29
IS 29 48 55 57
4'i 6 3'r 5 5'i

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45 53 12 24 20
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30 40 17 26 32
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23 20 12 20 23

Series Nov Feb May Nor :
- 650 43 62 77 15
700 20 36 51 40
. 750 49 73 31 20

Cafe Pas
Series Sep Per Mar Sep Dee Mar

BAA 650 43 62

(“657':l 700 20 36

BAT Iml . 750 49 73
1*762*2) SOD 25 46

BTR 420 32 4S

1*44 1 ';) 460 12 24

BrAero— 200 27 37
ri97'j| 220 |«J 23

BrTdem- 330 27 34

AbbvNai. 260
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Amsnad — 20
f*22! 25

Baidays . _ 300
t*?IOl 330

BfueCirc— HO
1*1381 160

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15 26 33 1

2 14 21 10
2'j 5 6 I

1 3 4*i 4

20 36 43 l

2 IS 27 15

4'i 14 21 3

I'a 7 13 22
12 17 23 I

REPORT: Cocoa futures finished mostly lower as the market
remained stuck towards the lower end of its range. Coffee
levels picked up briefly during the morning only to be knocked
back by commission house selling and some light option
covering. The afternoon saw levels rally sharply on arbitrage
buying and short covering by commission house buying.

MV

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1*202 '.■) 220 4*i 9

IAS MO_ 126 16 23
PI 25) 130 II IS

Luos 90 10

(*S8'i| 100 5 -

PSO 330 27 -

1*3351 360 |4 -

PiJWnsm — 50 II 15
PM) 90 7 11

Prudential 240 Id 24
r244'D 200 7 15

RTZ. 550 30 49

1*5531 600 12 27

SrwNew. 390 3 3 42
TWO 420 15 26

Tom ’00 20 28

«07'j1 220 10 IS

Thames W 420 33 40
1*4361 460 10 18

Vodafone. 280 2« 38
(*294) 300 17 26

Glaxo 750 32 08 90 2 35 50

rT76*:l 300 3 43 65 2 1 60 75

HSBC — 330 24 42 51 I II 20

1*350*11 360 2‘j 25 35 II 24 34

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(*79) 90 |*i 5 12 12 19 23

Lonihc — 70 3 10 12 2*i 7 9

P69I SO 1 4 9 |0 13 14

Midland.- 460 25 49 - 5 ZO -

r4S5*d 500 3 30 - 30 41 -

Itaner.. MOO 44 - - 3 - -

1*1 132*j( 1150 S - - 18 - -

R-Roke — 120 10 lo 30 I S 3

(*126) 130 2 10't 14'a 3'a 8'; 13

Sears — 60 8 10 13 l 4'a 5

P63'i) 70 I ‘a b 7 ‘j 5 9 10

Thru Emi. 669 3 - - 12 - -

(*657) 719 I'a - - 64 - -

TSB- -130 2 II 15 3'j 7'* II

(-I24M 140 1 6 10 12 14 17

vaal Reels— 30 4 6 7 l 2 1 * 4

rS321 35 l>> 3 4 'j 3 5 8

Wdkrmw- 850 31 70 97 I'a 31 47

rS67*i) 900 3 44 74 23 57 73

Serin Od Jan Apr Oc? fe Apr

Ferns 160 20 28 35 9 20 21

rt«I ISO 12 22 30 20 30 33

Sena Nor FtbMRf N9» Feb May
EnWEfc. 350 27 36 44 10 18 21

f*3b0] 370 15 25 34 20 23 30

■ Spia Sep DeeMar Sep Pec Mar

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r2S2'a| 280 1 7 12 31 33 34

SaxPwr-. 180 3*i 12 14 2 5*» S

riSl'il 1« 1 6>, - 9 11 -

FT-SE INDEX 112368]

September 15. 1992 Tat 33273 Cafe 17822
Pit 15451 FT-SE Calfc 6382 Rat 10499
■Umtcriyine *ewri(y price.

2300

2350 2400

2450 2500

2550

r.n.

Sep

73

32

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3

1

1

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145

99

59

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157

122

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68

45

32

Dec

210

134

120

90

W

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Phb

285

~

200

145

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44

90

SO

130

Oa

35

59

34

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112

147

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43

69

75

105

113

143

Da

62

66

88

110

137

150

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70

100

150

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1 6 10 12

4 6 7 1

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31 70 97 I'a

3 44 74 23

LONDON FOX
COCOA

Sep 587-585 Dee 725 BID

Dec 6(5-614 Mar 754-753

Mar 645-644 Mav 767 BID

May 664-662 Jul ' 7S8 BID

Jul 680 BID

Sep 70O4»98 Vnhnne 3939

ROBUSTTA COFFEE p)

Sep 750-740 May 800-790

Nov 761-760 Jul 815-805

Jan 778-777 Sep 830417

Mar 793-792 Votome 3729

RAWSUGAi? (FOB}

CCnnrikon May 20UW0.0

Spot n/a Auc 205.0-95.0

Oh 21 1.0-09 J) Ocr 204.M4.0

Da 202.0-96.0 Da 205 <H>10

Mar — 201. 0-00.0 Votunw 104

WHITE SUGAR (FOB)

Rentes May 265.844.5

Spot 274 S Airs 269.3-67.0

Oh 264.9-61.0 Od 259 8-572)

Dee 259.9-591) Dee 260 8-57.0

Mar 262.962.0 Volume 2366

MEAT 4 LIVESTOCK COMMISSION
Avenge Emtock pried m represenuiiw
madcas on September IS
tp/kglm) Pig Sheep Cade

GB; 78.72 70J8 108-21

{•/-) -2-47 -1.87 -0.07

Engrwate 78.72 7058 108 10

(./-) <022 -2.00 41.54

PM -Oil -27.9 -19.1

Scotland: n/a 66.S0 108.58

K4 n/a -4.11 -1.54

TO n/a -82.9 -39.2

LONDON MEAT FUTURES
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Open a* Open dose

Sep _ unq 106.0 May . 104 0 1042)
Mar. IOIjO 101.0 Volume:?

GN1 LONDON
GRAIN FUTURES
WHEAT
fcfaseMJ

SfP-

.. . ..... 114X0

Not

Jin .

. _. 118.70

Mar

Mgy

121.85
... 125.15

Volume* 243

BARLEY

(dose Eft)

117X5

Jan .

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unq

Volume SS

Da .

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Dec-

Jun unq

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Open One
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Apr.,

56X 54.6

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No I RSSCtffpA)

Oa 53.00-52.50

(Offlrial) (V utimn pcevday)

Copper Gde A ff/tonnej j

Lead £/ tonne)

Zinc Spec Hi Gde {$/unnd -

TtntMofinej

Ahnmnhim Hi Gde (S/maneg
NieU (S/mnuefr

IC1S-LOR (London 6.00pa$ Crude levels eased
Monday’s gains as traders strugaied lo find some
direction prior to the Opec meeting.

CRUDE OILS (Rbanrci FOB)

Breni Physiad 20 JO -4). IS

Brent 15 day (Oa) 2035 -0.J5

Brera ISdcylNcM 20.60 -0.10

W Texas Irurrmrdtaie (OdJ 2220 -0.05

W Teas l aiecr ne di aa (Nov) 22.05 -0.10

PRODUCTS (StMT)

Spot C1F NW Europe (pnmipl ddrinj)
ftemara Gas . 1 5 Bid-219 (n/d Ofler22l (n/d

Goaod EEC 191 (n/cl 192 (n/q

Non EEC 1H Oa __ 194 |-l) 194 (-1)

Non EEC I H Nov — 199 (»1) 200 *1)

33 Fuel CW 89 (n/cj 91 (-1)

Naphtha 190(-1) 192 (-11

IPE FUTURES
GNI lid
GASOIL

Oa 1 9230-92.75 Jan 19fi.7S-97.00

Nov 195.0095^5 Feb 193.25 BID

Dec n/a Mar 187.00-88.00

V<* 12397

BRENT (6.00pm)

Od 2036-2037 Jan n/a

Nov 2060-20.61 Feb n/a

Dec 2036-20.58 V’ofc 26664

UNLEADED GASOLINE

Oa n/a Jan 206.00-12.00

Nw 2 10DO-1 2.00 Feb 206.00-I0.00

Dec Z074U-IZJX1 Vot 36

BIFFEX
GNI Ltd $>Q/p9

Oa 92 High: 1 162 Low 1 157 Close: 1 157
Nov 92 1165 1160 1160

Jan 93 1195 1195 1195

1260 1260 1260
Vot 110 tots- Open inrst 2840 index 1053 same

LONDON METAL EXCHANGE Rudolf WoW

nh: 128 1.0-1 282.0 3nafc 1307.0-13073 Yot 1582Q25
3364X3-33 7 AO 343AO-343.5Q 130725

1355A-I356A I335A-1336.0 769725

6765.0-6770.0 681523*8160 18380

1 270.a 1 2703 1 2923-1 Z932) 1 395725

699X069960 706SD-7066D 57636

Weak overseas markets
put pressure on Dow

New York — American shares
fell sharply in early trading as
market participants took prof-
its after Monday's 7 1 -point
rally.

Poor August retail sales
joined an easier dollar and
weak overseas equity markets
to put pressure on prices,
traders said-

The Dow Jones industrial
average was down 20.S1
points at 3,355.41. Broad-
based dedining shares topped
advancing shares three to one
on volume of 20 million.

George Pinone. senior trad-
er at Dreyfus Corporation,
said: “What you are seeing is
tite overseas markets down

and lower than expected retail
sales." He also cited as a
negative a steep drop in 1 BM.

□ Frankfurt — German share
prices retreated during yester-
day’s session in a modest
consolidation of the strong
gains posted on Monday,
which were a reaction to the
cut in German interest rates.

Share traders said volumes
were relatively low in compari-
son to Monday’s activity. One
said: “This is a normal reac-
tion after such a strong ad-
vance." The Dax index ended
7.49 points lower at I.5S7.55.

□ Tokyo — The stock, market
was dosed yesterday for a
national holiday. (Reuter)

Stp lo Stp IS
nvdday dat

Stp io Sip I)
nrikby dow

AMP Inc 69, 61V

AMB COtp 9*. 60S

A66C0 Law JC*> X 1 .
Arm Ufe 39. 39.

Ahmsnmn IHR 15 IS,
Air Prod • awm «7>.
Albcraonf 0, 47,
Alan Alumnm Iff, ir,
AKO Stannum 36". »<•
anted Signal SS% 56

Ahun CD of Am 6V. TO

Amn IV. IV,

Amort* Hess 4V, 48'.
Amer Bonds 4T, 47s
Amer cnnunM eos to
Asm B Power ir, 3Ti
Amer Etc pros 2?, 2T.
Amet Cent Corp Ms 4V,
Amer Home Pr 72s 72s
amer inti 96 96*,

Amn stock W, ».

Amer TAT 44'. «S*.

AmertieHi or, m

Amoco 51V 51'.

Anbeiuer-BnaHi ST. DS
Apple CDmpiua iv, 4V,
AT T-rwr Daniels 2T. 2A
Adda IV, II

Annco 6S o’,

ArmHmg wrM 30, JOS
Asarco W. XT.

ASUand 011 27. «S

AH RicMteid I IV. IIA

A010 Data Pro 47 47 1 .

Amy Dambon 28', 2V>
Amn Prrxhws 57. S3S
Baker hukDo 24 24s

Hamm Gar k D 27, 22S
Banc one 44s 44

BankAmertca 44s 44’.

Bank 0/ NY 42 43

BSRkeo Tr NT aT, HP.

Bamcti B*s FI 35', 39.

BauKb ft Lamb 52s Ds
ncotr iml 35 »%

Bean OUnsn 7V, TV.

Bdl AfelUk 4 T. 48S

8eHSautti SIS SIS

Black 6 Decker IV. 10s
Block [HUU 35S 3V.

BodDB JTi 77\

Boise Cascade IV, IV.
Borden Inc 28S 2W

Bitsui Mjm Sq 67*1 6V>

sroan/os Ferns ZT. 2Hk

Rirttnpnn Nttan Tr, 3V.

CBS 209*. 212*.

CNA Financial SV, B9S

cpc ind 4V. SIP.

CSX 61'. 61 S

Campbell Soup 38', 3V,

Can Panne M 14

Cptl Odes ABC 454 4SV,

Cpd HoMlilgS 62*. 62S

Carolina Pwr S2*. ST.

caterpillar ST, 53

Cams! ft SW 2SS 29

Champion lull 25*. 26s

Chase Mandat 22S 23

Chemical Bk 31k 32

Cherron Chip 73 72k

Chiysier 21s 22*.

01066 cup 75 75*.

Cigna C6rp en 4B%

auemp ' Ids IV.
aarai 43'. «*.

Coastal Corp 2V. 29

CUaCob 44S 44k

Colgate Palm 55s 56k

Columbia Gas Iff. jgs

Common* El m W

Compaq Comp 3*. S3*,

comp ASS !U lb IV.

CO Win 2Vi 30k

cuss Edison ns 30*.

Cbm Nai Cas IT. 47k

cans Bail SI’. 92

Cooper lads 52 52,

Coming Inc J7S J7S

Crown cut 3ss JV.

Dana Corp 3 V. 3V.

Dayton Hudson 6V. 6V.

Deere 41k elk

Delta Air Lines 55 SV.-

Ddm* Oxp 42S 42*.

Detroit Bdtoon 3l*i 32S

K Equip 38S JA

Dept St 35k J5S

Disney (WalO 36*. 36S

Dominion Kes 3V, 39S

DoneOCT (KB) 20*. 30k

Dcwer corp 43*, 43',

Door Chemicals 5T. 59

Dow Jones 32. 32S

Drew 19k 2D.

Dttioe ftmer 3F, 3Jk

Don a BidSDeet S6S 57-.

Du Ptnn 4V. 48*.

Eastman Eodu 44s 45*.

Eaton Corp T9. 7V.

Emerson EM
Eitgefluud corp
Enron Corp
EntCTKy COfp

Ethyl Corp
Exxon
EMC Corp
m. croup
Federal exptbp
Fed NW M«e
First Q llcago
First Interxmtc
FWi UWon Wly
Fleet FIN Grp
Fluor corp
Fort Motor
GTE Dorp
Gannett
Cap lnc Del
Gen cinema
Gen Dynamics
Gen Efc grt c

Gen MJU

Gen Mown
Gen Reinsurance
Gen signal
Genuine Pane
Georgia Pic
GUlenc
CM so ADR
Goodrich (BR
Goodyear Ure
Groce (WAR)

Cn AH Fac Tea
Great Wsm Fin
KalUhurron
Hdnz IHJ)
Kercnles
HttJhey Foods
Kewks Padonl
HDtuo Hotels
Home Depot
Homesake
Honeywell
Household loU
Houston tods
Humana
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Illinois TON
INTO

mgenoU kind
Inland steel
Intel Corp

liul Paper
James turn va
Rinm A Jhran
K Man

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KHT-MCGee

Wm6er$yOartt
KnlghHUdder
Uily CEID
Limbed me
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Lincoln nw
Linon

Lb Ctaltnme-
ucttecd corp
Louisiana pat
MO Common

Marriott

Maph A Mdnn
Martin Martena
Masco Corp
May Dept Si
Maytag Corp
McCtw Cellular
McDonalds
McDonnell d
M oGnw HID
Mewl Corp
Medtronic
Melton Bk
MeMUe Carp
Merck lnc
Merrill lynch
Minnesota Mine
Mono Corp
Monsanto

Morgan pp|

Motorola UK
Nad Medial
Nad Semi
Natl Senior Ind
Navtsur lm
NBO Bancorp
NY Times A
NewiDom Mng
Nb| Mohawk
Nte n
NL industries
Nordstrom
Noftott sthro
NOn Suae Pwr
Noiwesi Corp
Nyna Corp
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Kingfisher flying
in fine style

G iven the calamities that have befallen other
attempts to knit together household name
. . ret *“ chains during the eighties, King-

£S.! 3m !l at i 1 ! birthda y ^ autumn

“““ft™" 1 * Kingfisher is, of course,

a vastly different bird to the lame duck that F W
Woohwnh had become In 1982. Anyone who had
spent the last ten years on the moon might, it is true,
besurpnsed to find that the old Woolworth’s high
stte« network remains pretty much in its old form,
but these days earning a much more decent return on
salesmen if little of die profit is wrapped up before
Christmas.

As its first chairman, John Beckett had predicted
from the outset the Woolworth ship took a long time
turning, but after seeing off Stanley Kalms* £1.8
billion attempt to establish Dixons in the retail
premier league in 1986, the busy acquisition
c™T e w f uch brou ght in Comet, B&Q and
Superd rug began to add growth to the group’s
rediscovered stability. The early acquisition phase
now over, Geoff Mulcahy and his team now have the
task of ensuring that recession is not allowed to
undermine the achievement On the basis that
recognising the problem is half way to a solution,
Muicany's comments yesterday should be well
reccrved. “I am often asked when I think the upturn
will finally arrive*’, he said. “This is no longer the
nght question. The issue is how to increase profits
through the lower growth years to come".

A sum of £300 million has been earmarked for
investment in improving productivity and service
over the next three years. Discounting will be
increasingly abandoned, on the perception that
customers will respond to more consistent lower
pricing provided they are guaranteed value. It is an
interesting theory but so far this management team
has been more right than wrong.

Bundesbank woes

O rdinary Germans are worried that their
Bundesbank has lost its independence. It
may be one of the world’s most powerful
central banks but the Bundesbank’s independence
has always been strictly limited under law to the
conduct of day-to-day monetary policy. In any other
respect the Bundesbank is veiy much dependent
Under under a law of 1 957 it is required to support
the government’s overall economic polities.

There have been several previous occasions when
the Bundesbank was overruled by Bonn and forced
to act against its better judgment most notably in the
run-up to German monetary union in 1 990 and in
the run-up to the exchange rate mechanism in 1 979.
On each occasion politicians have prevailed over the
Bundesbank for die simple reason that even in
Germany, exchange rate policy is not a matter for
undected central bankers but for elected poftitians.
The power over exchange rate policy, including the
right to authorise a realignment in the ERM, is also
the politicians' trump card against unruly central
bankers. This week the German government used its
card by yidding to the Bundesbank’s demands for a
realignment in return for a rate cut
A future European central bank will also follow in
the Bundesbank’s semi-independent footsteps. It will
be independent when it does not matter and
dependent when important economic and political
issues are at stake. President Francois Mitterrand
exaggerated only slightly when he said that under
European monetary union politicians will still
determine the framework of monetary jjolicy, while
the implementation will be left to “technicians”. The
events this week have shown that those dreaded
Bundesbankens are nothing other than a group of
high calibre “tedinidans”.

the welcoming valleys of Wales

Jobless figures for the
principality are now
lower than the national
average. Ross Tieman
examines Wales’s
return to prosperity

M id afternoon, mid-
week. Mid Glamor-
gan. Two workmen
are putting the final
touches on a canopy that arches from
the lobby of he sleek, black Sony
factory towards twin artificial lakes in
the grounds.

On the nearby M4 motorway,
traffic is busy, but fluid. Fifteen miles
east along dial road, in Caidiff. the
shopping streets are crowded too.

Wales has changed. Seven years
ago. unemployment in the principali-
ty averaged 13.9 per cent. 2.7 per
oent worse than the national average,
and almost five points higher than
the level of Greater London.

Yet the unthinkable has happened.
In July, employment department
statisticians recorded jobless levels in
Wales 0. 1 per cent below die national
average, at 9.6 per cent In London,
the rate is now 10.6 per cent the
highest on record.

Of course, the recession rippled out
of the South East into the rest of
Britain, so Welsh unemployment
may rise faster later in the economic
cyde. But surveys from both the
British Chambers of Commerce and
the Confederation of British Industry
suggest that businessmen in Wales
are notably more optimistic than
their peers nationwide. And for good
reason. According to the CBI. the
proportion of firms in the principality
working below capacity has fallen in
each of the past three quartets and
now stands at 63 per cent, again
below the national average. Even
more striking: on balance respon- ’
dents expected to increase employee
numbers over foe next four months.

The CBI findings are supported by
research from foe BCC It is dear that
the Welsh economy is now considera-
bly more healthy than the national
economy, and compares favourably
with other regional bright spots, such
as the North East East Midlands,
and briefly Merseyside.

What each of these regions has in
common is manufacturing invest-
ment It is simplistic, but entirely
reason abler to~poinrtD the construc-
tion of car plants as a key part of why
each has- avoided the drubbing
suffered by the, national economy.

Where a manufacturer has estab-
lished assembly operations, compo-
nent suppliers have followed, and the
pump-priming spending has flowed
out into the regional economy. Thus
Nissan has become a driving force in
the North East Toyota in the East
Midlands. Ford and VauxhaB on
Merseyside. In Wales. Honda and
Ford have poured a fortune into
engine plants, while continental
European groups have been develop-
ing component operations.

There is more to the Welsh story, .,
than motors, though. A decade ago. .
the Welsh economy was dominated

Inward urge: Phil Head. WDA chief executive, cast a global net in search of manufacturing investment

by extractive and heavy industry,
much of it in decline. Coal and steel
were foe region’s lifeblood. Today,
there are only three large pits left (one
is earmarked for closure), and Sony,
the Japanese electronics group, has
more employees than British CoaL
Where Britain in the 1980s fol-
lowed the Thatcher doctrine that a
highly developed service sector was
foe sign of a modem economy, foe
Welsh Development Agency (WDA),
strongly supported by the Welsh
Office, cast a global net in search of
inward manufacturing investment
While men from Essex donned
white socks and headed for City
dealing rooms, Welsh youngsters
learned to make, things. For most of
the past decade. Wales has been, and
remains, the most popular location in
Britain for inward investment Since
1985,' manufacturing output in
Wales has grown by 31 per cent
compared with 1 1 per cent for the
UK as a whole. Trend growth in
manufacturing has been almost twice
foe national average, and higher
than in any other region. As a result
the share of manufacturing in Welsh
gross domestic product is now almost
5 per cent higher than nationally.

High interest rates and foe collapse
of the southern housing market have
put Essex trader on his uppers and
turned his customers into hermits.

But in Wales, they are still malting
things, and consumers can still afford
to shop on a midweek afternoon.'

The development of international
markets has played an important
part in Wales's continuing prosperity.
Exports have helped protect the
Welsh workforce from foe weakness
of the UK economy. Whether they
can continue to do so, in the face of a
sagging dollar and softening de-
mand in Britain's two biggest export
markets. Germany and France, re-
mains to be seen.

T he omens are good. Critics
have disparaged many of
foe new breed of Welsh
factories as “screwdriver
plants”, assembly operations that
could as easily be manned by mon-
keys. and whose owners could dose
them and shift production elsewhere
at the drop of a franc, or indeed a
recalcitrant, union-wielded spanner.

At die outset, there was indeed a
measure of trepidation, particularly
among Japanese investors. Yet the
sums of money invested in produc-
tion facilities are so substantial that
manufacturers cannot simply walk
away- Multinational investors may
be fickle, but they are not feckless.
Their enthusiasm for a location is
better signalled by a slowdown in
new investment flows. Closure is a

final reort of desperation; it is also
exceedingly rare.

Ask any inward investor about the
attractions of Wales and he. or she.
win speak of good communications
and a stable workforce. An English-
man may perceive South Wales as
isolated, and on the fringes of the
European Community. From Detroit
orTokya an uncluttered motorway, a
helping hand with foreign customs
and planning procedures, and a
cheap workforce are more important

The Welsh workforce is relatively
cheap, as well as reliable and eff-
icient According to an analysis by
Oxford Economic Forecasting earlier
this year, average earnings in Wales
in 1989 were 99.2 per cent of foe
national average. But productivity, at
109.7 per cent was bettered only in
foe northern region. Consequently,
unit labour costs, at 90.4 per cent of
the national average, were foe most
attractive in Britain.

The OEF report concluded that "it
is high productivity investment which
is dictating the (rend in foe region's
relative unit-labour costs". In other
words, if you can persuade people to
invest in manufacturing, efficiency
improves, and foe region begins to
outperform its rivals.

There are other benefits: Inward
investment has introduced modem
management practices, and moder-

nised employee relations, as well as
manufacturing techniques. Com-
panies have always shared a measure
of information and allowed rivals to
visit their plants. The effect, in Wales,
has been to pass on a lot of new
practices which place more emphasis
on foe employee. Managers who
have worked in Japanese plants are
also beginning to be headhunted.

Finally, foe screwdriver charge is
starting to wear thin. As plants grow,
and production experience is accu-
mulated. there is a tendency for
managers to want increased control
over the technological content of
production. Investors from Japan
and Europe have tended to respond
favourably to such pressure. After ail
engineers are far cheaper to hire here
than in Cologne or Osaka.

All of which is fine, up to a point.
But what will happen in the 1990s?
Throughout the 1980s, inward in-
vestment has provided foe backbone
of growth in foe Welsh economy. A
partnership has been established
between foe WDA, foe Welsh Office
and local authorities that has succeed-
ed in attracting foreign firms. But rhe
1 990s look likely to be tougher. Most
Japanese and American Grms that
believed they had lo establish produc-
tion within foe European Commun-
ity before the single market in 199;?
have already arrived. Moreover, the
one-off influx of vehicle assembly and
component manufacture is petering

OUL

A ccording to PhD Head,
chief executive of the WDA:
"Wales has done relatively
well over the last ten years
in attracting new investment and
making its employment base more
diversified." However, he says. GDP
per head is still the lowest in
mainland UK. The challenge now.
foe WDA believes, is to use the
improved manufacturing base as a
catalyst for indigenous development.
To that end. it is putting great effort
into developing supplier pro-
grammes to encourage foe incomers
to buy components and services
locally.

But Wales also needs to broaden
foe intefleema] content of its econo-
my. This is a region that, traditional-
ly. has suffered foe loss of many of its
most able people, drawn by superior
opportunities for betterment
elsewhere.

Capturing foe research and dev-
elopment functions associated with
foe new manufacturers is a part of
that process which, it appears, is
already underway/ But foe overseas
rivals for Wales, and for Britain as a
whole, are not just the developed
countries. Increasingly, Wales is com-
peting. on cost, to do work that would
otherwise be carried out in the newly
industrialised economies of South
East Asia, such as Taiwan, Singapore
and Hong Kong, and the tigers on
their tails — Malaysia. Thailand,
Indonesia, and so on.

In this contest, it is foe quality of foe
workforce, from shopfloor to direc-
tors' chair, that wfll be critical.
Having learnt foe techniques of
modem manufacture. Wales must
now develop the capacity to innovate,
and build foe service sector that its
enlarged manufacturing base can
now support.

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THE TIMES

Another goes
from P&D

THE outflow of analysts from
UBS Phillips & Drew contin-
ues. Paul Compton, its engi-
neering analyst and ranked
fifo in Extel's league table wfll
resign from foe firm this
morning amid speculation
that his departure is lin ked to
foe dismissal of controversial
author Terry Smith, its former
head of research. Compton,
with P&D for four years, has
landed a job with Credit
Lyonnais Laing. where he will
be reunited with John
Holmes. The two men were
once colleagues at Morgan
Grenfell. "He used to be head
of Morgan Grenfell Securities
which is where 1 worked
before and 1 will be working
for him again at Laing." says
Compton. He denies, howev- ,
er. that his departure is direct-
ly related to Smith’s treatment
by P&D. "The Terry Smith
affair had no direct bearing on
this decision." he said. "I have
been in talks with Credit
Lyonnais for six months. I am
going to them because they
have offered me a better salary
and because 1 want to work for
an independent research
firm."

Face to mace

BZW equity sales trader Dan-
ny “make my day” Butienwho
admits to being a Clint
Eastwood fan, reveals that he
acquired foe new Eastwood-
style nickname after trapping
a burglar beneath a bed in his
Essex home in the early hours
of Sunday morning. But-
ler.46, was awoken at 5am py
strange noises and began a

Smith: trend setter

search of the property. When
he eventually located the in-
truder. he ordered his family
to telephone the police while
he remained firmly on top of
foe bed, threatening foe man
beneath him with a mace — a
souvenir from a Portuguese
holiday — if he dared to move.
“Fortunately he was facing foe
other way, so he couldn't see
me," says Butler. “He turned
out to be about 6ft tall and I’m
onjy 5ft Bins. I didn’t think
about it at the time but after-
wards I started shaking like a
leal He had tried to tefl me
that he had had too much to
drink and was just looking for
somewhere to sleep. Yes, the
air was pretty blue."

Onto a winner ■■

WITH City analysts joking
that Ladbroke should rename
itself Verybroke after the re-
cent fall in its share price, the
arrival of Steve Devany as Its
new director of public affairs
will not come a moment too
soon. Devany, who celebrates

CITY DIARY

his 39th birthday on Satur-
day, is currently with PR firm
Hffl & Knowlton and hopes to
join Ladbroke before the be-
ginning of November. He is,
he says, aware that he has a lot
to live up to, since he will be
succeeding the late John
Haranoff, who died earlier
this year after a lengthy battle
against cancer. HaranofPs
corporate hospitality, on the
race courses of Britain, was
legendary. “I’m not a day-to-
day painter but 1 do have an
interest in horse racing and
obviously at Ladbroke's hospi-
tality is something you can do
rather well because you have
all the fatalities.” says Devany.
“I only knew John by reput-
ation but foe hospitality will
definitely continue.” Devany ,
who admits that his new job
brings with it “a modest in-
crease in package," adds that
his initial efforts wfll be target-
ed on Ladbroke's “depressed
share price. A lot of my early
work will be aimed at foe
City," he says. Delighted rac-
ing enthusiasts in the Square
Mile now expect a fluny of in-
vitations and confidently pre-
dict that the share price could
soon show signs of recovery.

On the fence

CITY hunting enthusiasts are
expressing relief that Charles
Nunneky, a top Robert Flem-
ing man, has been nominated
for election to foe council of
foe National Trust in Novem-
ber. The anti-bunting lobby
desperately wants tbe Nat-
ional Trust to adopt an anti-
hunting line but pro-hunters
say Nunneley, deputy chair-
man of Robert Fleming Hold-
ings and chairman of the Nat-
ional Trust finance commit-

tee, wfll tip the numbers in
their favour. Nunneley says he
is not a hunting man but is in-
dined towards a non-interven-
tionist approach, which
means hunters can count on
him not to support their op-
ponents. “I’m all for allowing
anything wherever possible as
long as it’s legal and doesn’t
hurt anyone." says Nunneley,
who is keen to keep hunting
off foe agenda. “It has noth-
ing to do with the National
Trust or our objectives. As far
as I’m concerned, we should
divorce ourselves entirely from
the hunting issue.”

Credito con brio

TIMING is everything. Ask
Marcello Mandni, chief man-
ager of the London branch of
Credito Italiano, Italy’s sixth
largest bank. Months ago Si-
gnor Mandni derided to have
a restrained and cultural eve-
ning at foe National Gallery
with a redtal by the Quartetto
D’Archi di Torino to celebrate
20 years of European integra-
tion since his bank set up in
London. Then last week the
Italian government announ-
ced Credito Italiano was going
to be privatised, and this week-
end . . . well no more said.
Beseiged by journalists ever
since, Signor Mandni was
yesterday pleading that “we
did not mean to exploit events
or have a high profile” as he
prepared for foe soirte with,
among other guests, senior of-
ficials from foe Bank of Eng-
land. But he did concede that
events would inevitably “add a
little bit of spice" to tbe occa-
sion.

Carol Leonard

Late forwarding of cash on delivery
payments hurts small businesses

Computers and bank management

From Mr Graham Jobson -
Sir, When I read of foe failure
of small businesses in the press
I must confess 1 am not in foe
least surprised. I myself run a
small business and it is my
opinion that businesses such
as mine are hampered at every
turn by big business.

In my particular case I offer
a cash on delivery service to
mail order customers and as
Royal Mail ParceHbrce seems
to have the monopoly on such
a service I deal exclusively with
them. The problem is they
seem very reluctant to forward
my money to me.

As a small business perhaps
my cash flow problems do
seem rather insignificant to
such a large concern but I
cannot help but compare my
problems with the parable of
foe “widow’s mite”. However,
Parce Iforce seems to have no
such humanitarian leaning
and as I am of no particular

importance I now find myself
in foe position of being passed
from one department to foe
next. I have now also come to
the conclusion that if in their
wisdom they deride to hold
onto my money for eight or
more weeks there is very little I
can do about it which as you
can imagine is very frus-
trating.

Therefore, to return to my
previous point small business-
es will erfoer fold or at best
remain small businesses until
some of foe larger corpora-
tions decide to be a little more
tolerant of us.

Yours faithfully.

GRAHAM JOBSON.
Managing Director,

Just Juniors.

Unit 9 A,

Cannon Park Way,

Cannon Park Industrial

Middlesbrough,

Cleveland.

Calling into question fundamental
principles upon which Lloyd’s operates

From Mr Philip Dinhel

Sir, Following the service of
“solvency writs" on many
names, Lloyd’s of London’s
immunity from suit has been
called into question for the
first time in a legal battle that
is being waged.

European law has been
brought to bear, in a counter-
claim to these writs that will
uncover, by “disclosure”,
much that has been hitherto
concealed by virtue of foe
Lloyd's 1982 act

This action, which will eff-
ectively protect names’ assets
beyond their deposit at
Lloyd's. «Qls into question
some of the fundamental prin-
ciples upon which the market

operates. It forms a backdrop
to foe other major litigation
which is also about to com-
mence and will be a means, it
is hoped, of reforming this
institution and restoring the
assets of many aggrieved
names.

Yours faithfully.

PHILIP DINKEL,

Chairman.

Writs Response Group,

PO Box 181.

Adstodc,

Buckingham

Letters to the Business
and Finance section
of 77re Times can
be sent by fax
on 071-782 5112.

From Mr Roy M unden
Sir. As one who. twenty years
ago. initiated foe design and
development of a computer-
ised management informa-
tion system in what was then a
smallish international bank. 1
am frequently dismayed by
foe misconceptions which pre-
vail about die effect of comput-
ers on Lhe management and
use of information.

An example of these mis-
conceptions was provided by
Charles Brett's assertion about
bank account charges Getters
September 9) that “With com-
puterisation of accounts and
reduction of local managerial
discretion the system had to be
codified."

In a well-managed bank in-
formation about costs incur-
red and income from an ac-
count or group of accounts
should certainly be codified
and fed automatically into a
“system". Codifying this infor-
mation allows basic costs and
values (for example, cost trans-
actions; foe cost and value of
money) to be applied uniform-
ly across branches but should
never result in the charging
system being codified.

Making uniform, basic in-
formation at account level
easily accessible to branch
managers and account execu-
tives allows discretionary au-

thority to be delegated to the
local level where such infor-
mation should be married to
personal knowledge of ac-
count holders, thus increasing
local managerial discretion,
not reducing il
T he system I initiated in the
early 1970s has since been
developed under stria user
control to become a powerful
management tool. Those in-
volved must have been doing
something right because my
erstwhile employers recently
completed their acquisition of
a British clearing bank.

Yours faithfully.

ROY V.MUNDEN.

Glebe Cottage. Church Road.
Thomford, Sherborne.

Quicker Taurus

From Miss M. Bel [wood
Sir. The new chairman of the

London Stock Exchange
seems to be rather biased in
favour of Taurus. As a private
investor I hoped to see some
reference to the much shorter
settlement period. This may
create difficulties for us due to
foe bank's slowness in credit-
ing one's account when
cheques are paid in.

Yours faithfully,

MARGARET BELLWOOD,
52 Over Norton Road.
Chipping Norton. Oxon.

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IS Cue Gp JJ5

41 kunuenk- 4:

92 Ktluira Grp ®5

IT® sema Gp *:

1 32 Shenrt crop* 225

» souiMinJa* 2®

I27S TDk 1512.

3 TIM ClfOild* n

X Tekawntr ffl

653 THORN EMI 657

31 Traal Stseno* 45

l®0 TumtaU 291

113 unbreh 1 n

77 It >4
17 1* 154
IS 5.7 l|e
14 4.4 23 J)
14 47 .

Gains wiped out

ACCOUNT DAYS: Dealings began September 7. Dealings, end September l S. §Contango September 2 1 . Settlement day
September 28. § Forward bargains are permitted on two previous business days. Prices recorded are at market dose. Changes
are calculated on the previous day's dose, but adjustments are made when a stock is ex-dividend. Chan g e , yields and
price/earnings ratios are based on middle prices.

1402 Price

High low Company ip)

27 13 vtnsc* i®.

3W 29b voantore B4

357 2t0 Yota 206

IJ 11 worm Selma u

24'. ^wiuiUile* 12

X 154 wnolenle Fl» 15® '

Price Net Ytd

Ip) dre % Pit

1®. . OJ II 166

B4 - « .. le leu)

2®6 ... 170 77 IM

ELECTRICITY

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FINANCE. LAND

23

9ft

94

105

122 dnnlng |w]

I3B

TJ

70

101

154

43- cournuMs

40® -18

130

4ft

107

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lift CTOila

17® - 6

75

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70

60

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35

7 Euro Colour

00

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239

43 Erode

49

33

97

17

342 HAtsnud Ul

455

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33

123

218

155 HIcLhhi

174 1 -4

78

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8875

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70

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603

434 UlWrte

454 -II

189

16

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30 * 2

18

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48 X ARteo Hume 31

61 44 «wn» X

124 BS EUk pie 87

7 r- BumsAnomtm 2>

361 299 CUedonfe 353

1950 1235 amdllfl UOQ

JO 203 Ctaflarer 248

60 SO French* 50

131 103 Gowm 115

8V ffilFlCO V*

13S 10s Non Sine las

6'. 4'. LIT 5

led 36 UgUSIUp X

1S4 HO LOT Foriklms* 117

104 34 Manikin Q

7 l'.Nu Home Laui v.

Jt 24 Heraaita J4

339 114 Rnbbane Bo 195

17 ID BraUnd nr II

218 IX S A U 270

45 11 SMrmfna a

X 34 Singer A fried 3b

863 575 Ktfwcj? 625

93 73 S/P CipilU 74

334 iso TemplDi Gtann 304

FINANCIAL TRUSTS

IMF. MMl'./um EipreH 1193*4 -40S ...

14® Ekdra 172 -i M S82U

540 Keadesan lit SB * 3 4L0 9.9 11.4

50 Inra® 5404 57 7.1 82

Ul JurflneStni 158 * 8 ... IS 4 l2

92 50 MS 5404

l®8 Ui Judlne Sun
UD 100) MAJ
34® 264 MAM

®6Z 46J MAC

iu 81 smnb no cn

97 57 sialtng TS*

380 AD FOOT 380
S', as da Group a
31 Alben Flsbc Js
271 An30 JM

12 AUky Group 18
M3 ABO c Ftsoerks II®
143 Banki (5 G ISO
200 BOlTlAG] 293

78 Benmu Cnu* n

10 Bs&ford ind. 1?,

13 Bio baton* 13 .

316 .Booker 324

n Bannwick »
339 Brake Bros 340
31 Bodgen 35

413 CadbutF-ScM 132
64 Om MOT lug 64
13 duke fbods* 18
105 Oil fart M -A- 105
l« CruBwki* 146

20 Oilfens X

352 Djlgrty 3*7

X DiaietS S 34

234 FuepiU 238

8 F5uTlngtaTx2 8

S3 finUT ttunen 57

73 FjHa 76

314 been 314

7 data/* 7

45 HBZkWOOd Fas 58
19 HDUdown 7®
38 Hunter iephlr 38
412 Keiand Pram 488
IOS'-tu Group K6
514 KWtk Seve 048
169 urwiwmj ISO
19 MMhewslB) 40

9 Mereheru Reran 12

Bi'.sumion (Wl ix

318 Ml dials UNI 425

215 NIhJI ROT or,

21 6 rural bm Fn* a
132 Minim Fact at
TSVPltfc Foom 145
55 PeiUra Food 36
5 PaimJgu S

135 BHM 140

I'lRCgtni HUB* r.

337 SUtabury J 426

234 SJlresen K1 283

38 saray Firm* 45
175 Stras Food 175

2H Tate A l$k 2S

207 Ttodl 2DT,

IS5 Tbraaons uj

83 Trent* IDS

210 unhmre 110

2Z2 UM Bteula 270

11 usbome 16

210 w arson 6 Fbn 210

... 7.1 82

... JJ 9l2
U U 9J
11-5 5J 103
190 54 04
4J 7.1 32
SO . 15

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... 37 143 37

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-I 1.9... 15

... 70 7J 210

... 8.2 7J 75

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... IJ 4.4 83

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... 1.1 4.9 X9

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110

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3® 81 ...

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... 115 146 50

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... 05 33 1*17

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... 02 LO 372

... 50 20 16®

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- 5 70 JJ 1 0.7

10 30 105
... Ill 86 7.4
-3 111 50 82
• Hi 63 40 104
... 36 31 05

. . 34 4J UO

- 7 153 9.7 7J
*6 151 7.7 91

04 33 98
... 08 81 90

HOTELS. CATERERS

16 Abrnn sifc h* ra . ..

52 C«j Came Rar all 14

IX FOOT 123 - 8 9®

102 friendly Hotel] 102 - 2 51

?• Harmony ld>* o • 'r .
I* Lad broke 154 - 5 11.1

jTiMuuiinn onui ms ... .

■JVQUKM MOW 34 - 7 28

of: -do- TiN cvpr 62 - 7 75

3 KKd Hoeto* 3 »

48 Eeson Hoceb 51 - 3 14

42S 5»®y Haul *• ml . . 70

a snttprani iXi* x

x suns 21 - 1 a®

INDUSTRIALS

US AAF Inds 171

460 AAH 4B)

343 ADT 395

149 UM 145

57 APV U

•6 ASW 56

t»» Adwesi ®5

5 Aerorpece Eng 7

213 .vimpfune ji®

38 Akndm w to

10 AIUSI RwUi la

354 vlumne J80

25 AM$ 25

.*1 5 Amber bid 579

13 Arobtflev Gp* U

125 .Uidre*] Site IX

MT> krurHsosa cl 8

2»- Armour 32

05 Asb 8 Lac? 135

I'.AM Br tnp 2
XU A-.on Ruther 349

ICO Assoc Nurse* IN)

455 4ll*i Equip* 435

S AynbliT Mai A

w; B8A 114

to* BET OlO 9®

X DLP Croup* „i|

M BM Gp W

!83 BOC MS

4I-.B5G 55'.

3®6 BS5 Group K2

355 BTR 444

4- Balley [CH]
97 Baird (Wmr

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20

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42

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-13 301 61 IS I
12 67 81
53 II 156
SJ 1® 167

1 97 Baird (Won iw

ol8.B*rta» Rand M3'.

12 Barren IHI 12
41 Bavaes KOinesl 42
15 Baulorf X

5 Beckentua* ®
Id Badtanl iwi* 1;

13 Berucm Group IPi

+n Bcjpak ISO

;i5 Blbby dl I15 :
81 BUtom ID 125
28 BUsran Rm* 43

T.Hmei; Ind 7.
X Black Arrow 21

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tq'. Bixl 1 ran 1 12
32 BlueMrd Toys* 1 16
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41 BOOdl Inch 44
X Braslcid 22

63 Boaier 742 1

•15 BOwalcT Inc I <777 '
tx Bmmsre Inn* ix

|J Biancas IP-

212 B rammer 213
23 Bridgend Gp 23

38 Bndon 38

3 Brtdpwr-GncbT 58
23 Bnedey Hit a

348 Br BMC 4 Eng 348

39 Br BMMSTKk* 42

348 Br Mj-thme ffi
4b Br See) 51

88 Br Siphon 88
ill Br TTwnion 11

212 Br Vita 110

429 Broken HU1 475
75 Bronugne bid 75
3 Brook* ThOI J
41 Brown ft ime 43
100 Buibugn 104
13 Bunneu Tern* 11
IS Cl Group 21
2'-CaMi En y.

25 CarapbU ft Am 25
3 CXn run a 4
I TO (Sj* IX

262 Capita Croup 337
131 onto Eng ui
1675 Csroaud Mfl XI 3

467 CTuner Com see

703 Chonrins «33

95 cueftsln GP* 102

IP cnllMngKm 18

195 CIBtolKf im 112

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50 Cbynn Sot ix

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305 Cohen 1*1 MS

24 Comic* X

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17 0 63 105
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... 90 17 17.9

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92 30 147
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12 7fl 89

40

4.1 9.4 7.9
. . . 250

90 30 123
45 IIJ 505
36 IS ~

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05 U V
30 80 70
43 66 S3

144 54 14.7
270 25 IDS
85 S2 X2

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40 63 17.9

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2.12 cnreemne 3X
23 Coro SBflmkij 38
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X Ccpymoir* X
176 CruwD fkr'A' 193
7<,corpSerrtces T,
IX CBUU IX

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168 Dmka&Sys an
7 nano inn * 9

145 Dnfe5ffylee 154
474 DeU Rue so

10 DUiUeHeel x

263 DSdonu 286
52 Dobson rat c
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54 -do-- A' «

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11 EITGp* 18

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35 EkW X

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346 En80llraa 346
9oo Edesan-r un
60 EesMncHje 67
» Euruarpi 31

3 Expwuei 44

MB FbtreyGluup 394

74 Fenner ts

'. Ferrano* *

36 reiTum X

X File Indmr 40 1
143 FbTOB 166

X Flu-Dlnn X

210 FMW 210 •

47 Faite Group nv 47
43 French fTRm*l 43
288 from Group 397
72 GEI IOC 72

XI GKN 354

63 GKKHg! 63

90 arm Eng *>
93 Gemetner 134
X G teres 31

632 Clara 776

14 cie ne heaw ca 15*1

IX Gljiroed IB
68 GoodcDuTivni 77
113 Granraltn Hd is
142 Granadi zx
246 Grewsrhio* 254
85 Green (Emo* 87
6 Greemae* fi

9 Gumlien Grp* 9
26 Widen Matin X
51 KtoSdBbUdM 61
118 Kill Eng lift

4 mnjHoaes* 4

14 Hslaa 166

x lumpera bid 32
154'; Hinson XJ
IX Hnr6 (FMHjp zn
io« Kanuacaod im
3b HmkctEni) x
I Hawthorn Lo* y,

II HatNoroOU 21
19 IHtoOtolf 19

2X Herwonti JU

116 Herein 01 LD
155 Hlah-FObn 157
94 MftftSmiai ®4
3 Hotean* 6

X Holden TWia m
46 HonnoProcean 46
X HopklnMOS 32
202 Harnbr* 202
aSHasptaiOr Uh

39 Howden 40 1

I S3 Hunting 153

2S5 Hunti# Tec* 640
98 Hush Wbamp 106
2M> IM1 22®

¥> ISA IDil 5®

375 Inchcape 404
131 buBareGp* IX
175 bornm IB

25® Janliiie Kerb js»
568 feftruoii deui 568
317 Johnson Minb 414
9 3 JMbuonftn 50
IX Joiutsam IJ7
H Jones Slrtpoun is
B jourdin [71 25 '

29 UlWMZOO S
7® lilac . tv,

273 Kdsauid 273
465 KenlawiAl 466
44 KkOI-EZc 46

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... li.l 4.7 165 ,

... U SI 78 1

... 100 87 6j4 I

• I 60 55 193 :

.. 17 95 71 I

55 15 WJ

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... 70 81 13 J

07 42 HJ

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... 17 15 70

ii’ 79 69 130

- 5 ISO 36 182

a ! 09 63 IOJ

... 87 4.1 16®

.. 5.7 14.7 10

... SO 79 119

... SO 11.9 80

... 16 tbl II

-06'. .. 83 24.7

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... ur 1JJ 4®
... 40 17.2 32

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4.4 9.4

... 13 67 17

... 3ft IL2 14ft
... 20 0.7 282

- 2 23 13ft 17.9

» 3 205 7.7 216
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... 70 84 ...

- 2 82 88 lift

214

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iil lift 'IS 167
... S4 84 UJ
... 35 80 184

-rs 70 42 ISO
... ttfl S3 UU
... 70 107 7J

... 82 36 142

*' I 80 "i ‘S4
... IJ 17 ...
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12 "U 2L7
... 13 6® 8®

-2 1L0 U I2J
... 82 41 141

- 3 90 187 181

... LS 36 ...

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J.® 52

-2 143 81 87
... 15 IS 105

... 75 . . 60

7.7 105

"! aio lift 83

-‘1 ji? 134 19
... 40 39 UJ

(02 2ft

... 20 67 —

- I tOO 87 UL)

- 3 4ft 89 372

- 1 189

... NO 3® 135
... IJ 31 112
-11 12ft 41 172

- | 20 10 1 7ft

.2 39 JO -

*10 ... 14 13.7

.. 237 60 lift
.. 96 II 189

.. 30 BO JJJ

... 90 88 85

’.ii Ift’iiliii

97 23.9

... 32 34 12ft

-S 260 12.7 44
... 270 77 241

JM.’

High Law Cranpany

377 2ST.Skbe
248 IB SOamUgm
96 65 Sins WJDy

JM ix sinxm Eng
290 X 5 andWrOhnl
51 27 9x Hundred

157 M Stechlcy
l«. IZ7 Srairb ft Nepfa
MS NbiSmiihkim

467 353 SBUtttnetM

335 2H Smiths ind
Ui 19 Stan On
350 zn 3 panda*

370 230 Speu-uwi

33 31 5(tiEH-Sira

18l KB Sprtns Run
H6 85 SagFnmlmre
37 18 SQUIleiMeBLl*

48 21 sorQnnp

200 IX Saeeky
.131 IBS Seerttetura
14'. 4 SHOTS!

64 Soar

80

143 7J

IX SwacFadc-A'

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8 Sycamore

5S

... 100

zn Sxtane

SO IIJ

« T4P4

131 r - 2

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109 25J

255 Tl

268 -17

102

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10 T10 Range*

Ift - 1

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167 TT Group

192 - 2

S3

IX TUore

IU '3

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405 TatedaQxaa

532 >6

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19 TaHKJgS

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99 Klid

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120 SJ

85 Tllon*

TaTiTomUns

241 -6

31 164

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44 - 2

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31 -dO-'A’

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345

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135 Trtpta Lloyd

177

70

68 106

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210

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250 Unidare

270

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414 - l

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80 -4

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277 tVnnlw

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33 133

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240 vnsper Thorny

338

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48 waGardeaibli

3®5 - 1

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17 148

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393

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30 103

210 whemoe

227

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78 210

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40

60

200 96

INSURANCE

■DOS Ala ft Ala
2250 *e n Car
27 Archer lAil
13 Bradsnck
762 SrtWBIk

4Q2 1 "row union

19 FAI

356 Gea Arddenl

100 GRE

212 HeUbCE

108 HORS Gp
102 JIB Group
2(7 Legal ft GO
557 UbBlT Uk
295 Dflpd] Abhey
leo Lbwo Tborap
203 Inarm ft Man
224 Lo>nda Lmb

3931 .Marsh Mein

109 OM

30 pen

19® Prudential
561 Refuse.

WE HAVE A WELL OF INSURANCE
EXPERTISE FOR THE OFF-SHORE
INUrSTRY TO DRAW ON.

YOUR INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE
BROKING PARTNER Q £ HE ATH

133 HOUN DSD ITCH LONDON EC3A 7AH TELEPHONE- 071 234 4000

V Ujw* 34

273 Laird Xo

6» LeeiAntron x

B» Lilies lull o]

71 Unrtn® 71

3 Lincoln fee* I':

6l Unread 74

10 Llnrtm Part HO

is Uanaean 15

rff.Lodeim* lb 1

157*. un Bid it®

5® lOTrtw a®

218 LOWS Boost ms

200 MB-Candon S4

I08-. rao-pf 121'.

14 MlHdB 16

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31 MYHdldtnfts S

(71 Mjc&rtjnr |S3 f

270 MCftefluik 29)

80 MdeodRunel c

? Jiaddoi 7*

73 Ma«TK4la 14'

73 MvsBnma 73

15 Martini! ire,

r Mavborn* «3

IX Medesi 183

66 Metodn tt,

90 M sab «

125 Menec* 177

34 Mfcnad Page 15

3D MUlnatE »

15 Minin? » AM IV,

168 Mute Gp 186

310 MoUm 310

229 Morgan Cbk 246
T® MonUASbUy* m
18 rreepsend is
46 Ncsur-BHA 47
«8 NoboGp <H

66 NDIODS 73

27 Nim> Grasp 27
333 Nu-Swllr 334

31 OOTccElecMae Ji
10 Oku ind U

136 PCT* 145

« pacerSrsniB* 48
88 renna* 175

91 pen nano 132
mo Pboto- My J|S

75 raunjun 07
25 PI* CO* 25

3® Piantsbrooir S6
®3 PBWldpe 97
335 Poruls 375

24 ponercnadtmi 14
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XI Pcwen cmn 226

4 Prime People * 4',

iS’.Pnapea Indi ip-,

ix proudbaAia m

lb. PPS Group* X r

X Radnor Meal so

31 ResiKDOtl* 36

450 Rank On? t a

6 Ransomb ID
523 fecUDCOlm 557
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4® bed Ejfenrht jr
234 Reliance Sec* 2SS
123 Retain 12

243 RDllSbaw 267
44 Resold 4)

4 EenamLuw* 4
982 Baum 1133

W. Pamore 3'.

bt RldUtiolnil 63

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5t Udunban War X

in RDUeSNoUti 224

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100 -d6-'A‘ 100

23 ROC Gp 23

458 Reran. 315

«$ RtiWiem 95

b5 RusjS I LA) 65
14 SEC Iran* 19

750 SILF'B 1 BQO

4 SilrTUnry 4

107 Sanderson Elec 205

32 SsratK* 22

2® SartikCrtiniJ) 33 r

159 Sara IM

in sdun i9o

2, sow HertaWe 3

648 XEUItaH 793

4ft® 4kr‘A‘ 485

98 SeairKiurd 148

367 Securtl* Scrv 345

I'.SeLro App* j

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555 ScroGp 382 t
263 5BMKBHI 2ttf
51 sbeuonJona* ji
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.. .. 118
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5.9 KU TIP
40 5.7 90
5.1 ®4 156

273 136 Ronl 1J7 1

240 IX Sertgwid iu

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232 53 SlUfge KUgl 56

335'.- ill Sun Alliance 254

57 X Trad* Iiraemruj 41

197 167 Tnnolhnde 169

4X ns Lid Friendly 390

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21 14 wlndane 14-.

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- 4 oO 70 HJJ
• I 13ft UU 93

83 146 3ft

- J 14ft 70 ...

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lift 4J »«
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533

INVESTMENT TRUSTS

Hit Alliance 127;
152 Amer Trusl IW)

229 Anp ft Gieai 244
W.B2* com I06-.

lOb’.Banken 108
2U Bartnp Trtone 218
117 Berry Sana m
73 BrAneo 74

46.Br Empire Sec 48
9 -du- who 9
19 Brim 133

-11 410 4ft ft®5
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-6 64 iS 3bS

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10 13 39.9

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25

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1992

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OPTICAL BUSINESS

Far-sighted: as in promotions of the 1950s (left), Lorraine Kelly and Cliff Richard (right), the 1992 Spectacle Wearers of the Year, aim to promote a trendy image

Catching the customer’s eye

T he eye-care industry is in
the throes of an upheaval
that began ten years ago
when the Office of Fair
Trading recommended to the gov-
ernment that the exclusive right of
opticians to sell ready-made read-
ing glasses be abolished. At the
time, opticians came in for a lot of
criticism that their product prices
were too high. “Market forces”, the
government claimed, would bring
down costs if consumers were able
to try and buy from a wider variety
of shops.

The legislation was in force by
April 1989, when entitlement to a
free NHS sight test was also
abolished for everyone who did not
meet the new eligibility require-
ments. Voucher schemes had been
brought in three years earlier for
those on low incomes, and al-
though they did not cover the total
cost of new spectacles, it meant that
even the poorly-off could take their
custom elsewhere.

A further blow came in August
1988, when value added tax was
imposed on previously excluded
optical products. In a matter of
months, opticians saw a drop in
sight-test fees, had to share then-
market with traders such as depart-
ment stores and watched their
prices to the consumer increase by
the rate of VAT, then 15 per cent
but now 1 7.5 percent Close on the
heels of all this came the recession.

It was a jolt to an industry that
had been largely restrained in its

Opticians have lost exclusive rights and gained market rivals.
Pat Blair reports on how the industry is battling for business

marketing and that often projected
an image of the worthy-but-dull
professional scientist in the high
Street That is now chan ging in
today’s retail market of spectacles,
contact lenses and solutions that is
estimated at El billion.

Despite the effects of recession,
there are new companies in the
field, such as Boots Opticians and
Specsavers, which until the mid-
Eighties had kept out of the retail
optical market but are now the
second and third largest groups,
after the long-established DoHond
& Aitchison. Established com-
panies — whether multiples or
independents — are rising to the

challenge of the new dimate and
are seeking to attract custom, rather
than wait for consumers to walk
through the door.

To be able io compete on prices,
independent retailers have banded
together through such companies
as Peny Kirk, the biggest of the
buying groups, which deals with
about 1.200 independent shops
and can negotiate volume-related
deals with manufacturers.

At the same time, frame-makers
and lens manufacturers are waking
up to the fact that while French and
German spectacle-wearers each
own three or more pairs and use
them on different occasions, the

British still average 1.4 pairs of
spectacles a wearer, and that maybe
glasses could lose their image as a
“grudge" purchase in the UK and
be seen instead as desirable, attrac-
tive aids.

A leading frame-maker such as
Silhouette has long advertised dir-
ectly to the public but. according to
Derek. McLaren, the managing
director, when the company first
did so more than 20 years ago,
reaction within the industry was
hostile.

The day of the designer frame
has, nevertheless dawned, riding
on the success of designer sunglass-
es. attracting such names as Savile

FROM November 1 a new
independent service, the Optical
Consumer Complaints Service
(Qccs). is being set up under the
chairmanship of Dame Jocelyn
Barrow to adjudicate where con-
sumers and suppliers have failed
to agree in a dispute over goods
and services. Pat Bkdr mites.
“We see ourselves as a concilia-
tory body, to get satisfaction for
the customer,” says Dame
Jocelyn, who is also deputy
chairman of the Broadcasting
Standards CounciL

CONSUMER AID

Although it will have no statu-
tory powers, optical practitioners
who register with the Occs and
agree to abide by its guidance
will be encouraged to display
window stickers, in the hope that
the public will recognise and use
those practices.

It will have five independent
members and a representative
from the British Association of
Dispensing Opticians, Associ-

ation of Optometrists, the Bri-
tish College of Optometrists and
the Federation of Ophthalmic
and Dispensing Opticians.

The Occs wfll aim to comple-
ment the existing powers of the
General Optical CounciL which
deals with matters of profession-
al misconduct, and fill a gap left
when the sight-test service was
privatised-

Ihose entitled to a free NHS
test can still take their complaint
to their family health services
authority.

Row, DunhQI, Armani and Cartier.

Lens manufacturers too are tak-
ing a higher profile. Firms such as
Pilldngton. Carl Zeiss and
Rodenstodc are already names with
which the cognoscenti are familiar
for both lenses and frames, but
companies better known in other
fields, such as Nikon, are also
making their mark.

A Mori survey for the Federation
of Ophthalmic & Dispensing Opti-
cians last M ays h owed that 5 per
cent of the spectacle-wearing popu-
lation were already buying ready-
made reading glasses.

For those who need prescription
lenses — obtainable through the
country's 6.714 registered optome-
trists and 3,569 dispensing opti-
cians — industry observers believe
that two main trends wiD emerge:
speed and bespoke services.

LensC rafters already advertises
on speed, promising to dispense
many prescriptions within an hour,
a trend that has come from the
United States. Others are likely to
follow the European model and
aim for the top end of the market,
with individual style and tailored
products.

Although it may take the indus-
try time to settle — and nobody
pretends the economic dimate is
easy— it seems the customer stands
to gain, but only if he or die can be
persuaded that eye health is desi-
rable, that having to pay for a sight
test is worth it and that wearing
glasses can even be glamorous.

Today’s lenses are easier to wear

A clear view
of contacts

F ive hundred yeais after
Leonardo da Vina de-
scribed a way of correcting
vision by using a water-contain-
ing shell, and a hundred yeais
after the first blown- glass contact
lens was made in Germany,
contact lenses have finally oome
of age.

Rapid advances in materials

and manufacturing techniques
over the past 20 years have made
contact lenses easier to wear. The
old. hard lenses, often time-
consuming to fit and difficult to
get used to. have largely been
replaced by thin, comfortable
soft lenses and gas-permeable
hard lenses.

By allowing eyes to breathe
more easily, the latest lenses have
higher safety levels, are easier to
adapt to and are suitable for a
wider range of
people, including
those who use bifo-
cals or who have
the eye defect,
astigmatism.

Today there are
more than two
million contact-
lens wearers in the
UK in an industry
estimated last year
to be worth
around E240 mil-
lion, split equally
between lenses and solutions.
Most are still chosen for cosmetic
reasons, although many sports
players prefer them as they can
be worn for games such as
tennis, soccer, rugby, cricket and
skiing (on water or snow).
Specialised contact lenses may
also be supplied to those who
have had cataract surgery.

Generally designed for day-
time use. there are lenses intend-
ed for continuous wear, but these
appear to carry greater risks of
infection and still arouse profes-
sional controversy. All lenses
should be disinfected daily and
the special solutions cost from £3
to £15 for a month's supply,
depending on the type of lens.

Hard lenses, costing £100 to
£200, are of non-absorbing rigid
plastic which is easy to clean and
disinfect. They are preferred by

many optical practitioners to soft
lenses as they lead to fewer
incidents of infection.

Soft lenses, at about the same
price, are generally more com-
fortable to wear but because they
are absorbent the deansing
solutions can build up in them
and cause eye irritations. One
answer has been to replace them
more regularly, and many are
now changed on a monthly or
fortnightly basis. These so-called
disposable lenses, or planned
replacement lenses, cost from
about £10 a month.

If costs could be reduced
further, the daily disposable lens
could be the next step forward,
although Simon Fraser, of
Pilkingion. a leading manufac-
turer. believes that the technol-
ogy is still some way off.

Toric lenses
(£150 to £300) are
designed for
people who hare
astigmatism or
who hare a poor
supply of tears — a
problem which
can limit the
length of time that
lenses can be
worn. Bifocal
lenses (E200 to
£400) are consid-
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tiy to be one of the growth areas
in contact lenses. After 20 years
of development, efforts are still
being made to refine them and
many wearers of bifocal specta-
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switch. Because these lenses are
more complex, they generally
require more consultations to
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Contact lenses may be fitted
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gists (eye-disease specialists),
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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1992

A rosier tint

to business in

the high street

After years of decline, deregulation and improvements
in design have brought variety to the customer and
fresh hope to the industry. Felicity Bates reports

W hen the National
Health Service
was founded in
1948 its objective
of providing free eye examina-
tions and inexpensive glasses
for all was universally lauded.
Howerer, this policy was to
prove Litde short of disastrous
for the British frame and lens
industries.

As the nation's largest buyer
of glasses, the NHS was able
to pare prices to the minimum
and reduce profit margins to
the unwarkably low. Conse-
quently. with tittie capital
available for investment in
research and development or
re-tooling, both frame making
and lens manufacturing went
into decline.

The availability of free or
subsidised glasses also shaped
the attitudes of the British
public They became so used to
choosing frames from a small,
uninspiring selection that they
came to regard glasses as
purely utilitarian prostheses
hardly worth a decent pur-
chase price.

At the same time, Europe-
ans had come to regard glasses
as style accessories worth pay-
ing for. Continental frame
makers, who saw themselves
as designers as well as techni-
cians. responded by producing
frames that sold on their
fashion merit. During the
Fifties they mounted aggres-
sive export campaigns to Brit-
ain. These imports were later
joined by budget frames from
South East Asia and more
recently hy more up-market
Japanese creations.

The domestic producers'
market share fell stead fly. and
now accounts for only 20 per
cent of frames sold in the UK-
However. local manufacturers
are fighting back and at
present export 55 per cent of
their production.

Lack of financial incentive
also caused a decline in do-
mestic fens production. Virtu-
ally all lenses are now
imported, although they are
generally ground to specifica-
tion in local prescription
houses.

Britain differs from Europe
in the way these frames and
lenses are sold. Here, eyes are
examined and glasses fitted in
the same retail environment
These optical outlets were orig-
inally individually owned and
operated, and a group such as
Doliond & Aitchison has a
history dating back to the 1 8th
century.

Until 1984 registered opti-
cians had a virtual monopoly

ESTABLISHED in 1984 by
Doug and Mary Perkins.
Specsavers is the largest and
fastest growing optical fran-
chise group in Britain and the
Irish Republic. The company
has 200 outlets, which repre-
sents half of all optical fran-
chises. but expects 400 by the
end of 1993. It hopes to be the
largest optical group in Brit-
ain by 2000.

Turnover is £100 million
and is increasing annually fay
25 per cent Success is based

in dispensing glasses. Howev-
er. deregulation and the relax-
ation of advertising restric-
tions have produced radical
changes. Simple ready-to-
wear reading gl assessor ex-
ample, can now be bought at a
wide range of outlets, though
their prescription range is
limited and there is still a
preference for a full eye exami-
nation when considering vi-
sion help.

The last five years have also
seen the growth of large
multiples such as Special eyes
and franchises like Specsavers.
With their capacity to bulk-buy
and finish lenses in-house,
these chains have posed a
major threat to traditional
optical practices.

One area of optics that has
enjoyed continuous growth
since the war is contact lens
manufacturing. Despite the
fact that only 6 per cent (more
than 2 million) of people
needing visual correction wear

on an innovative approach to
retailing. Open plan, mir-
rored showrooms are filled
with a wide choice of frames
at reasonable prices and with
a workshop incorporated in
each store rapid service is
guaranteed.

Each practice is jointly
owned by the optician and
Guernsey-based Specsavers,
who offer support and train-
ing, It is an economical and
practical route to the High
Street.

FRANCHISE GROWTH

Individual attention: an Italian specialist working by hand on lens moulds

contacts, sales in 1991 were
2.9 million single lenses com-
pared with 803.000 in 1 982.

Although some of the major
producers such as Ciba Vision
are multinationals, most of
their contact lenses are made
in Britain and over 40 per cent
are exported Sales have been
helped by the many advances
made since the general accep-
tance of hard lenses in the
Fifties. Consumers now enjoy
a wide choice of gas perme-
able. soft, permanent dispos-
able, bifocal and tinted lenses.

Many people are also ask-
ing for special glasses or
contacts for specific tasks such
as sports, operating VDUs and
driving.

Even though price still re-
mains the main purchasing
consideration, consumers are
also becoming conscious of the
array of stylish frames avail-
able and the large variety of
lenses, such as super slim
high-index glass, lightweight
plastics, van locals and special
tints.

Finally, as half the glasses
are worn by people over 55. a
large percentage of our ageing
baby boomers will be buying
them in the future.

• The author is editor of Vision
Now

•

SPECTACLE
AND CONTACT LENS
WEAR BY ADULTS IN THE UK

(% of wearers) 1990

Spectacles Contact lenses

Women Women

AGE GROUPS

Spectacles Contact lenses

35-44 25-34

Source: ICC Business Ratios Ud

Regular eye tests are important

Can you stiii^

^ small print?

T hey may deny the truth
to themselves for years
— but sooner or later
there comes a point when
many people in their forties
realise that they cant read
small print any more. They
need an eye test
As they venture hesitantly
towards the opticians they will
be joining millions of others
who haw had what is not only
a thorough but also a thor-
oughly regulated, painless
examination.

According to surveys by the
Optical Information Council,
a non-profit-making body
partly funded by the industry,
out of 1 .000 school-age child-
ren, a fifth were found to have
a sight defect that had appar-
ently gone undetected; and out
of 22,000 drivers in Britain, a
third had some visual defect,
often unsuspected.

The free NHS eye test was
abolished in April 1 989 for all
but specified categories of
people: those aged under 16
(under 1 9 if in full-time educa-
tion); those on low incomes;
those with glaucoma, and
people over 40 where there is a
family history with glaucoma;
blind or partially sighted
people; and those with diabe-
tes. Now, the cost of a test is set
by individual opticians, and
can range from nothing to £18
or more.

The surge of people rushing
to beat the April 1989 dead-
line distorts comparisons with
1 988-89 figures, but the Fed-
eration of Ophthalmic & Dis-
pensing Opticians (FODO)
suggests that the following
year there was a 37 per cent
drop in sight tests. Had the
upwards trend since 1983
continued — as might have
been expected from increased
public awareness of health
issues and a gradually aging
population — up to two mil-
lion more people today might
be having tests than are doing
so. This could change from
next January, when new EC
regulations will force employ-
ers to offer sight tests to VDU
users.

FODO’s data suggests that
39 per cent of tests arc still
carried out free under the
NHS, with the rest paid
privately. Professional advice
is that eyes should be checked
every two years and children to
have an examination by the
age of three.

Normal examination by an
ophthalmic optician, or op-
tometrist. takes aboul half an
hour. As well as near and
distance vision the optician
will check for astigmatism or
squint, the way the eyes work
together, colour perception
and the field of vision.

A spects of general health
can also be detected
through eye examina-
tion. which can reveal condi-
tions such as raised blood
pressure and diabetes. Statu-
tory rules set out by the
General Optical Council
(GOC). the profession’s regu-
latory body, require an optom-
etrist to refer the patient to a
doctor if signs of disease are
detected. “If he saw glaucoma
but failed to refer, that would
be in breach of a GOC rule,
which is a disciplinary of-
fence." Richard Wilshin. the
coundTs registrar, says.

Even failure to observe glau-
coma would still be a disciplin-
ary offence, either because he
did not cany out an ophthal-
mosoopy. which the law re-
quires. or perhaps because he
missed the condition during
the intra-ocular examination.

After the sight test patients
must be issued with a prescrip-
tion or, if none is necessary, a
statement to that effect They
must be told whether the
prescription — valid for two
years — has changed since the
previous test and informed if
they are being referred to a
doctor or hospital They need
not buy spectacles from the
optician who examines diem
but are entitled to have die
prescription made up else-
where. from a dispensing opti-
cian, for example.

Pat Blair

The twain are starting to meet

OPTOMETRISTS test visual
acuity and prescribe corrective
lenses. Ophthalmologists,
who are medically qualified,
specialise in the diagnosis and
treatment of eye diseases. And
the two professions are com-
ing closer together.

Optometrists are discussing
with the other “eye" profes-
sions and with the health
department the possibility of
being involved in the monitor-
ing of common eye diseases
such as glaucoma, and oph-

Optometrists and ophthalmologists, two separate
disciplines, are increasingly willing to share tasks

lhalmic surgeons are now
performing laser surgery to
correct myopia (short-sighted-
ness). the most common
refractive error dealt with by
optometrists.

Optometrists are taught
how to spot eye disease and if
they do so during an eye test
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doctor. But moves are afoot,
says Professor Geoff Wood-
ward, professor of optometry
and visual science at London's
City University, to let the
optometrist monitor the pro-
gress of treatment

Patients diagnosed as hav-
ing an eye problem such as
glaucoma may. after treat-
menu be referred back to an
optometrist
under a newly
agreed protocol.

The system is al-
ready being used
locally and the
hope is thar even-
tually national
protocols will en-
able the two pro-
fessions to co-op-
erate in this way.

The optometrist
would be a
“measurer”. Pro-
fessor Woodward
says. “Glaucoma
is a disease where
the pressure in
the eye is raised and presses on
rhe retinal blood supply,” he
says. "Gradually, the retina is
damaged from the periphery
inwards.

"The patient is normally
diagnosed on three features,
lasses in the visual field, in-
creases in visual intraocular
pressure and changes in
appearance of the optic disc,
the area where the optic nerve
comes into the eye.”

Glaucoma is never cured.

only controlled. Professor
Woodward says. Optometrists
can monitor whether the con-
trol measures are working. He
adds: "Hospital visits are
expensive, so this kind of
monitoring locally could be
more cost-effident."

As optometrists edge to-
wards more involvement in
the medical side of eye treat-

Professor John Marshall of St Thomas’ Hospital

menu so ophthalmologists are
using surgical techniques to
correct refractive errors more
often dealt with by spectacles
and contact lenses. One of the
most advanced techniques,
known as laser photo refractive
keratectomy (PRKl. uses a
laser to remove superficial
layers of tissue from the
cornea.

Myopia, in which near vi-
sion is better than distant,
occurs when either the front

surface of the eye. the cornea,
is too highly curved, or the eye
is too long, or both.

The myopic eyeball is
shaped like a rugby ball so the
rays of light are brought to
focus short of the retina
Flattening die front surface
corrects the condition.

Opthalmologists say that
the laser acts as a pair of
“photon scissors', chopping
the bonds between the mole-
cules that make up the tissue.
“You don't touch the tissue,"
says John Marshall, the Frost
Professor of Oph-
thalmology at St
Thomas’. Lon-
don. “You send a
beam of invisible
radiation on to it
and suddenly a
depression will
appear in the
surface."

The technique
is quite different
from radial kerat-
otomy. where
deep radial cuts
are made in the
cornea so that the
resultant weaken-
ing will lead to a
flattening of the cornea. The
curs are made to a depth of 90
to 95 per cent of comeal
thickness. The laser method
removes no more than 5 to 1 0
per cent of corneal thickness.

The milder the patient’s
myopia. Professor Marshall
says, the more predictable the
outcome of -PRK and die
higher the probability of nor-
mal. unaided vision.

Malcolm Brown

Glasses are now available to suit eveiy individual need

W hen someone talks
about needing glass-
es, what they really
mean is that they need lenses
but which lens? Spectacle-
wearers today have an almost
endless variety of options,
but unlike their European
counterparts, the British seem
either not to know of the
choices available or are too
conservative to take advantage
of them, Pat Blair writes.

As one of the leading lens
and frame manufacturers In
this county, the Munich-based
firm of Rodenstock. says: “The
possibilities for correcting the
vision defects of die human
eye are as varied as the defects
themselves."

For those who merely need
magnification for otherwise
healthy eyes, ready-made
reading glasses are widely
available, not only from opti-
cian's premises. One need
only try them on and keep
testing different strengths un-
til the most suitable pair is
found. Ready-made models
can cost less than £10, but
make no accommodation for
differences between the right
and left eye (although with
minor differences that is un-
likely t° matter).

Figures From the British
Ophthalmic Lens Mamifac-
tu rers and Distributors' Associ-
ation (BOLMADA) show that
currently 80 per cent of the
nine million pairs of lenses
bought in this country arc
plastic, possibly because lenses
made of plastic materials arc
generally lighter in weight
than optical glass.

Customers arc sometimes
puzzled that one optician can
supply their prescription
tades with an hour or so.

Seeing

clearly,

looking

good

another may take a week or
two. Few if any opticians in
this country still make lenses
on their premises. Many do,
however, keep a stock of par-
tially prepared lenses to refine
on the spot to individual
prescriptions, which is why
they can supply at speed
Sophistication is the other end
of the market

C omplicated prescrip-
tions and those with
“bespoke" refinements
— such as additional hardened
surfacing or special tints —
take longer to make. In such
cases prescriptions are sent
to companies, such as Roden-

stock. Pilkington or one of the
smaller manufacturers. Al-
though they have computer-
aided technology, a sur-
prising amount of handwork
is employed.

Recent advances in tech-
nology mean that lenses need
not make the wearer appear to
be looking through the bottom
of a bottle. Even highly com-
plicated lenses — glass or
plastic — have become slim-
mer. flatter and lighter, giving
less distortion at the edges
for die wearer as well as be-
ing more comfortable and
cosmetically attractive.

Most lenses can be sup-
plied with a variety of surfaces
to meet individual require-
ments: tints to blend with
frames, additional scratch-re-
sistant surfaces for careless
users, anti-glare or photo-
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Choose any shades you like

Before reaching for a pair of sunglasses, make sure they combine
, eye protection with fashion, writes Pat Blair

W hether it is Ray Ban or
Polaroid. Boots or Fos-
ter. Grant. Silhouette or
Shades, sunglasses are
fashionable business. Glossy maga-
zines. films and television have aQ
helped promote a stylish approach to
the way we protea our eyes from the
dangers of harsh sunlight
There are hundreds of styles
to choose from at all prices.
Far eye protection alone, how-
ever. one need pay as little as £10 to
buy sunglasses that win health care
approval.

If lenses are coloured hut offer no
protection against ultraviolet light,
they are likely to be more damaging
than wearing no glasses at all, as they
will confuse the eye's natural
response.

The danger is simple. The pupil-
responds to yellow light If you put a
dark tint in front of your eye, it
reduces the amount of yellow light
reaching it Therefore the pupil opens
up. If you do not then guard against
the harmful, yet invisible, UV light
coming through, you risk eye
damage.

Sunglasses, whether they come
with plastic or glass lenses, may
conform to the 1987 British Stan-
dard BS2724. which divides them
into several categories. The three
main types are: cosmetic purpose,
general purpose and special purpose.
As such, they should give a distortion-
free view of the world — no bends,
bubbles, blips or visible scratches —
and the lenses should be impact
resistant

All sunglasses that daira to
meet the standard should offer pro-
tection from the UV rays of die sun.
However, they vary in the amount of
Hght, or glare, that they la through to
the eyes. Those designed for cosmetic
or fashion purposes are merely lightly
tinted lenses. These are not intended
to be used against significant
sunlight

General purpose sunglasses should
protect the eyes when the sunlight is
intense — for example in snow or on

water, where glare can be reflected, or
at high altitudes. Snow can reflea
SS per cent of UV rays, while water
may reflea between 5 and 10 per
cent of UV rays. Sand 8 per cent of
UV. Gradient lenses, with the tint
gradually paling from top to bottom,
are generally not intended for such
conditions:

Those who wear prescription spec-
tacles need not resort only to “dip-
on” covers. Sunglasses can be made
up by an optidan to an individual
prescription in varying colours and in
plastic or glass lenses. Sadly, many
opticians seem rarely to suggest the
possibilities, and it is often left to the -
customer to ask.

The tint should not distort natural
colour vision, for example when
looking at traffic lights. Photo-
chromatic lenses, which darken in
bright light and pale a$ain in
the shade, may be convenient for
popping in from garden to house

and back Although they ad rapidly,
however, they do not read to
changed conditions as quickly as the
human eye.

Light reflected from many direc-
tions — such as from disturbed water
— can be reduced by polarising
lenses: This introduces a filter
that can cut dazzle, an attribute
favoured by those driving in bright
sunlight

Many people buy non-prescription
sunglasses in department stores and
shops where there may be no profes-
sional advice on hand. However, a
good deal can often be learned from
the information on labels attached to
the glasses.

A EH. 50 pair of Samco glasses
(style I4C145) bought from a John
Lewis store, for example, carried the
following information. They have
CR39 lenses, which are made from a
scratch-resistant optical plastic mate-
rial, CR39; they will “eliminate all

of the sun's harmful rays with 100
per cent ultraviolet protection": they
are designed to reduce sun glare
conforming to BS2724: 1987 gen-
eral purpose: light transmission
is 8-29 per cent they are refraction
dass 1 — that is, they have no
magnification properties and a line
viewed through them should not
appear distorted — and are suitable
for all-day wear. They are said to be
robust and “suitable for active leisure
and sport". They also cany the
warning appropriate to all sunglasses
— they are not to be used to view the
sun directly.

“There are quite a lot of things the
public can do if they take a little care
to look at the swing ticket first — and
only secondly at the style.” says Dr
Nizar HarjL who is director of
personnel and professional services at
Boots Opticians.

Although unlabelled sunglasses
may be suitable, it is sensible if no
professional advice is to hand and no
detailed label is provided, to opt for
a different pair, carrying the data
upon which a more informed choice
can be made.

Wearing spectacles need not be a handicap and can be a fashion accessory, Mary-Rose Cooney writes

How getting
framed can
change your
whole image

T he optical frame indus-
try is determined to
convey the -'theSsage
that eyewear is essentially fash-
ion and therefore fun and that
everyone who wears glasses
should have more than one
pair to ring the changes, not
just in case of breakages.

. For historic reasons, wear-
ing glasses has been consid-
ered as thrilling as wearing
orthopaedic shoes. To any-
body brought up with the
National Health Service atti-
tude towards spectacles, the
idea of glasses as fashion
accessories has been viewed
with great suspicion and al-
most puritan unease.

Some opticians still think
that being able to see property
is quite enough. This aspect is
vital, but talon g pleasure in
looking good in glasses is not
mere vanity but a psychologi-
cal necessity and shows a
positive attitude that should be
encouraged.

Fashion designers have de-
< veloped collections of eyewear
which range from the simple
and stylish to the romantic,
dramatic and simply weird.
Names like Gucci, Gianfranco
Ferre, Valentina Ralph
Lauren. Dior, Kenzo, Versace
and Gaultier have produced

Mr Mottram: “before” . . .

styles which have had an
influence on the concept of
spectacles as fashion and on
the kind of designs available in
the medium and budget price
ranges.

Most good opticians keep a
reasonable cross section of
frames but can be afraid of
trying new styles and materi-
als (titanium is wonderfully
light and strong but quite
expensive), so it is up to
consumers to take up the
cudgel and make some de-
mands if they want to see the
latest from the new. younger
looking Gucd collection or the
more bold and innovative
Gianfranco Ferre.

Sortie opticians and optical
assistants are developing real

skills in advising on good
colour and shape in a frame as
wdL of course, as suitability for
particular lens requirements,
comfort and fit. But advice
and interest is still sporadic,
especially if
the optidan
cannot bring
himself to
think of his
“patients" be-
coming his
“customers”
when they
need to buy lenses, frames and
services.

Getting to grips with image
is very much the province of
colour and style consultants, a
growth industry of the last few
years, and some of these

include eyewear in their over-
all advice.

Color Me Beautiful, one of
the biggest style companies,
with consultants throughout
the country, has a course
designed to
train its con-
sultants and
optical staff in
the prindples
of colour, face
shape and life-
style. the basic
concepts for
choosing frames.

Christine Russo from
London liked to wear frames
with a bit of originality, but
wore pale coloured plastics
that literally swamped her.
She was persuaded to wear

. . . and “after” in metal

gold metal or a metal and
plastic combination (both by
Gucd) and the effect was a
good deal more harmonious
though equally striking.

This is where considering
personality and lifestyle is so
important Ms Russo would
never have been happy with
frames that were pretending
■not to be there.

Jim Mottram from Tyne-
side wanted a total remake so
off came his moustache and
on went a pair of the currently
popular “retro” metal frames
(Ralph Lauren), which were
much more appropriate for his
image than the original,
though colourful, plastic
frames. The “before" and
"after" pictures printed here

show the remarkable, change
to his look”.

A small wardrobe of frames
is the next requirement As a
middle aged judge said quite
reasonably: “When I am in
court 1 like to wear suitably
solemn glasses, but when I'm
on the golf course or dining
out I want to wear quite
different frames". In other
words you don't normally
wear Wellington boots to the
opera.

Celebrities can provide ex-
cellent examples of how to
wear glasses, or not as the case
may be. Sylvester Stallone has
one particular pair of glasses
he seems to be devoted to, but
Elton John is very rarely seen
in the same pair twice. Sophia
Loren likes to change styles
and has even gone as for as
designing her own collection.

There is now an award in
the UK. “Spectacle Wearer of
the Year", sponsored by Lam-
bert Optical, which chooses
celebrities considered to have
done the most for the image of
spectacles during the year. The
most recent winners were Glo-
ria Hunniford and James
Whale, followed by Cliff Rich-
ard and Lorraine Kelly.

• The auihoris creative director of
Lambert Optical

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Starting eye
care early

Children’s sight can now
be objectively assessed

fTlhe great majority of

I children have no

X kind of eye test until
they are four, yet identifying
and treating defective eye-
sight at an early age can
be very important Long-
sighted infants whose eyes
are not corrected are now
known to be at greater risk
than others of developing
more serious conditions
such as strabismus (squint)
or amblyopia “buy eye".
writes Malcolm Brown.

Amblyopia can usually' be
corrected if diagnosed early
enough, and squints can be
straightened using specta-
cles, exercises or surgery.
Bui ir is better if they do not
occur in the first place.
Studies at Cambridge Uni-
versity's visual development
unit have shown that in-
fants given spectacles to deal
with severe longsightedness
are much less likely than
others to develop a squint or
a lazy eye.

Dr Janette Atkinson, co-
director of the Cambridge
team, says that 70 per cent
of four-year-olds who did
not wear spectacles after
being diagnosed in infancy
as severely longsighted went
on to develop strabismus or
amblyopia. By contrast, of
children
with similar
degrees of
longsight-
edness who
did wear
spectacles,
only 25 per
cent went
on to devel-
op more se-
rious sight problems.

One reason why many
very young children are not
taken to the optometrist is
the common but mistaken
belief that a child must be
able to speak and read
before an eye examination.
However, it is possible to
use wholly objective tests, in
which no response from the
child is required. An oph-
thalmoscope can be used to
examine the interior of the
eye to see whether it is :
healthy, and a retinoscqpe
fan instrument which. re-
flects a beam of light from a
mirror into the eye) can be
used to measure refractive
error.

The Cambridge visual
development unit, which
screens large numbers of
children, uses a more
sophisticated technique,
photorefraction. Flash pho-
tographs are taken of the
subject, and the results are
displayed on a video screen.
A computer is then used to
analyse the information the
photographs display.

The researchers use the
Cambridge video-refractor
for their work. A fibre optic
carries a tiny flash along the
middle of die instrument's
camera lens. The video

A baby’s eyes
can be tested
before it has
learnt to speak

camera takes three photo-
graphs. The first focuses on
the baby’s eyes so that the
pupil size can be deter-
mined. In the second and
third photographs, the cam-
era is deliberately de-
focused. This produces what
are called “blur images".
The size of the image indi-
cates the refractive state of
the eye.

if the baby has focused on
the camera, the light that
bounces off its eye wfll
return along the same path,
producing a very small spot
of light on (he video moni-
tor. If the baby has focused a
long way behind or in front
of the camera, because it is
long or shortsighted, the
images on the video will be
large, foim and diffuse.

One of the benefits of the
video-refractor, says Shirley
Anker, the senior orthoptist
on the team, is that one can
see what both eyes are doing
simultaneously. “You're not
doing it with one eye at a
time. You're looking at what
the child is doing in its
natural state.”

When the technique was
first used, the Cambridge
group employed the stan-
dard technique of putting
drops in the infant's eyes to

dilate the

pupils and
relax the fo-
cusing. But
they have
now found
a way to car-
ry out the
screening

without

drops.

which should speed up the
process.

Professor John Barbur,
professor of optics and vis-
ual science at London's City
University, is now using a
technique which measures
so-called “pupil response".
What scientists have real-
ised In the past few years is
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med not only to the brightness
of the stimulus (if you shine
a bright light the pupil con-
stricts)., but also to how
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what ' sigrial •• is getting
through to the brain, in
terms of both white light
and different colours. The
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Wellcome to use its tech-
nique on the new-born.

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red cameras to monitor
what is happening to the
diameter of the pupil when
the subject is subjected to
different stimuli. "If we can
just measure these respons-
es and assess how they
develop in new bom child-
ren," says Professor Barbur,
"we will have an objective
measure of how colour dis-
crimination and visual acu-
ity develop at the level of the
brain. It’s very attractive
because it's non-invasive."

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28 SPORT

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1992

SPORT FOR THE DISABLED

Paralympic
events are
considered
for Atlanta

By Aux Ramsay

JUST six months ago, the two
international governing bod-
ies of able-bodied and dis-
abled Olympic sport — the
International Olympic Com-
mittee (IOC) and the Interna-
tional Paralympic Committee
(I PC) — were at loggerheads
over the paralympic logo.
Now. after the success of the
Paralympics in Barcelona, the
two presidents, Juan Antonio
Samaranch, of the IOC and
Bob Stead ward, of the 1 PC
are talking about including
disabled events in the 1996
Olympics as lull medal sports.

The resolution of die logo
issue has brought down the
barriers to communication.
The dispute had been wheth-
er die five parafympic tear-
drops. arranged in the same
formation and in the same
colours, looked too much like
the Olympic rings and would
cause confusion in the busi-
ness of marketing and adver-
tising. The IPC has agreed to
back down and change its
trademark to three teardrops.

Samaranch, a native of Bar-
celona. was present at the
Paralympics and was im-
pressed by the standard set by
the athletes and the numbers
of spectators who came to
cheer every Spanish success.

“These games have had an
impact on the IOC."
S read ward said. “Close to one-
and-a-half million people par-
ticipated and that opens up
media, marketing and spons-
orship possibilities. The
paralympics are a viable
proposition."

What also seems to have
impressed Samaranch is the
role of ONCE, an organis-
ation primarily for the blind
which also deals with sport for
all disabled groups in Spain.
ONCE, originally funded by

the state lottery, has grown
into one of Europe's richest
most powerful companies.

“They have a terrific
amount of influence and they
have had a positive influence
on Samaranch." Stead ward
said. “I've had meetings with
ONCE to arrange meetings
between them and the IPC to
see whether they can be in-
volved in the IPC in future.”

The IPC had submitted a
proposal to the IOC to have
four medal sports included in
the Atlanta Games, but now
there is talk of that being
increased to nine. The Atlanta
Olympic organising commit-
tee has already signed the
contract for the 1996 Games,
in which there is no mention
of disabled sport but that
seems to be a formality that
could easily be sidestepped.

“With the influence of the
IOC and my original discus-
sions we're going for inclusion
in Atlanta.” Stead ward said.
“They were fully agreeable to
include disabled events from
the very beginning so it’s come
as no surprise to them.”

What is a surprise is the
change in status of the IPC
From being a group regarded
with suspicion by the IOC.
they are now appearing to be
welcomed with open arms.
The integration of disabled
sport into the Olympics is no
longer just a pipe dream but
actually in the pipeline.

However, the Paralympics
in 1992 are not over yet
Yesterday, the first games for
people with learning difficul-
ties to be held under file
paralympic banner opened in
Madrid. The aim is to prove to
Steadward that the organising
bodies of sport for the mentally
handicapped deserve to be-
come full members of die IPC.

PARALYMPICS DETAILS

MEDALS TABLE

G S B TB
United Stales 76 52 48 ire

Germany 61 SO 60 171

Gieat Brian 40 47 41 128

fiance 36 36 33 105

Spain 34 31 42 107

Canada 26 21 28 75

AusiraSa 34 27 23 76

Utufied Team 17 14 15 46

Holland 13 15 11 39

British medal wimara
GOLD

ATHLETICS; Men; lOOmTWJ: A Hod
1.500m C7. 8; J NefrercoO: 1.500m 1
N Thatcher 5.000m B1: R Matthews:
Marathon S Brum; Marathon B3: M
Fame*, shat C3. 4: M Watar Shot
THW5: T Hoptans; Javein CS: P
VVrfams Woman: 100m C5, 6: C trines:
lOOmTWS: 7 Grey: atom TW3. T Grey.
JOOm C7. 8: E Crntoj. 400m TW3: T
Gray: 500m TV/3: T Gray.

SWIMMING: Man: 100m BUy SIO: □
Motet on. 50m Bfafrofce S2: P null: 50m
Bkstralva S3: T Hunter. 100m Bkstroke
BZ C Holmes: 200m Bkstroke B2: C
Homes. 100m Bratrofce SB8: 1 Matthew:
50m Fstyte St P Hull, 50m Fstyfe S5:

B?~ C notm3:

W McQueen. 50m F:

100m F

B2-.

Dm F style S2: P^5: 100m Fstyfe
: C Holmes. 400m F style S10: □
Mono on. 400m F'styto B2: C Holmes;
200m Med SMlO: P Natoto: 200m Med
B2: C Holmes Women: 100m Bkstroke
SIO: S Baity. 100m Bkstroke B1: J
Bon on. 50m Brstroke SB2: T Flood. 50m
FetyteSaCBteop. 50m Fstyte Bi:J
Button. 200m Med SMUT. S Baity:
200m Med B1: J Bum
JUDO: Men. Up to 71kg: S Jackson
SHOOTING: Women: Air Rffie SWg MX
SHU: D Coates 487 2
TABLE TUNIS’ Men's Team, 3.
SILVER

ATHLETICS: Men: 100m C5: P Hughes'.
100m TS4: N Coutas; 200m T&t: N
CauHaa. 400m TS4: N Cou to: 600m
81: R Matthews. 5.000m B3: M Fame*.
4 « 100m Wlchtfr W, TW3. 4; 4 % 100m
Open: 4* 400m Open: Shot Ait 83: J
Ware. Shot THWB: I Hayden. Discus
THW5: T Hopfcns. Javelin C5: S GronteH:
Javelin THW8: l Hayden. Qub C6: K
Gardner Women: 100m C7. 8: E Cnaca;
rtxim C7, 8: E CntOB. 200 m B1; T

rtnton; 400m 81; T Hinton; 400m B3: S
Baton.

SWIMMING: Men: 100m Bfy B1.2: T
Reddish; 100m B’By B3: 1 Sharpe: 50m
Bkstroke S3: J Anderson: 100m
BfcstrokeSIOc M Woods: 100 m Brstroke
SBK P Noble. 50m Fatyte 82: J
Anderson: 100m Fstyte S3: J Anderson;
100m Fstyle S3: T Hunter, 400m Fstyle
SI OrP Noble: 150m Med SMJrKCakns:
400m Med Bi. Z C Hohies. women:
lOOmB'ftyBI; JBurfon. 100m Bkstroke
S9: C Bishop; 100m Brstroke S83: M
McOeny; 50m Fstyte ST: B Gul; 400m
Fstyle SIO: S Batey; 400m Fstyle BI: J
Burton; *x 100m Fstyle S7-10;
4 x 100m Fstyle Open; 4 x 100m Med
S7: 4 x loom Med Open.
POWERLIFTING: Up to 90kg; N Sister
TABLE TENNIS: Men's: hxSvUud, 3: N
Robinson
BRONZE

ATHLETICS: Merc 100m TW3: C HaF
lam: 400m TS2: S Brave. 800m C7, 8: J
NetfwreoC; 800m 82: N Thatcher
1 ,500m BI: R Matthews: 1.500m B3: A
Hamilton: Shot THW7: E GuW; Otecus
THWB; K Baker Javetei 07: K ChuchH;
JaveBn THIA7: 0 RowfaW: Long Jump
BI: R Latham: Triple Bi: R Latham,
women: 100m 8l:THWoh: lOOmBZS
BoOon; 200m B3: S Bolton; Shot THW7;
EE am

SWIMMING: Men: 100m BUy SIO: P
Noble; 50m Bkstroke S2: A McGregor;
50m Fstyte S2: A McGregor 50m
Fstyte S3: T Hirter 100m Fstyte S2: A
100m Fstyte SIO: 0 Mrae-
fc B£ T Redash.

Fstyle

■1 x 50m Fstyte Si-6: Women: 100m
Bkstroke SIO: D Ban; 200m Bkstroke
BI .2: T Jones: 50m Fstyte S3.4: T Rood.
100m Fstyte S7: B Gut; 100m Fstyte
SIO: S Biaey. 400m Fsryte BI: M-A
Low; 200m Med Bi: l Bytes. 400m Med
Open: T Jones: 4 xSOmMecfity Si-6.
JUDO: Man,Upto6Bkg:MMkjrch
SHOOTING: Men: Ah Rifle SWg SHI: R
Cooper At RHle 3x40 Mxd Sh4: K J
Hyde: English Match Mxd SHI-3 J
Campbell

TABLE TENNIS: Intfividual men, 4: A
Chan Men's Teem. 6.

FENCING: Men’s Team Sabre. 2. 3, 4.
WBGHTUFTTNG: Up to 52kg: A Peddle

Winter is
poised to
reach new
heights

From David Powell
ATHLETICS CORRESPONDENT
IN SEOUL

WHEN Nefl Winter was ten.
be wrote to Sergey Bubka but
received no reply. Eight years
later, and now Britain’s best
pofe-va utter, Winter is work-
ing towards the day when
Bubka will be unable to
ignore him. His yearly
progress is advancing with
Bubka4£ke pace.

Thanks to Winter; die gap
between British vaulting and
world doss may soon no
longer be poles apart His
father-coach. Ken Winter,
predicts that next season,
before bis son's teenage years
are out he will have the
British record, which has
survived for 1 1 years.

Like Bubka, Winter had
the advantage of starting
young, at the age of ten. Until
he was 15. he matched the
Ukrainian’s best at each
birthday: 4.40 metres at 14,
4.80 at 15. At 1 6 Winter was
ahead, 5-20 to Bubka’s 5.10
at the same age, but a bade
injury last year spoiled the
comparison, last month,
however. Winter all but re-
joined Bubka’s flight path,
clearing 5.50 aU8. moving in
behind Keith Stock (5.65) and
Brian Hooper (5-59) to equal
Michael Edwards as the third
highest Briton of all-time.

Bubka deared 555 as an
IS-yeardd and tomorrow
Winter. 19 next Mart*, be-
gins the first of two competi-
tions which could see him
back on level pro gress with
the man who has won three
world tides outdoors, three
indoors, one Olympic Games
and has set 31 world records.

Winter is second in the
rankings, behind Daniel
Marti, of Spain, as the world
junior championships open
here tomorrow and straight
after he travels to Havana as
Britain’s youngest team
member for the World Cup.

In Havana, fifth or sixth
place would be mission ac-
complished for the student
from Keynsham. near Bristol
“I have not got a chance of
getting in the top three, but I
am going there for the experi-
ence.” Winter said. But of
the world jimior champion-
ships. he said: “I am in the
best form of my life at the
moment 1 hope to get a
medal” Britain has never
had one in the pole vault at
world or Olympic, junior or
senior, level “Neil is capable
of winning it” his hither said.
He finished ahead of Marti
in the under-23 European
Cup, but lost to him at a
recent international in
Horsham.

Thirty years ago Winter
Snr was a va idler of greater
enthusiasm than ability.
“Nefl is the athlete I was

Upwards and onwards: Winter aiming for the top by foDowing Bubka's example

not” he said. “I am only 5ft
8in and he is 6ft 2in — he has
die height and the speed and
is veiy athletic."

Winter’s inconsistency
worries his coach. “He is a
little bit suspect ai his open-
ing height” he said. Winter
has no-heighted in four of his
five main competitions this
season and is planning to
enter at 5.00 metres in Seoul
chanring elimination but
knowing that if he is success-
ful he will have energy in
reserve when the competition
comes down to the medal
challenge. Bubka played that
very game in the Olympics
and tost one copycat move
Winter hopes to be spared.

Seoul prepares elite

Seoul: Today's world junior
champions, tomorrow’s
Olympic medal-winners and
world record-holders. The
fourth world junior champi-
onships begin here today with
half a dozen outgoing cham-
pions having made their way
successfully in the senior
ranks (David PoweD writes).

Matthew Birir and Derartu
Tuhi became Olympic cham-
pions in Barcelona. _ Fita
Bayissa, Richard Chelimo
and Qu Yunxia took medals,
and Moses Kiptanui became
a senior world champion and

world record-holder. All had
won gold at the last junior
championships in Plovdiv two
years ago. But those who win
here should assume nothing.
Fewer titan one in five of the
100 or so who have won
junior tides have so far proved
a force at senior international
level

Britain has a team of 42.
one of the biggest Darren
Campbell (sprints). Nefl Win-
ter (pole vauli), Steve Smith
(high jump) and Paula Rad-
diffe (3.000m) are potential
winners.

Yates contemplates missing Havana

BRITAIN’S Worid Cup
team, which has lost almost
half of its first-choice athletes
for the fixture in Havana next
week, is now faring a crisis in
what was. until recently, its
most trusty distance: the
1.500 metres. Matthew Yates,
Britain's 1.500 metres choice
for the one-athiete-per-event
competition, said yesterday
that he. too, was considering
pulling out (David PoweU
writes).

Peter Elliott (injured) and
Steve Cram (unwilling) are
not available to cover for Yates
who has been struggling since

June with a viral complaint
and was unhappy with his
performance in the Edin-
burgh Princes Street mile on
Sunday, when he was fifth in
3 min 58sec. “I am still suffer-
ing with the remnants of the
illness,” he said. “1 should
really call it a day [for this
season)."

He will raise his problems
with Britain’s team manage-
ment to see if a replacement
can be found, but Kevin
McKay, the AAA champion
who was named as reserve,
will decline if asked. “I told
the selectors I would not goes

travelling reserve and I have
had a week and a half of
training," McKay said yester-
day. “For something like this
you need to know you are
running six weeks beforehand
and 1 would probably end up
embarrassing myself if I ac-
cepted it"

Yates added: “I don't want
to let Great Britain down, but
it is embarrassing running
the way I have been. I would
not be going there to get a
medal forMatt Yates, 1 would
be going to help get a cup for
Great Britain and I have not
got the confidence for it”

Should either David Robert-
son or Matthew Hibberd
excel for Britain in the worid
junior championships this
week, that may provide the
selectors with a welcome
option.

Since the team was an-
nounced three weeks ago
David Grindley. Curtis Robb,
Rob Denmark. Tom Hanlon
and Kriss Akabusi have with-
drawn and Steve Backley was
not selected because of injuiy.
At least Linford Christie is still
on the team sheet “ I am team
captain and it is my duty to be
there,” he said.

RUGBY UNION: ENGLAND B CAPTAIN VITAL TO BATH’S TITLE HOPES

Barnes remains optimistic over fitness

By David Hands, rugby correspondent

STUART Barnes, the Eng-
land B captain, is optimistic he
wil) be able to start the League
season on Saturday when
Bath open the defence of their
Courage Clubs championship
title against Harlequins at the
Recreation Ground. Barnes
has yet to play this month after
tearing a calf musde in train-
ing. but if he declares himself
fit today, it will come as great
relief to his dub.

They were encouraged by
the form shown at sand-off
half in Italy last weekly Craig
Raymond, a recruit from
Aldermastoru but Barnes’s
wellbeing is critical to their
hopes of retaining the title.
Moreover, if Barnes is to
sustain his diallenge to Rob
.Vidrew for further interna-
tional caps (both are in the
training squad for September
26-7). he needs to make his
case in time for England's
game against Canada on Oc-
tober 17.

“I was disappointed to miss
tiie first squad weekend with
England.” Barnes said yester-

day. “I have kept up my level
of work after returning from
the England B tour of New
Zealand and felt sharp and fit
so when I couldn’t make it. 1
was concerned. I’m pleased to
be part of the next squad.
Fortunately, it was a fairly
dean tear. I’ve had a huge
amount of treatment and I
was encouraged after training
this week.”

Bames: training injury

Justin Red nip. the Welsh
under-2 1 centre, has returned
to Bristol after a brief flirtation
with Newport Redrup played
30 games for Bristol last
season, but opted for the
Welsh dub during the sum-
mer. He played in the match
last weekend between the sec-
ond teams of the two dubs, but
trained two days later with
Bristol, who still hold his
registration. Since he has not
appeared for Newport in any
competition Bristol believe he
remains eligible for league
and cup rugby.

London Irish, who play
Bath on September 26. hope
players involved in Ireland's
squad training that weekend
will be given dispensation to
play the league match before
travelling to Dublin.

Last season, the dub was
disappointed to lose its inter-
national players at a crucial
period in the league pro-
gramme but is optimistic that
those named in the national
squad on Sunday wfl] remain
available.

However, because the Irish
Exiles meet Leinster at Don-
nybrook next Tuesday, ten
London Irish men face two
first division league matches
and an inter-provincial
championship match within
eight days, after which squad
training may come as tight
relief. The Exiles, who beat
Munster on their provincial
debut last weekend, have
named an unchanged XV.

□ Weffington: Alex Wyflie,
the former All Blade coach.
appears certain to roach the
senior side of Smith Africa's
Eastern Province next year.
Wyflie has been coaching the
province's B team and has
applied for the position with
the A team.

Wyflie said yesterday his
appointment would not be
confirmed until the end of
October, but he understood
the provincial union's annual
meeting had been brought
forward by a month to “set
things in place". He said the A
team’s coach had retired this
season.

*4T. ■

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RACING

Swinburn hoping
to be back for
ride on Marling

By Richard Evans. Racing Correspondent

Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.
Reid rode the Sussex Stakes
runner-up to success in his first
race as a two-year-old.

Ian Balding, trainer of Sel-
kirk, said yesterday: “We are
pleased to get a jockey who has
ridden Selkirk before. He is a
strong horse and needs hold-
ing up for one late run."

With Willie Carson on duty
at the Curragh on Saturday,
where he rides Jahafil in the
Irish St Leger. Francis
Arrowsmith is set to step in on
Lochsong. favourite for the
Ladbroke Ayr Gold Cup.

The 24 -year-old jockey
partnered the Stewards’ Cup
and Portland Handicap win-
ner to success at Newbuiy last
October but has not ridden the
much-improved sprinter this
year. Indeed, the apprentice is
still seeking his first win of the
season.

Balding, who cannot recall
having had a previous runner
in the Ayr sprint, said yester-
day. “Obviously it is taking a
bit of a chance, but Francis
gets on with the filly extremely
well and is definitely worth his
7tt> claim. He is a very good
horseman.”

A hectic weekend for the
Kingsclere trainer will see
Spinning, ridden by Coch-
rane, running in the Man
0*War Stakes at Belmont
where Adam Smith and Dear
Doctor are among his proba-
ble opponents.

WALTER Swinburn hopes to
be fit to' ride Marling in the
Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on
Saturday week after more
than three weeks on the side-
lines due to abizarre late-night
incident.

Speaking yesterday for the
first time about the effects of
being knocked to the ground
in Newmarket, he admitted
that at one time he feared his
riding career might be over.

Swuiburo suffered concus-
sion, complications with an
ear infection which affected
his balance, and underwent
another brain scan last Friday.

“I am more or less over the
concussion and I have been
doing tight exercise, walking
toad steady jogging, very
steady.

“It has not been straightfor-
ward, that is for sure. It has
not been easy, hut mere is light
at tiie end of die tunnel It is a
question of doing tile right
thing and not coming back too
early. 1 want to be 100 per cent
fit when 1 come bade and not
let anyone down.

“There was a slight infection
in the ear but that’s over. It
didn’t help things. It all came
from the blow and 1 am very,
very lucky. If it had been a bit
either way. it could have been
a lot worse. I suffered bad
bnfisng.”

The fear of never riding
again “had crossed my mind,”
he said.

“I have got good people
looking after me and it is
heading the right way. I had a
brain scan on Friday and
there was a big improvement
compared to the one taken
when I first went into hospital
and they don’t want to see me
anymore.

“1 will know myself when 1
am ready to make a come-
back. I would like to think I
will be bade next week. Obvi-
ously there is Marling in the
big race at Ascot and other
good rides.”

John Reid will replace the
suspended Ray Cochrane on
Selkirk, favourite for the

Swinburn: feared riding
career might be over

Strong raid on Curragh

DRUM Taps heads the 18
acceptors for the Jefferson
Smurfit Irish Memorial St
Leger at the Curragh on Sat-
urday but is not a certain
runner.

“No firm decision has been
made and we’re keeping our
options open." a stable
spokeman said yesterday.

If the Ascot Gold Cup
winner gets the go-ahead,
connections could find them-

selves with a jockey problem as
regular rider Frankie Dettori
is unlikely to be available.

A powerful British chall-
enge is assured as the accep-
tors indude St Leger winners
Michelozzo and Snurge, in
addition to Rock Hopper.
Mashaallah and Jahafil.
ACCEPTORS: Drun Taps. JahaN. MasH-
aafcte. Wchabczo. Rock Hopper. Shamtoo
Stea Sty, Snurge, Supreme Chotoo,
Surroafca, Vintage Crop. Bah. Brier Creek.
Motfibh, Tropfcarr. An&aia, DaMya
Ebaziya

Sandown Park

Going: good (beck str good to (km)
220 (51 M) 1. JOBE (M HRs. 5-1

Balet (M Robertc. Awll BpKe (J

Rate. 11-* tew) ALSO

7-2

BeOe Vue (7 45}. Supemettdnal: Long
EsonvSfwffieW(73Cf

KelyMacHtH). 12Sars9mil. i6See
{5th), 20 Perfect Passion (Shi. 8 ran. nk.
MuCMML 1 Kl. nk. 3W. rtt, 2W. W Haggas
a Nm market. Tote; £2.90: £1.80. £1 1CL
£1.70 DF: £830. CSF: £21 29.

250 [lm 14yd) 1. JOAAVB.IM Roberts, 4-
1 taw: Thunder's nap). 2, Sylvan (J
Watams, 33-7); 3. She's Pleased fl. Dedal
10-1). ALSO. RAN: 7 TwSran Seat*. 9
Agnes Ffamm ln fl. 9 Swraoncffite. 10
Roettity. 10 B afa n. 10 So Snug (3h). 12
Congress. 12 ttxning. 12 Sweet Jaffa
(4tf«. 14 WwaeS. ISOare Kory Lass (6th)
U ran w, shhd.ULhd. A Stewart m
NewmeriWl Tata- £3 70; £2.10, E7.70.
£320. DP £13640. CSF - £112 IS Inca*.
£1.15629

326 (im 21 7yd) i. WALMU (R Cochrane.
154): a Afmuhterama (M Roberts. 6-1); 3.
QUde Palh (M MBs, 112) ALSO RAN; 5 Jt-
Fav Aransas, 5 Jt-tav Avlce Caro (40D, 9
Sovereign Page (Eft). 10 Karamoja. 11

E l Sapper. 14 SbowgL 14 Aremel
16 Tfiemestar. 16 Fra Certray. 25
s Dancer, 100 Snappy’s Boy Josh
14 ran. Sh tte. 3L V hd. nk. C W«a at
NewnariiSL Tote: £10.40; £2.70, £2.50.
E2.10. DF: £4530 CSF: £52.99 Tricast
£254.24. TiW £57.50

355 CM 6yd) 1. OUR RTTA (A Mura. 5-1);
2. BranstonAObyTM Rotate. 11-10 tetyl
UteBma Fame (R Cochrane. 9-1). ALSO
RAN: 4 Storm Melody (4tfiJ, 8 Hgft Prtn-
ciptoe. 20 Loose Zeus law. 33 Bom To Be
I5tti). 7 ran NR- Hazy Shades. Hd.2JH.nk.
2^i. Mi P Ktelewey a NmmericeL Tote:
£5.40, C20Q, Cl£a. OF. £5.40 CSF.
£1050. 1rrtn3.Q2tec
4.30 (im
9-4 tew; ‘

Caunen,

10-1) ALSO RAN 5£ Rapid Success jeW.
4 FtBScads (584. 14 Erico*n I40i) 6 ran. 2.
sh hd. hd, 2L 7L R Hannon at Earn
Evertstah ToM: £2 SO; £160. £200. OF:
E8.70CSF; £1388. irate toj&sac.

5.00 (im 61) 1. BOLD RESOLUTION (M
Rotates. 10-1): 2. Irish St amp (S Cauttm
13-2); 3. Grave Sarencflplty (N Adams. 1 4-
h. ALSO nw 5 tew Mas rin Up (4th). 1 1-2
Greek Cham 7 Quadrirams. 8 Construe-
ttvisL 8 Indan Decision (Sri)). 14 Mahraten.
14 Trojan Lanor. 14 Top tabte. 20 Lite
Akua 25Jlnga. 25 BUshra Bela {3H). 33
CaAcon 15 ran. 2L II, VL 1L hd. CCyzsr at
Horaham Tote EHOJO; £300. £430.
£5.40. OF- £44 70 CSF. £7289. Tricast
£85535. Trio: £21220 3mm 4.73sac
6 JO om If) 1. MARRJ5 (Pa Eddery. 13-2):
2. Akiemey Prince (A Murao, 5-1); 1 Aral
Rente (FNarton.3-1 law). ALSO RAN: 11-

50 Arogan Fool 50 Mres Ffcboos 12 ran.
11 3)41. 2H. a. nk. B HU a Isnbaun.
Tote; £880. £2.60 £2.10. £150 DF
£23 50 CSF: £36.10, TAcast 1 £105 6? Imte
57 74S9C

Jackpot not won (Pool o( S60JS9 l 84
canted owerto Sandown today).
Ptecapoc £13150.

Yarmouth

Gotegtgooa

2.10 (lm6M7yd)1. HIGHLAND FANTASY
(p Holarxl. 13-21.2, NefrwfGrtnd, 3-1): 3.
FSfrranQQ Rase flV.Ry an. 9-1). ALSO RAN:
9-4 tar Horarta Mae J49i}, S StesaoaignL
10 Free Transfer. SO Bayn, 33 SwrtLSstf
AI Ad (Oh). 60 VWiatcomoenairaBy rah).
66ftteeeesE«Ai. Uran 2xi2hlnk.3M.

3 BHilsaLamboisn-Tote E1320;£230.

£1.40. £230 DF. £2530. CSF: £24 94
ZAO » M) 1. PALACSGATE TOUCH (G
Carter. »if: Z nasas Oowqm w Hood,
14-1); 3. Dttte Of BudwKXtti IP Rotinson.
16-1). ALSO RAN 6 l-brt Be PoBa.
LegeiKtey Hero (Slh) . 13>2 Dowreytre MH) .
rScnl 9e Safa'. (0 Mbs Faync, See

Strand, 12 Good bnage. Red BaHeL 14 Mr
Newomted (4th). 25 Badraufabar. Hue
TrunpaL Chafes Reward. The tesnfttfe
Boy, NUwnars Lady. 33 Jade Runner.
SwItJetTresana 20 ran Utl iteLrtv. II.
hd. J Beny at Coctertram Tote- £27.40:
£5.70. £6 10. £a30. DF £35360 CSF:
£26829. Winner bougW n lor 6.750pa

3.10 (81 3W0 1 . KING'S SIGNET (G HhxJ, 3-
1 tew). 2. Sasperclte (P Rohlracn, 20-1); 3.
NagWag Weaver. 9-1) ALSO RAN STate
Dancer. 13-2 Firte Goto. 7 TirahM Image.
Wadera Dream (6tfi), 10 Hi-Tech Honda
(48i). 14 Wabtaad, 16 Patecegae Racsia.
25 Fores! Fary. Laa Ex* (5Bi) 12 ran IM
1W. 31. 1JH nk J Gosden a NewmariraL
Tote. E420: £2-00. £3Ba £320 DF
£3460 CSF: £56.10. Tricast £449 71.

3.40 (81 3yd) 1. RACING TELEGRAPH (R
Pnce. Si; Private Hendteappei'a too
ra»inrt. 2, Penffllon (R HBs. si): 3. MaiVs
Club (D Holland. 14-1). ALSO RAN- 9-4 lav
Bobs Return (4th). 9 Splash 01 Sat 9
Somg Sixpence (Bm). 10 Who's The Besi.
12 Gan^aadar. 20 Home Aftalr.
Saaeamousa. 25 Access Festivals.
Tnangtepoim, Oix Shadee (5ttH. 33 Dtasrt
Spring. Smah N 1 Allan. 50 More Than Lowe
16 tan. II. 2%l. hd. Ml. Ht. J Pearce at
Nenmaitol Tata £5 70; £1 90, £2 IQ.
£4 BO DF: £820 CSF £35.73

4.10 (71 3ytn 1. TRUNDLEY WOOD (D
Hantaon, 11-1). 2. Anaalruck (N Day. 15-8

1; 3. Silent Expression (M Tabbutt, 9-2)
IRAN. l3-2Wbh*ig Cap. Soldiers Bay
. 9 Strfka-A-Pose (4thl. 10

rrevorertnapomts. 11 Rxmaeetre (Nr) 8
ran NR: SaBn Dancer THL «Lnk, TW. r*. .
G PmherrFGorttxr at N a w ma rtteL Tota:
£1750. £2.60, £1.10. £260. DF: £1820
CSF: £30.62. Tricost £9921 Ate a
stewards' enquiry, resul stood.
4^0(im3yd) 1. NIGHT TRANSACTION (N
varty. 12-h; 2. Coral Butter (B Lera. 9-1):
3. Yonge Tends g Curan 14-1). ALSO
RAN: 3 fav Case For The Crown. 5 Roca
Meada. 6 SHnteg Jawel 15th). State Of
Affairs (Shi. 10 Poaaesave Lady. 11
Edgaoway. 12 Daarae (4th). 20 Btus Drifter,
□on'i Drop Bombs. Henry Wil. 33 Sodiem.
Chari 15 ran. M? Macrmcem. OaUnuns.
m dun a, hd iw a hwo at
Namiatal Tota: C24D0: £5.10. £4.30
£610. DF. £9090. CSF £11968 Tricast.
£1.42992

Ptacepoi: not won (pool el £5.156.30
canted forward to Yarmoum today)

glh).

Trow

Sedgefield

Going: fam

230 (2m 51 110yd hale) 1. Mr Retoe
fate. 6-1): 2. BcK Bonedd (14-1|
Itons (8-1) CtovermM 6-5 tew u
1 VA. 10L J Wade. Tote £580. £210, £1
£1 BO. DF £35 10 CSF' £79.60 Trie
£624 38

3.00 (3m 3f 110yd hdte)1.l#dJar>d La
Muraand, 6-4 lav). 2, Fingera Cr«5«
41; a Har*»iB ( 12-11. 6 tan m 3i j £
To» £2.30: £1 60, £1.00 OF- £300 C
£5.14.

330 J2m II ch) 1. Tree
McWSotk. 6 - 1 ): Z Aston Ao_.

3. DoftUno (14-1) 12ran BL15I.J

Ttea: 0.80; £230. £2«. £350 DF: C
CSF: £19X8.

4.00 (2m Gf ch) i. u.

Ewre law); a Who'3

Okad Interest (13-a 4 ran. & 2fel.
Stephenson Tote' &00 DF. £10.00 l
£1135.

4^ (2m St 1 10yd hcaa) 1 . No Sd No 1
U Categhan, 6-1): Z S^er Halo J7-!
Scusonffl-4 fav) Uran.Hd.2W GM
Tag. £530: £1 .SO. £1 30. £1 20. DF. £
CSF; £3581

5.05 (2m II 110yd) 1. Nng Opdmfc
Tuner, ts-t). a spot Second (17-2
Royal Vacation (Evens ty) 10 ran.
Bold Mood 1 Ml, SWA&rim. Tote- C2I
£330. £1.00, £130. DF: 67630. I
£WJ 46 Attar a etamts' anq t*y. *
stood.

□330 and 4.00 races ana tence
omitted - high winds
Ptacepot £7330

RACING 29

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1992

3,.

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10* vr. KtSSJ-TS

&

Italian connection points
to encore for Mamdooh

FOLLOWING inner City’s
victoiy in a listed race in Italy
Dn Sunday. Mamdooh has a
fine chance of landing the
Golden Jubilee Challenge
Trophy at Yarmouth today
He is my nap. '

Judging the form of foreign
races is not always easy but, in
this instance, that task has
been made easier by the fad
that the runner-up was the Ian
Balding-trained Flashfoot,
who was himself the winner of
a similar race at Goodwood in
M^y. Yet. in Milan, Inner
City beat him all ends up by
four lengths.

The time before that Inner
City had himself been beaten
at Newmarket by Mamdooh.
albeit when trying to give Alec
Stewart’s unbeaten colt 1 71b.

The way that Mamdooh
won that day suggested
strongly that he had more in
hand than the judge’s verdict
of a length and a half might
suggest In the circumstances
the hand i capper may not have
got his measure yet even
though he has been raised 71b
for that victoiy.

To prove the point
Mamdooh is taken to account
again for Corona, who fin-
ished third in that Newmarket
race, even though she is 91b

. Michael Phillips

better off for three Mid a half
lengths.

Stiff opposition can also be
expected from Zalon, Pab-
ouche, VaHance and Wild Fire
but I feel that Mamdooh has
the scope to remain unbeaten
and show that he is destined to
scale greater heights in due
course.

While Michael Roberts will
be on duty at Yarmouth prin-
cipally to ride Mamdooh, Pat
Eddery wffl be at Sand own
where punters can benefit by
backing him to land a treble
on For Reg (3.20), Gone
Savage (3.50) and Besotted
(4.55).

Now that it is quite clear
that Alec Stewart has succeed-
ed in nursing his string back
to form after being plagued by
a virus for so long. For Reg
looks a good bet to win the Jan
Greig Benefit Handicap.

The winner of his only race
as a two-year-old. For Reg was
far from disgraced when fifth
in the Dee Stakes at Chester in
May, his only start this year.
Now, towards the end of a

tong season, he will strip far
fresher than most of todays
opposition.

El Yasaf, Martin Pipe’s
runner in the Rookery Claim-
ing Stakes, would be the
proverbial certainty if only he
were to run as well as he did at
Royal Ascot in June when he
finished fifth in the King’s
Stand Stakes.

However, Gone Savage,
who has won two handicaps
over today’s course and dis-
tance this season and been
pipped on the post in another,
looks the more reliable bet.
especially as Toby Balding’s

Stewart fancied runners
at two meetings today

sprinter receives 1 01b from the
top weight

Like all of the horses trained
by Barry Hills at Lamboum,
Besotted has had her season
curtailed by illness. However,
that fine run at Nottingham
three weeks ago, when she was
beaten only a head by the well-
regarded Tapis Rouge hinted
strongly that she should be
capable of regaining the win-
ning thread inthe Mitre Fil-
lies’ Graduation Stakes.

In the Oxshon Nursery, I
like none better chan the
Philip Mitchell-trained Sec-
ond Chance, who deserves
precisely that after finishing
second to Katiba ai Good-
wood last time. Geoff's Risk,
third at the Sussex track, looks
held on lib worse terms.

Some attractively-bred new-
comers contest the Alington
Maiden Stakes, including
Captain Jack, a half-brother to
Sheikh Albadou. by Salse.
However, it often pays to rely
on experience in these races
and the twice-raced Piston is
preferred on this occasion.

A good second to Abtaal
when apprentice-ridden at
Kempton last time. Piston has
the services of Bruce Raymond
today and hails from Ben
H anbury's in-form yard.

rrr j=

MANDARIN
Z 10 Red Ink.

2.40 Beggarman Thiaf.

3.10 Silky Siren.

3.40 Matron Of Honor.

4.10 MAMDOOH (nap).

4.40 Rose Alto.

5.10 Spring High,

THUNDERER

2.10 Ace Girf.

2.40 Yeltsin.

3.10 Flashy's Son.

3.40 Allegiissima.

4.10 Mamdooh.

4.40 Gusca Solo.

5.10 Lincstona Boy.

RICHARD EVANS: 2.40 Press Gallery. 4.10 WILD FIRE (nap).

Our Newmarket Correspondent 2.40 BEGGARMAN THIEF (nap).
4.10 Corona.

GOING: GOOD

DARW: 5F 43YD-1M 3YD, HIGH NUMBERS BEST SIS

2.10

NEWTOWN SELLING STAKES (£2,469: 1m 3yd) (10 runners)

(2) 0-2(140 CHEQUERS 8 (D.G) (D JoiHttt) R WWans 3-9-2. RCodnoe

(71 004060 ARMA5H0CKER 63 (T today) D Sacs 4-9-0-
<B) 642622 AK G8L 18 (D.F) (Ms P Bang) S Boring 38-11.
(1) 5420 ABJJL 13 (J HUMS) M TompUrc 3-6-10.

(5) 300-050 RED Iff 35 (BF) [Us S fowl) J SBfcOh 3-6-10.

(6) 0043-00 SAWN 95 (BJ (Us R tawl 0 Mart 34-10—

(*J 04 TOP SRE 28 (H Ala) J Godin 3-8-10

(3) 20-500 GSttJN: LADY 21 (Mb 0 tariff) A Jmfe 4-8-9.

„ R Price (5) -
B Harts (7) 60
GDtoltaU 75

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BETTHG: 7-2 Ottuuas. 4-1 Act Sri. W Art U. 5-1 Sri*. 6-1 Santa Lady. 7-1 A0L 10-1 offws
1001: MCA BELOW THE UK 3-9-2 0 Metals' (13-2) W Poet 13 w

2.40 LIFEBOAT MAIDEN STAKES

(2-7-0 colts & geldings: £2,490: 7Y 3yd) (12 runners]

BARRAAK 1H AMtttan) W Hbb SHL

(10) 000-600 ALTON BELLE 19 (B)(MaP Start) PKortkg 3-8-5..
(9) 404 iTARRM: 10 (Mrs K Snerii) J non 34-5

PUEtUay 83

SaptaiOnteg) M

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WRyai 88

BCromfcy -

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0 CONEYBURY 19 (R Saagsttr) L C«nta 00 .

_ W Carom -
R Cochrane 83
LDcnrf a

D006Y DANCER (MaGKtoHdi & MsE Ktox) Ms L PtggoU 9-ft — LPlggon -

0 KNITS 49 (Sofiam Tom Pantos CW» Ms H ktawiar 9-0 _ NCarfcte -

4 NESSUH DQRMA Z7 (H Monts) 6 Mapg 9-0 M Rotate 06

PRESS 6ALLHIY (Lon) HoroKSWMen) Ms J Cedi 94 PtaEddciy -

0 SCOR0082(8\As*)CBrtttoM...__ BDoyHp) -

2 SHAREEK27 (MAI Mdaom) M State 90 AMnD 98

00 SZf BAB83lPnii*)MBwn9fl -

0 TIME HONORED 8 (Pinnacle Ftadog Sable) M Presafi 9-0 BMW 79

YBJSK (SAaftfe Motarnnot) H Cedi 90 WRyai -

BETTING: 134 Ytofim. 100-30 Steak. 9-2 Cmaytay. 5-1 Baggamwi lhw, 6-1 Aew Gatay. 8-1 Dn*
12-1 Noam Dorm, 20-1 Wwi.

1991; BANDMASTER MPriEdday (911 Iw) Ms J Cad 9 ai

.1 0 SHADWEa STUD APPRENTICE SERIES HANDICAP

2,723: 7f 3yd) (14 runners)

(3) 211112 FLASHY'S SON 18 (D8F,Ffi) (Let Ud) M Ranwmd 4-104,
000100 AFFORDABLE 50 (D.F.G) (Miss M Ka^l) W GMB 4-911 .

( 6 )

(A

(141

Autumn (7) 94

36 Q 50 Q D^jTMSPMTw" (T Ariajr) DS m* 399 Rffleo 07

014113 CORAL FLUTTER 36 (B.CUF) (Mrs J Payne) i Paj» 5-99 B La na (3) 82

,131 Q2C23 ALMASA 15 (F.G) (Mis R HaatSJ D Monk 4-96 SupSonltate 94

640020 PEERAffi PRWCE 12 (BF.G) (0 Hcfcbs) PM Mttell 3-9-6 RPHlro 92

( 12 )

(5)

(91

HU

(71

410554 BALLERINA BAY4 (V.CD.G) (Ms C MHkmnd) D Tlwn 4-9-4. F Amwsnft (5) 95

300550 JJQGEMOTr CALL 4 (F.G) (K Wasta) P Krrijng 5-9-3 C Artayg) 03

605502 S&XYSmEN12PI(5»»)EWhWw3-90-- «

404050 kWDOWCA 27 (V.D.G) (J KB*®) M Bed 3-8-9 KMnr 07

BDoyto 69
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4 ) 000300 BEUATRK 34 IMs C Brain) C Brttta 4

(10) 002833 SURE SHOT NORMAN 2T (K Parmr) J Sa Jte 38-5 m

(2) 0360 GUESSnUATlON 77 [Dm« 1 PawraVD) J S

|l) 1060-00 SAB0TBJF 28 (CO^.G) [Mr A Dstel W Mow* 8-7-7 0 McCabe (5) 80

I tor^ iri p- Sahota* 7-4

HNS: 11-4 Flssnv's Soa 7-2 Coral FMto. 5-1 S»» Siw. 5m Sal Norm n. 91 Batata My. Poo*
s. 191 AIKmH*. 12-1 Atnasa. 191 o*wa

1091: W CQRRESPOND04G RACE

Blinkered first time

SANDOWN PARK: 32t'

Satlan BEVERLEY: 2 30 Rofy
330 WnQhtrroS 5 35 Maho^ny U0M-

530 HopoU BU. YARMOUTH: 2.10
Gown, tothemomem. bsh Roots.

3.40 NORFOLK FARM BIS CLAIMING STAKES

(2-V-0: £3,036: 7f 3yd) (19 runners)

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240 ANGUS DUNDEE 8 (B) (Angus Data LM)HC«dl 91.

55104 MBS FAYRUB 37 (C 0 .G) (K Phffipp) Ms L PW* 97.

IlYRyaa 80
... LPlggn 73

51060 PREMHil20(BBF£|(KmclVMKyT)iBmu|^itmtsLld)YfhbgBas97 U Roberts 82

RU040 ASC0U PAEB1 TOO 8 (Astan Tab-Nma US P Hmlho 8-8 BCratakv 67

aPBOAL FORTE (C Boon) RWItans9& RCochnm -

00060 R0GEFLYSI33iAPacla|^Ud)UCaapimn96». SWabflBT 59

11021 ALLEGRSSDIA 18 (D.FA) (P Chmta) J Baiy 92 0 Carter 95

8 MATRON OF HONOR 19 (W firedtayr) N HMgN 92-

OO SECRET FANTASY 15 (Ms CWNQCIMI 90

00 CAPIBi MORGAN 13 (J Uoyd) W HtadOBS 7-13.

530530 IfitOC DSD 25 (Hie No-Afl Partnenalfil M Tompkina 7-13.
0 CUD DIH B(E SbBmi MT otcMb 7-lS.

D HONOUR AM) GLORY 89 (J Ortall) Bob Jones 7-12

332 MAM7ELLE ANG0T 12 (BF) (J Gredtoa) M Stale 7-12..
426 PONTEVECCHO MOOA IS (W Male) D BaraSi 7-12 —
500 TAFROUKA 13 (A AMBdoO G Loris 7-12 .

443100 MADAM CYITS RBK 6 (D.G) IRoidiats Ltd) N Caltaghan 7-8.

400 MAUBHIY CHARLOTTE 9 (Ms A MS) A .tarts 7-6

00 PRMCESS N3M 36 (R IMi) B McMA 7-8

.. PtaEddny 73

N Garish -

A Monro -

. 6 MAwy(7) 74

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BETTVX2: 7-4 AOeoifiB&ia 2-1 Anon Dindee. 92 PrantaB. 7-1 Msmteta AngoL 191 Mss Fajnc. Ponfe-
KObio Mam. 14-1 oBhb.

1991: LE BARON PBIOC B-5 G Barts (191) C Jam 16 cae

4.1 0 GOLDEN JUBILEE CHALLENGE TROPHY HANDICAP

(£7,765: 1m 2f 21yd) (9 runners)

U)

11 MA1D00K 18 0XF.G) (H AMuHtoan) A 9 hu1 39-11.

M Retails 95
WCscm 97

(8) 941510 ZALON 25 (DBFJA PMh KounnwO J Gosdffl 3-911_

(2) 1-8441 PAB0UC)E3O(BiXF£) (Shafth Mnaammefl H tea 398 StaptaaQMufS) 86

(9) 2228(5 BUSTH1 ROCK 46 (0)^,0) (Ms C A Daison) Mrs LPiflOM 7-9-3_ LPiggon 98

(Q 001112 VAilANCE 33 (DJ.6) (14s P Harris) P tails 4-91 PMEdtay 97

(3) 010215 BARFORD LAO 46 (D/^) C Hmdssnta) J FnsfeM 5-91 . RCachram 97

(1) 412023 WILD RRE 30 IHISFfl (a PWSp Oppentatow) G Waflfl 38-12 WRym 07

(4) 4-00203 CORONA 1 8 AF.G)(yBfa)OM Beil 998 G Dufiald 95

9 e? 911300 MYHJNTAINE 18 fXPAq (K Imy) Khmy 54W_— GBartwri C9

BETTW& 92 MamdDOh. 7-2 WHd Rro, 91 Cudm. 91 2abn. 7-1 PWnta. WUsotr. 191 Basted Lad.
Based Rod 291 Myta***.

1991: JURA 39-2 A McOooe (4-1 Ini H Cent 9 ran

4.40

NORTH SEA HANDICAP (£4,464: 1m 3f 101yd) (10 runners)

(4) 24251-0 VINTAGE 11 (CD,F,S) (MRU! W Hub) W Hon 7-1D4L

A Mono 90

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BETHN6: 31 Goea Soto. 4-1 Cleav 5«««L 91 Malv^ Law. 91 Rasa Ado. Sasnoo, 9l AMertroot vnage.
191 D RNta. Mtamse. 291 Btai Sophta.

1001: VWTABE 9190W R Srinbum (7-2) W Hera 6 ran

( 8 ) 393351 GUECA Sa0 18 (CfiSHEmssOltalriiMC SI Geoirt HCari 4-99 WRyin 95
(3) 091004 ROSE ALTO 25 ff) (T S J Vestey) J Fanstaw 448 BDuffMd 94

(5) 810520 SASTABO 25 (F.G) (A AbdiAd i Gosden 3-92 Pat Eddery 92

( 2 ) 125023/ BUWKSAPPHRE 1801 ff)(P Beta Ud) MTonolns 9910 — SMYwy(7) -

( 6 ) 126630 MUWBE 25 (F)(Sli WIBm McAlpise) D Mgrtey 399 MTebbud 97

(10) 632060 MWOR^LAW 19(S)[C0«sy)CBrttiln38-2 MRotarts 08

(0) 5-23842 CLEAR SOUK) 39 (Sb Reds McAIpke) G Wragg 37-12.—.

(1) 190250 H. RABAB 19 (S) (H AI-MaUnsn) HTtnaan Jones 37-11).

(7) 325 AUJBWWOK 74 g Stars) MS JCbcI 37-9

D Hanbon (3) 91
WCaro ®
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5.1 0 HALVERGATE HANDICAP (£3,114: 51 43yd) (7 runners)

1 (2) 002130 SW GAPTAM 46 (0 DWcrnil P Hraring 9190 GDufBdd 93

2 (1) 121114 SPWNflHBH6(BXaBF^(KlBry)RI«y3lM GBartart 96

3 (5) 264310 LBU3TOWBOY13 (WLF.S) (MsJAddteta) S B«nil>9 4-99— SWAster 98

4 13) 064360 JOE SUGDB1 13 (ELF.ELS) M Asrasa) P Horfafl 998 MRobTO 96

5 (4) 009000 LE CMC 20 (P^ IJ WOmah) 0 Qaprnan 99-4 LOtasI 92

6 (7) 060205 1DW4Y TBffEST 57 (Ms E Bute] K Burts 3-B-O AShotaS 89

7 (6) 350061 BAISARA'S CimE 8 (VD.G) (A Faam) M Bloctad 4-IW (7m) — C Awy (7) ffl

SETTWS: 7-4 Spftg Kigh. 5-2SU Captan. 7-2 eartwa's Cuds. »-2L«swwasy. 191 Jm&vta. M-l M
Cldc, 291 Tommy TempoL

1991: FACTUELLE 44-7 M Roberts (PWH Fsttarttoo-Gatay 8 as

COURSE SPECIALISTS

TRAINERS

H Cecil
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198

Jockey Club’s
green light

THE Jockey Club has con-
finned that Jo N Jack, the
controversial 33-1 selling race
winner at Lingfield last week,
did nor break the rules.

The Betting Office Licens-
ees’ Association (BOLA),
which advised members not to
pay out over the winner, sent
derails of "unusual betting
patterns" to the Jockey Club’s
security department.

The Jockey Club yesterday
issued a statement saying mat
“none of these points involved
a breach of the Rules of
Racing- However, informa-
tion about certain aspects of
this affair has been passed to
the police."

Jo N Jack had a routine
dope test after the race and the
results have not yet been

mandarin , M

2.15 Mbs Simone. 2.45 Classics Fasti a IS Capital
Punishment 3.45 The Black Monk- 4.15 Skipping Tim.
4.45 Gold Medal.

THUNDERER

2.15 Miss Simone. 2.45 Key Dear. 3.15 B ankro ll. 3.45
The Black Monk. 4.15 Skipping Tim. 4.45 Gold Medal.

GOING: FIRM

SIS

2.15 STELLA ARTOIS NOVICES HANDICAP
HURDLE (£1 ,453: 2m 3f) (B runners)

EC4- V0MER0 149 (V) P NanOs 7-11-10 I

U>3 IDRD’S RNAL21_CBpdl 5-11-9-

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2.45 BODOBcnw Btrra novices clawing

HURDLE (£1.481: 2m 111 10yd) 06)

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Dm, 191 StanfflHMfl Scsta. 12-1 ttmnQ Eye. 391 rttarL

COURSE SPECIALISTS

TRAINERS: M Pipe. 95 Hirers Ban 226 nmers, 420\Mrs F
Wiluyn. 3 (ram S, 313%; C WUOman, 4 Wfni 4. 2W S Omar,
4 two 15. 217%; 6 BSKSOfl. 22 tm W. 26j!V 0 StarwoO. 4 tan
19.2111.

JOCKEYS: P Sodium. 76 worn ban 156 dde; 4911; 6
McCoul 8 hrm 32. S.OV S CtMont 5 tan 23. 21.7\ 8 IS
tan 16. I&fll- R Guest 12 tan 6& 17.Mfc j FflW. 21 tan 123.
17.11

3.1 5 MURPHYS IRISH STOUT NOVICES CHASE

(£2.120: 2m II 110yd) (10)

r B Cirts 7-11-12 D Monts

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10 BP-P CHASING GOLD 11 A bun 91911 S&ita

91 3 Albans Lad, 7-2 Frisco C 8 y. 4-1 KhL 91 Btarofl. 91 Samri. 191
item Sort Lad. 12-1 Pfcy Tta Btas. 291 ottas

3.45 TROPHY BITTER SB11NG HURDLE

(£1,418:2mitn0yd)(6)

1 OP-1 THE MLJICX RiOfflC 7 (B.CDA M Rpe 4-11-i2_ P SeudtarnB

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(£2,647: 3m If) (9)

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2 3(2-0 'TU»MEISWDAW»1ip^0)TF«M 19199 — A WMb

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4.45

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HURDLE {Amateurs: £2.063: 2m If 110yd) (9)

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: 5AND0WN PARK

MANDARIN
2^0 Second Chance.
2^0 Piston
3^0 For Reg.

3.50 Gone Savage.
4£0 KabayU.

4.55 Besotted
5.30 Confronter.

THUNDERER

2.20 ANSELLMAN (nap).

2J50 Piston.

3^0 Langtry Lady.

3 JO Gone Savage,

420 Banish.

4J55 Besotted.

530 Confronter.

RICHARD EVANS: 3.20 Akkazao.

Ctor Newmarket Correspondent 2:50 Captain Jack.

The Tunes Private Haidicapper's top rating: 5.30 CONFRONTER.

GOING: GOOD (BACK STRAIGHT GOOD TD RRM) SIS

DRAW: 5F 6YD, HIGH NUMBERS BEST

2.20 OXSHOTT STAKES NURSERY HANDICAP

(2-Y-O: £3.761: 51 6yd) (13 runners)

101 (13) 531325 ANSELLMAN 16 (D.S) |A0S8US Cl tetad) M Hqtb 9-T JtfOTn (5) 87

1(Q HI 38Z415 »©WSSKRST li (DAS) (Stanwods Tbebbo lb) w Cana 912 J Reid 97

103 (1) 13220 TUSCAN DAWN 30 ffLS) (Mss AtoWtal J Baiy 8-1 TOtmn 98

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105 (6) 301442 SSCONO CHANCE 10 OLS) (Dow aflOuBHKdWP MittWl MD-. D B<BS ®

108 (12) 402020 WMTHSUJRD 12 (Mrs F taBOJ C Ca 7-10 N Athens 96

107 (7) 205 AUNTIE SfCBn B (P »iey) PButa 7-7 D Toole (71 ffi

108 (10) 54332 GEOfFS REX 9 (Roldak Ud) 6 Lew 7-7 CHaris)ey(7) 93

109 (5) 20200 NENSWORTH LADY 12 P Mritaws) M Bbndad 7-7 J Chaim go

110 (8) 2S55 B&lSABANGttS 30 (Me M Mcttam) D lahg 7-7 ATuctef 34

111 ISi 025500 KW1WYNB Ota FBxsnjD Lang 7-7 TWBans 88

112 (9) 002515 CUDDLY DATE 9 0)JS) ( 01 X 90)0 Titan 7-7. Kan UcDaonri (7) 85

113 Q 000460 PETITE VH0 27 (Ms J Rotacm) J tafei 7-7, ArtUtant Aimes (71 $8

Long Mw tap: Aob)b Bnob 7-5. Geoff's RU 7-3. Kennffffi Lady 7-1. BHlsdnopng 7-0. K&tayn 7-0. CuxB)
tote 6-12. Pw& Woo S-lfi

Bfnw& 9-4 Tesan D» 3-1 Second Ctace. 5-1 Sbefe's Start. 13-2 AnseRnai 9-1 Udang toage, 14-1
Geoff’s Risk. Wwtad. 291 atec.

1991: BLUE TOER 912 6 tepnonfl |7-1) B Nsn&ffj 9 r»

FORM FOCUS

ANSELLMAN 4)41 5di M 10 b Set Family Friend
m Rtam ret. SOM) had race. SHEILA'S SECRET
81 50 0(6 M Staff Ward * hBiODn (6J. Dood).
TUSCAN DAWN nk 2nd ol 5 to MtertimAo &
CXepsuH 154. rod to final wtr UNTWYNillb
bemroS) itwrat SECOffl CHANCE 21 2nd 8>
Kama a Goodmod (61 good m adQ Mn
GEOfFS R&K (lb ms se oO) 2%l 3nL pentnEly

41 48i to Cantara Sap a Windsor i5l. good to
SflA) MIX BELLSABAfKNG wane ofl, nk an
and TUSCAN DAWN (51b beaef off) 3H« Tel
WATERLDRD VH 2nd to Kflon Uav at CXeiet
i5L good In him) on pemsun». GEOfFS RISK aj
2nd s> Laurel Deteu al WohvrtanstDn I5J. man
witft CUDDLY DATE (51b tore off) 2VI kti
Setoctac SECOND CHANCE

2.50 AUKGTON MAI OBI STAKES (2-Y-O: £3.057: 71 16yd) (14 runras)

201 (8) 3 JW COMMAND Z7(D SaW Bltamt 9-0. . B Rase 80

202 13) CAPTAH JACK (LwJ Canantn) L Centmi 9-0 JWeatr(5) -

203 (12) 06 COMJSLAND 12 (P McKmai) R Isgrara 9-0 - J (tain 79

204 (2) 5 EASTERN MEMOKES 53 |J Hagxir RHman 90 SWbarotti 80

205 (7) GRADBfT Pad Hawnl de nUden) Ms J Cec4 9-0 J Red -

206 (5) MOUJEQ (Hlinaim Al LUdBan) M Stade 90 . PD'Aicy -

207 (11) 62 PSTDN 28 (Sued S*taD B Hantay 90 ... B Raymond |§

208 (9) 0 SECRET ASS&WMBKT 18 (RCWB>CCy 2 ff 90 ... Dftgns -

209 (HI) 0 SW OF SHAW 9KH 19 [WlndnomiOieise*! Hoangs Ins) J Dunlop 9-0 CRuma so

210 161 TRPPIANO (MnM Bunrefi) H Cecil 90 ... PaiEawy -

211 (13) 03 GREY WATCH 18 (C KonmeD lady Hants 8-9 ... jWEtars 90

212 (14) 0 fflJSTAW 19 (Mrs R Amcocng) fl Amarong 99 NDjy -

213 (1) 46 HARD TASX 12 U Rmta) R Jctmsan Hougan 99 Tttjsn 92

214 (4) 0 SUN GREBE 19 (Sh Timas PWngui) J Dubp 99 GBaeer -

BETTHG: 5-4 Triootro. 4-1 P tana Captati JxK 91 Monieeo. 91 GaSaa 191 As Crrmwd. 291 dim

1991: ZAAH 90 R Han (Evem br) H Thoraoi Junes ii ran

FORM FOCUS

AIR COMMAND 3KI 3rd ci 6 D MgH hktay m
Saiaiy (5L good id tau stakes race. CAPTah
JACK (Baled May 1) TUHtatier by Sake to kp-
cta sprtrda SteUi Albrtaa
EASTBffl MEMORES 5WI 5Di d B to tadd
Success In Asad (BL good to hm) m&Uai GflA-
DOfT (Feb 7) by Sortoy Haights, brntoer to 1m-
itn 4) wfam Gotan HelgMs and a hati-botaei to
6anMler. MOUJEEB (Apt 34) haff-tmtier by Rto-
emn to Desen Dliham, 71/im Mina at m and

three yeas. PISTON hd 2nd ci 15 3 AQaaJ a
Kempton (7t, good) wnh HARD TASK (sane
tame) 31 «fi SW OF SHARP SHOT 9WI 9di ol
16 to Empenn Jones In Newmakei (71. goad)
maiden iMi GUSTAWA (s me toms] ?sl )3m
and SUN GRSE lane temy 31 14th
1RFPUN0 Uan 22) by FjopJano. touffi tel of a
71 *nner In the Stales. GREY WATCH 4%1 3m to
Ytaotton Rhns a Goodwod (71).

Setodton: GREY WATCH

3.20 IAN 6RBG BBilEHT HANDICAP (£4,354: 1m 14yd) (10 runners)

301 (4) 1-5 FOR REG 132 (SI (D ODeffly) A Smart 3-910 PaEriMy 67

302 (6) 411106 BALUGA 46 (CJXF5) (J Thompson) G Hannod 90-4 ACfsk 91

303 (9) 524210 BIG BUS 27 (G) (Ms C MBo) C BrtK*i 3-94 T (taio SO

304 (5) 211120 KFTUICS PET 16 (Of) (K Synwtos and Patoni G Lew 4-9 3 JR«(t 80

305 (3) 00343) STRONG SUT 47 &F.6) (6 HoMd-Spink) R (tenon 3-92 SVn*mrtb89

306 (B) 634600 LANGTRY LADY 1 1 (VJLF5) (Ms I Baon) II Ry»9912 D B(ggs 89

307 (2) SWMO BfflSETD 71 (S) (Storied) H Cad 3-911 BRayimnl 89

3BB (1) WOCH AKK/IZAO IB (COS) (EPamnWCvtr 4-3-9 B Rouse S3

309 (IQ) 645408 CAWBfS RANSOM 13 (OF) (B Crien) D BsMvtl 5*2 JWBans £g

310 (7) 038553 DANCE ON SOPBICE 1 1 (V.CJfl (J Ke»y) H Cotongndge 4-7-9 JQuhu 91

B£TTN£ 7-2 Canton's Ransom. 4-1 Ft* Reg. Akkazao. 91 Latgby Lady. 91 Bam taitnna’s PH 91
Baraato. Big Blue. KM Sboog Sul 291 otas.

1991: SHAW 1TSU001H 4-90 R Fife (9-1) R Hama ID on

FORM FOCUS

FOR REG 5MI 5di d 7 U My Mantas b OesW
(im 21 75yd. good to tom) ind race. BIG BLUE
bed North Asia II hi 10-nmner Ripon (tm 11.

n niaidai on pendtinato start.

NFS. PET Ztol 2nd oi 4 to Avica Cap) h
Brighton (1m 21. Ikm) handtap on paaltimato
tart. AKKAZAO 51 4H (BIO D Sumy Dancer to

Gooduood Mm If, good to sat) handicap. CAM-
DBTS RANSOM 3t4l 4&i ot 21 » Lfitlei Bean In
vtowble Goadmxl dm. good lo Inn) hsrieqi b

^ DANCE ON 9XPBKCE HI ta of T9 U A«*
i Hi Kempton (im. good) handicap nidi
LANGTRY LADY (Sto better off) 51 IIIl
S aiecdon: AKKAZAO (nap)

3.50 ROOKERY CLAIMING STAKES (£2.921: 51 6yd) (7 runners)

401 ill 555400 EL YASAF 27 (0.G.S) (J Kiugmonl M Pbs 4-9-3 — — JWlllums ®

402 (4) 9 AL BB1AL 302 (J Enogeri J Bndgei 4-fl-9 .. TMUlain -

403 (5) 354609 LYMX9TS UflJFT 302 (Dfl (J Bryan Sraifi) R b^xn 4-99 . .. COwyw 7 T

W ( 6 ) 012010 GONE SAVAGE 7. (CO^.SJ (H Mradj G foumg 4-8-7 — Pr Eddery 95

405 1 31 001340 OCKEHSLANE 15 (Dfl (Bid 8 Be» Racing) B Hodges 993 _ DBggs 74

406 (7) 515000 FAY’S SONG 8 (D.BF/.Gl (& tapb) Atenua 4^-2 Jttrmn 98

407 G aDOOOO BLACK JEWEL 37 dOFAS) (Di j snenfan) M US»v 9^-1 CRu» -

BETTING: 1 1 -8 Gone Saaer 92E Yasrt 91 Fay's Song 192 Daimui*. 14- 1 unaons Unrta. 40-i u
Biffal Black JM

1991: EASY Uff 995 U [mo (frJ tax) P Fmow G ran

FORM FOCUS

EL YASAF 111 10th Mil to LyncFareuY in grow
i Mswtmt rtrthorpe Stakes to Ygn iM. g«o n
<my GONE SAVAGE oeto Misoemewus Sir pi
m w cane and dtsara* tnid to are) on
pervaiL-TO s&rt mm DICKENS LANE ;iBni worae

Off) aouffl 111 4m. FAY'S SONG 10 1001 or 19 *
Fast mi on ware m LngheH (61 gout u mi
lumfcap BLACK JEWEL ton ot 1.' to (tort 0:
Dtanbas to Laytmn dm 6Q.

Setoetunr GONE SAVAGE

4.20 HEADWAY PROPERTY INITIATIVES HANDICAP

(£4,01 1 1 m 31 91 yd) (1 5 runners)

501 (51 910061 BAIRM43mAS{»niR4ta«rs91(H).... JReat 9i

532 Iffi D1144- DIKE OF MONMOUTH 139J (Df.Gl [A Sieed) S Ehcnrood 4-190 MPenen B1

503 i?l 550002- CASTlf ODYW 387 (F.S) ILtoy H«v MundmJ) Lriy (fcriea 7-98 J(tam 81

504 .131 022304 WESTERN DYNASTY 11 (D.F.G2) (U hoxni LI Bjaa 997 . J Wearer [5| 91

N5 171 963642 MAJOfl BfiLtR 16 |BF) (M ken-Oneeni G Baiflufl 3-9-6 PaEooenr 94

505 fl5) a'35-631 LUOMO CLASSICS 13 (Fi) (Urs A Gawaom) R Haw 991 C Baser 91

JOT |9J +842 WSAVl H fhartao AF-iisUoumf P Ktara a-33 B House 93

508 mi 314 JANAAT 13 (SI ittancm Al Makhun) A Loffl 3-92 . . .. BRaymud 94

509 (12) 242223 R&K6 TBflPO U |CJ1 (9 CWP) C Cy» 4-913 D tad 95

510 (1) SOI 230 MAK&lfl. 11 (F.S) [rtanabn Ai-HUwn) C EWnaun J-B-17. . . . T Quasi 90

511 (14) 40165 SECOM) CALL 8 (S) (C Ttooeii H CrtOy 3-9B CRmter 95

512 (G) 623113 rMELECTHC 8 iG-SllBUctKitfetR CofflS 698 . .... . NOW »

515 (2) 3440-50 VLAGGI0 13 (Oak Ties Syndeaf) J Aktluird 4-8-1 SWlttmrtn 91

514 101 000621 BTT ON THE SHE 8 (G) lU Howell W Maun 3-0-1 ital - . TUNUana (S

515 (I3i 000112 BO KNOWS BEST 13 ^f.G2) (J S-jarnnei J SiicliHr >7-7 .... NAOms 97

BETTK& 4-: Bff On The 5toe. Uta Bugler. 91 Bang Tempo 91 Bo Knmn Bed UtotsuJ 9i Barth. IM
inOertnc. 14-1 tch«i

1991: BELAFOHTE 4-9-1 A Tnrta (9l) R Hotaa 12 ran

FORM FOCUS

BARRISH tm Pren rtprJnl EJ n 7 -fume
dm 4 J. bin) handiup DUKE OF MON-
JI am ot 10 lo Utaal Veil to Windsor
ilm 31 i5Si3. oood to Firm) ri~aap last August
CASTLE CLOWN isl 2 nd oM 2 to Dom Wjc m
rto>eu riders' narvheap oner mnse and £hua net
mo od to imi raa AJ^ri
WESTBW DYNASTY 11 4C1 to Ohm Gel to
hsnsmo dm -fi. good) wsb UANSUL (41b bate
0(11 171 l5oi MA^R BUGLER Ji M M rt 7 to
Gueoa Sato m Cnecsow dm 21. sA) nantocar
LUOMO CLASSICS hear Cadency rft a Caiiduy
[Im 21. ostl) JANAAT 41 3rd to Vttnl al HayOKA

Mm 21170yd prod) wun KABAVtL |!Hi •w* toil
a(| cm RSn& TEMPO Pti Jro lo Dam at >o»
lim £1 good).

MAHSUL 5'tI 3rd to C U Com to Sab-Jut lie. ?(
good to sod) on oenutonUe .or SECOM) CALL
(7m no r» ofli toaund n 6m
ru ELECTRIC 1 *t 1 3in B ^evrtop 3 LfiCf.'.-r
i lm 21 KOTJ) mm SECOND CALI r«pne iiW 21
5fft. BIT ON THE SBC be to Sn^so Atarm-ra it
to lbccw lim 4(. Dood) BO MKJWS BEST hi
2nd ro Shown to Stoemn (im 41 ■^nr\ w.n

viagqo piib pan cm 5 J nn

Sefecton. MAHSUL

4.55 MITRE FILLIES GRADUATION STAKES

(3-Y-O. £3.51 D: Im 2f 7yd) (4 runners)

TCtarn OJ
Pattddera ffl
J Rod m
A Cbt --

FORM FOCUS

EDI I3i 4-13202 ANKE BOKNY 26 (G) iDIhniBonl JFjtsnjM 9-4

602 |2i 12 BESOTTED 23 (D.F) i» AMutUI B IID-, 9-4 _. .

603 HI 190 SEA CL01CR 130 |f) (SftjAh Utowmcd) w hen 0-4

604 (4i NATOE2 TRACE »Dr i Hobbfl J [Wdri' B-11 .. -

BETTTO <-7 Beseded. «-i Sea Cltwe' P i Am Homy. Mad*: Tore

1991 ' PERCY'S 6FL 9-4 5 Catohm i96 tut G Wragg 7 or

ANNE BONNY 11 2nd n 11 lo Grand Marta in
han anjo h oe ilm il. gooa to sofli
BESOTTED nd 2nd Of 7 lo Taob Rome b N«Un-
tam dm 2! good) graduation an SEA CLOVER

74i 8(n ol 1 3 to Foia In Bath I im 2L stotl ronoicjc
in Mav NATCfftZ TRACE By Comntnrr iun
nai rtrtB m Ficridi 7i-im 4t *Wn ikaitai gi*v
S eteoton- BESOTTED

5.30 HERS HAM APPRENTICE HANDICAP

(3-Y-O: £2,999: 7f 16yd) (9 runners)

1 ft) 231212 COMRONTBt 53 (DJS) (Y Nastt) P Cob 97 JOSnriip) ®

2 r4| 26224S BY HAM) 18 (D.F) (krbsU Haggas) WLfaggasS-l . Saffy Rarflort-Ho-ea i7) 92

3 (21 603124 MOROCCO 12 (Di) (M Mien) R Ctatai 96 RhoaiGan! \7r B 8

4 (3) 014000 HOPEFUL BO 4 (BD.F) (N Capanl 0 ttmnoa 912 MaAOenmiT) B7

5 (1) 624500 C0N5TDN LAKE 16 (8,0/) (K Mgsmi G Lewis 97 .... Amanda Bomen (7) 94

6 ( 6 ) 031300 CAPPAHODSH 9 (BFS) (Ms P Btola) H ContrvUoe 7-9 C ttawtsley (3) 94

7 16' 224300 COUNTBIOCCX 12 (C HughB) C WJ 7-7 TMfeoof) 97

6 (9) 400504 GREAT HALL 16 (B)(PCtnM)P Until 7-7 ArmtaneAima 93

9 (71 010500 SMUDGBIUPUU 22 (G) IM Chanptom Miss B Sanders 7-7 . — _ DTuta(4| 84

Lang nankqE Cartetched 7-6. Grail Had 7-0. Smu*)DtijpBm 913

BETTff® 2-1 CentaMK. 4-1 tatabNta 8-1 By HnL B-i HDpciul BHL Maocto. 14-1 Co*rt£«i Lton. < 6-1
Coonc check. 291 Ueal HtoL Smudgennun

1901: DANCE ON SKPHCE 3-913 J QUnr (10-11 H Ctokngridge 18 ran

FORM FOCUS

COWttONIER 3W 2nd to 10 to Badnri in Ascto
rim. good (o ftm) taDci raca BY HAND annMI
Mi to 13 to Stani In Nnmakto (7t good) hatfofi
aiffi HOPEFUL BD (same tennrt 11 m
MOROCCO around 21*1 4th tol8 to Smereign

Rock in Kcnvlon (71. good) hanfitai wtffr COUN-
TBDffiCX (lt> rna too 4V4I lDn. COMSTON
LAKE bta WnUHeltaW M in 17-iurn Brighton
(7L good to ttra) hantocap on gantottmto
Stoaotac MOROCCO

COURSE SPECIALISTS

TRAINERS

WkB

Rras

Ik

JOCKEYS

Wtonm

Ride

%

L Currani

H Ced

15

20

54

73

278

ZIA

5"

50

21

272

238

184

G Hawed

21

94

223

A Tucker

5'

32

15.6

W Han

8 '

43

.188

T Qdnn

2D

136

14.7

M Stouto

27

153

77.6

J Raid

12

149

51

M Beff

6

34

178

(Only qutotoos)

MANDARIN

2.30 Penny Banger. 3.00 Tyrian Purple- 3-30 Ume
River. 4.00 Catherines WelL 4.30 Avro Anson. 5.00
Glacial Moon. 535 Safir.

THUNDERER

2.30 Parny Banger. 3.00 Cold Shower. 3.30 Runrig.
4.00 Catherines WelL 4.30 Broctune Grey. 5-00
Glacial Moon. 5J35 Safir.

GOOD

DRAW: 5F, HIGH NUMBERS BEST

SIS

2.30 HUMBER ESTUARY NURSERY SELLING
HANDICAP (2-Y-O: £1 ,684: 71 100yd) (19 runners)

1 0540 POLY \rt90N 6 (B) M Ctoraxn 97 DHotraflC

2 0060 EMMAIOS 35 (B) U W Eaaaby 9-4..- LClwmra*9

3 3000 HDTEL CAUFORHA 28 J Hffb 9-( s.-JUS* 1 ?

4 4380 STARDUST EXPRESS 16 M 4tomrtne 9-4 RPBfcBlj

5 6440 SOCETY GOWN B (B£F) T toon W KDarty B

8 080 STEAL A MARCH 11 U tl Easiedry 93 TLucai 15

7 2200 WEAVBf ffiOREE 8 M H Easubv 9-0 — _ MBfecDID

8 0200 LETTBWORE 11 R Whiakir 9-0 G Part* (7)4

9 506 FORTHBWMBIT 80 (B) P Cak« 913 MAmlS

10 0000 SIREfflOK 28 U iDmokni 913. — -PRobbamB

11 538 STAPLETOH) LASS 32 S Wards 9i2 W Woods 7

12 1640 C0M1ECS LEGBO 22 (DJ) J Bomm<ey 912 N Kennedy (5) 1

13 0242 PBHY BANGH1 16 BF) M Jonnson 9n _ Dean MOCaowm 2

14 006 RASH OF AMBER 13 JSosmrg 911 BHbd3

15 2156 LUCKY OWL 19 IDJJ MBS LPmaB 8-11 Jf4nng18

IS 2300 HOT OFF T)C PRESS 16 RWWtater 910 AMhmIJ

17 0000 BUSH ROOTS 19 IV) C TWJb 910 FHorWl (3)16

IB 3342 MBMY8EWAD373B0tWT*y99 P Bun 19

19 000 CRAB 'N LOBSTER 82 Me J Bansden 99 KFrion5

91 Soday Goto. 7-1 Pnoy Banger. Snptalurd Lass. 91 Ueny Uemard. Weaver
George, 191 CoratK'S Legend. Poly Vann 12-1 Stardus Enrass. 14-1 toben.

3.00 HUMBBSIDE SEAHAWKS HANDICAP

(£3.236: im 100yd) (15)

1 4820 SHABAHAZ 161 (BJSHoaon 7.911 D Pears (5) 8

2 0550 EDWS CLOSE 7 (F) M Tgotate 3-96 Pftobfnwn 12

3 2122 TYRIAN PURPLE 34 (CJUPf^l F Wlnsftcnf 4-94

MHtonpfbes[7)9

4 -00Q HUSO 9 (DJ.G) P Hasam 4-94 Dltetad15

5 319- BOLD ARABH 1 A 36l (G) J SlWtfing 4-93 _ -flf*«d 14

6 3460 WHO'S TEF 8 (COFiUHEaUHbv 4-913... S Mabnry p) 5

7 4428 FUHJTWG 34_®J) M Hamnoml 4-912 Ron HBajSj 3

8 1220 COLD SH 0 WBL 79 (C J.G) J Glow 3-910 S D WBarcs (S) 11

9 1220 LAW 1 SW 00 D toMOR 8 (D.F) J Speam 999 — K Darky 10

10 6300 YOUHG 4ASON 6 (CDfAS) F Lee 9-9o — N Kennedy (5) 4

11 IOC® WATCH ICGO 8 LCDfl Bob Jones 994 NCoonortonl

12 5400 CRAIL HARfiOUH 98 (SIP Hastam 6-93— . Dean McKern 2

13 2050 PRDE OF PEfOLE 18 fCD/^) P Cafwr 991 . Date GSrson 7

14 DS4 FnaBLYPfflSUASUJN 13 («RHrtlbsheart 4-7-7

A Garb (7) 13

15 0350 DOCTOR'S RaHJY 18 (F) Me J Jordan 97-7 C Teague (7) 8
7-2 Eden's Ctose. 91 Tyrian nepte. 91 Huso. 7-1 CottSbm. 91 Whs's Tel.
10-1 LdaflSMod Junta. RooSng. i*-i ftwoft Randy. 191 otters

3.30 HUMBERSIDE LEISURE SERVICES MAIDEN

AUCTION STAKES (2-Y-O: £2.700: 7f 100yd) (IB)

0425 WW05 47 A Harrison 911 KFahn5

800 HWSHTWLL 21 (WCJMfla 99 T Lucas 8

0 B0NARME15MHtetahyB-8 MBkOilO

052 DARMGPAST29 R Boss 98 N Kennedy (S) 18

6042 LATEST HAM B M Qaiittn B-8 ._ D Hcfiaxl 2

0U0 NRAHCH BAY 11 Ma V Acotot; 9-fi A Ctritene 15

54 AVIATOfTS DREAM 15 J BUttrtm 96 P *** ' «

00 NATIVE WOfflH 11 J JbSbcih 96 MWooiM*

CYRANO DUUM Roald Thompson M J Lowe 13

0080 MOONSTRUCK BARD 64 S Woods 95 VYMntalZ

0020 SKY WISH 15 Mbs S Kafl 95 N Gomrion 11

040 IM RNER 21 U Taopkaa 6-5 PRDt*df?7

0000 SCOFFSIA 15 N Tuttt 8-3 LOtanoell17

OS JMU)56MW&sartiy92 SM*nwffl4

50 YKEST EW GRL 8 R TKBm! B-2 KterirylB

25 KLLY^ FOIY 15 J Bary 91 . J Cand 9

235 fRBHG 27 Mbs L Penal 91 — Jftratag?

00 lA0VADARE8Jja'NeU90 — SWoodl

92 Latest Flame. 9i tong. 91 WDy'i Flby. 91 Drtng PasL 11M Hn-JoL Sky
WML 13-1 Mati Beam. Une RHer. i4-i We9 End Gto. 191 uttero.

4.00 RAFHNGORA SPRINT HANDICAP

(£3,561:50 (16)

1 0205 METAL BOYS 4 (CD.F.G) H Holbshead 5-910. S Wynne (7) 2

2 0000 LUCEDEO 7 (CD.F.G) J Speariag 8-98 ABarffi(7)1

3 8300 SEAMERE 18 (B.CD/, 8 ) B Csrtadge 9-97 JLam4

4 -504 SW6M6 STAR 113 (DJ^ J Bafdjeg 99-6 PHobtaon3

5 1160 DRUMSfflGEANT14(MJ.S)JPlftes99:.0Peara(5)12

6 1010 AFRICAN CHMES 82(F) WQ-Gonnan 99-2

EmmalTGamai (3) 10

7 2361 CATHBBtS YVHi 5 (CD/.G5) M W Extaby 99-0 iSai

T Lucas 14

6 0634 ON THE EDGE 5 (Dl T Bam 4-912 VH*aday(7)11

9 453) MISDEMEANOURS SRL 16 (C0.BF.6.S) M Cunoen 4-98

D Noted 15

10 5315 MSS VAXETTE 13 (D,F^) J Sparta) 3-98 KDartey9

11 0504 PALLIUM 8 (DM) M Nanghtai 4-97. K Fate 16

12 0110 JUST BOB IT (BJLF.E) 5 hettnmJl 3-8-6 j Fortune 5

13 2130 HERE CONES A STAR 16 03JF) J Carr 4-94. . .- S Mans

14 0055 LOFT BOY 11 (D.F.6.S) J BelheK 993 — Kate Dowy (7) 13

15 0600 GLWCROFT 60 (B.D.F&S) D Ctnpnnn 97-10 .... S Wood 8

16 3450 ROCK OPERA 15 (D.F) M teugMon 4-7-9 ..._ Jdn Houston 6
4-t Lucedeo. 91 Dam Sageaol 7-1 Uheraie: Weff. Ltoi Boy, 1 O -1 Mode
meanouK GoL 12-1 Mrian Demis. kM Boys. Senea. 14 -1 emn.

4.30 SNOWY GRAY MEMORIAL HANDICAP

(£3,132: 2m 35yd) (B)

1 1112 BROCTUNE GREY 40 (D.BF.F) M&CfleKfey 99I0K Dariey 5

2 4132 COV TEl LADY 21 (F)MTemgke8 3-910 .. PRobhSon4

3 5328 AUZAR1 15 G Hmag 3-98 . . . - RP Bfaa 7

4 00-1 AVRO ANSON 158 IG) M Camacho 4-95 — NConnaii

5 4046 YORKSFKE HOLLY 116 (C0.F) M Aason 9-91 — A Promt 3

6 0820 JOHN SHAW 15 (F) J WaaaelgM 4-M2 f>Buitae2

7 4130 ESCAPE TALK 36 (OF) J Dorter 97-7 JFanmfl6

8 1633 REXY BOY 47 (D.F.G1 W Baku 97-7 _ JLomB

198 Avro Arson. 92 Btoelura Gray. 100-30 Cat Tel Lady. 7-1 Yottefcie FtoJFy.
TM Hint. 191 Hoy Boy. 20-1 tsw» T*

5.00 BURTON AGNES MAIDEN STAKES

(3-Y-O fillies: £2.215: Im II 207yd) (13)

1 06 ATAIT5 GEM 25 J Norton 911 NCoratwr

2 0 BARGA 145 W Cbv HI J Lowe 10

3 20-2 BRECON BEACONS 21 R Qartttn 911 _ DabGOSdnS

4 9® H.TARANDA15GWragg911 fftonoa(3)9

5 944 FRENCH REVOLUTION 16 P WWay 911 W Woods 6

6 2-W fiACLAL AIOQN 41 B HJS 917 . DHeffarat:

7 0- ICE WALK 312 lYJarris 917 PRobbsoa6

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Taaffe remembered in Cheltenham chase

Geisway in
line for
big-race tilt

By Richard Evans

RICHARD Hannon set off
swiftly in pursuit ot another
thousand winners when send-
ing out Geisway to win the
Blue Riband Futurity Stakes
at Sandown yesterday. .

Twenty-four hours after
notching his 1,000th winner,
the East Everieigh handler
had few worries as Pat Eddery
struck in the feature race.

After tracking Declassified
and ShebL the champion jock-
ey eased the 9-4 favourite into
the lead at the furlong-pole
before going on to win by two
lengths.

An expensive purchase by
H ann on standards — Joss
Coflins of the BBA splashed
out more than $100,000 —
Geisway is entered in the top
autumn races and w31 proba-
bly take his chance in the
Royal Lodge Stakes or the
Dewhurst Stakes.

A 59-day break since his
previous run proved benefi-
cial for Geisway who ap-
peared to have strengthened
up. “We gave him a bit of a
rest and it has worked. He
will be a kively horse next year
and wiD get ten furlongs
easily.” Hannon said

Chris Wall has had to
endure a severe bout of
seconditis this season with
more than 20 of his runners
finishin g in the runner-up
spot.

From the stands it looked
as though Wafiniu had been
pipped on die tine by Alrnuh-
tarama in the Woodchester
IMS Handicap and would
add to Wall's unfortunate
tally. For once, however, the
photo-finish decision went
Wall’s way.

“We have been second so
many times this year I have
almost got used to it," Wall
said. Walimu, who survived
two operations on a twisted
gut last summer, may now
run in the Cambridgeshire.

The Michael Roberts band-
wagon kept rolling with a
double on Jdaayel and Bold
Resolution and the champion
jockey elect is now only 23
winners short of his double
century for the season.

The modern-day record of
2D9, set by Eddery two years
ago. is still within reach of the
South African rider.

CHELTENHAM is to stage a
race in memory of Pal Taaffe,
who died in July.

The Pal Taaffe Novices’
Chase, with £1 5,000 in added
prize-money, will be run on
Saturday, December 12.

Edward Gillespie, Chelten-

ham’s managing director,
said: “We felt that Pat Taaffe's
association with Arkle and
Cheltenham was so strong
that it would be fitting to
remember him on a very high-
quality race-day.” •

Taaffe remains the most

successful Irish jockey ai Chel-
tenham, having ridden 32
winners including three Gold
Cups on Arkle from 1964 to
1966 and the 196S running
on Fort Leney. As a trainer he
sent out Captain Christy to
win the 1974 Gold Cup.

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1992

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Kent refuse
to rest on
laurels after
fine season

By Jack Barley

EDGBASTON (final day of
four): Kent (24pts) bear War-
wickshire (4pts) by an innings
and 143 runs

WITHIN a few minutes of
Richard Ellison running in
from long-off to take a mis-
timed drive from Gladstone
Small and bring Kent victory
by an innings and 143 runs
yesterday. Mark Benson, die
Kent captain, was receiving a
cheque for £23,000 from Bri-
tannic Assurance.

Barely an hour had elapsed
since Kent had taken the field.
Twenty overs, shared by their
two main spin bowlers, earned
two more wickets for Hooper
and three for Davis, and Kent
had completed a memorable
season. Apart from finishing
runners-up to Essex in the
championship. Kent were
finalists in die Benson and
Hedges Cup. quarter-finalists
in the NatWest Trophy and
sixth in the Sunday League.

Along the way they picked
up £48.000 in prize-money.
But this was less important to
Benson and Daryl Foster,
their West Australian coach,
than the team's all-round
improvement Both made it
dear that there was no room
for complacency; for although
moving from sixteenth place
in the championship to sixth
in 1991 and second this year,
the harsh fact was that they
had won nothing.

“We shall probably prove to
be the best side taken over all
forms of cricks this year,"
Benson said. “We have been
ludqr to have had no calls for
England. But individuals
have been unfortunate in not
being selected. Kent players
have not been favoured by
borderline selections.”

Foster pointed to dressing-
room harmony, die ability
Kent have shown to soore their
runs faster than others, and
the fact that Davis and
Hooper had taken more than
100 wickets between them, as
had McCagueand Igglesden,
the seam bowlers. This all-
round bowling strength and

p w l o Bt a Pts
(1) 22 11 6 5 60 6* 300

Kant (6) 23 9 3 10 60 55258

Northaits (1(0 22 8 4 10 62 58 248

Notts (4) 22 7 7 0 54 58 22A

Derbyshire (3) 22 7 6 9 47 63 222

Wanwdcs E) 22 8 8 8 55 68 219

Sussex (11) 22 6 7 9 80 61217

L^ca (16) 22 7 7 8 99 60 211

Someneip7) 22 S 4 13 6* 62 206

*Gtoucs(13) 22 6 6 10 4B 53 202

Mkttksaxpq 22 S 3 14 62 60 202

Lancs (8) 22 4 6 12 73 51 168

Suray® 22 5 7 10 56 SO 166

Glamorgan (12) 22 S 4 13 53 49 162

Hants p). 22 4 6 12 61 57162

Yorks (14) 22 4 6 12 66 52 172

■Vftircs (7) 22 3 4 15 54 85 167

Durham (-) 22 2 10 10 46 53 131

-factories abandon*! match

the scoring of quick runs
would be vital to success in
next season's four-day game,
be said.

Warwickshire's swift demise
began when Lloyd, captaining
the county for the last time,
was neady picked up at dip.
Another fine close-ui catch,
this time by Benson at silly
point, accounted for Donald;
then Osder was left stranded
and swiftfy stumped.

Munton made a better fist
than most. of playing the Kent
spinners, but provided Davis
with his fifth wicket of the
innings as Igglesden ran
round behind the bowler to
catch him. It brought Davis’s
haul to five for 41, and seven
for 79 in the match.

Apart from a few defiant
blows from Piper, Warwick-
shire showed hide fight after
that

KBfft Ftat brings 603 (T R Wart 153. M R
Benson 722. Cl Hooper 102. GRCowtfoy
88, N R Taylor 78; NM K Smih 4 far 160)
WARWICKSHIRE: Ftat Innings 289 (T A
Ltoyd 76, D A Reeve 51 ; A P Jg0eecton 5 for
91)

Second Irrkigs

A J Motes c March b Hooper 38

R G lYtttt c Beraon b Onrfi 52

OPOsUar at Marsh b Davis 25

TL Penney c Marsh b Hooper 0

D A Reeve run out 0

N M K Smih c Renting B Daris 3

*T A Lloyd cDawiab Hooper 8

A A Donald c Benson bDatt — 1

T A Murfori c rggicaden 0 Davis ^ B

IK J Piper not out — 24

G C Small c EBsonU Hooper 10

Brtraa (bj.b2._rib 1) — ;. -4

Total” -1,- ' 171

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-82, M6. 386. 466.
5-102, 6-124. 7-124, 8-129. 9-153.
BOWLMG: (gnfeaden 547-160; Bison 7 4-
21-0: FBpnTl-21-0; Fleming 40-120:
Hooper 34-5-67-4; Darts 22-641-5.
Umpires: K E Palmer end D R SheptmL

DeFreitas makes it
hot for Durham

By Peter Ball

GATESHEAD FEU (final
day of four): Lancashire
(24pts) beat Durham (6) by
ten wickets

A FINE, undefeated 80 by
Jimmy Daley in only lus
second firet-dass match could
not prevent Lancashire gain-
ing their fourth win of the
season yesterday, but it did
offer Durham a hint of opti-
mism after a chastening fust
season in the first-class game.

Already sure of finishing
bottom. Durham's tenth de-
feat only confirmed the size of
the gap still to be bridged.
Yesterday. Daley apart, their
batting again let them down
as DeFreitas produced his best
return of the season.

Perhaps he was just trying to
keep warm on a cold, wind-
swept ground at Low Fell in
front of 300 but there was no
doubting die hostility of
DeFreitas, on this occasion
encouraged by the slips’
chorus. He soon had Durham
snuggling.

With their batting fragile
since the departure of Dean
Jones, the home county need-
ed is openers to stay put
longer than the second over
when Larkins became Mar-
tin's only victim to one which
nipped back.

Parker, again a serious ob-

stacle, reached his second fifty
of the match before be played
on. DeFreitas removed both
Smith and Bainbridge to fin-
ish a morning stint with three
for 48.

White DeFreitas rested, Da-
ley. 18, settled in for his
second big innings in testing
circumstances. But when
Gtendenen was trapped by
Austin, Durham’s brittle tail
was exposed. Austin and die
returning DeFreitas took their
chance with relish.

DURHAM: Fret innings 312 (4 O
Gtendenen 78. P W G Rater 70. W Uvktos
S3, M WMMraon 5 (or 63)

Sacarwr finings

W Latins tow bMteth _24

PWGPariorbOeFratts 62

I Snwh ton b DcFiwaa is

P Bafabridge c Hegg & OeFnaias ....... 16

J A Oatiy not out .. 80

J D Gtendenen ftwr b Austn >.43

M P Boers b Austin 7

i

*D A Oavenoyc Hogg b Austin 0

SJEBrawncHoQgDOoFrwn 18

©aastfj?, fcS.rej4| _T4

TOW 271

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-57. 248. 3-102. 4-
121, 5-222, 6238. 7-239, 8-243. 9-2U.
BOilWi DsFrwns 263664-6; Mart*
164-48-1 : Wattinson 146566; Autti 15-
444-3; Banalt 7-3-186.

LANCASHIRE Ftat brings 562 M A
Wharton 189, P J Mann 133. l D Austin 58:
P Bafibrfdga 5 lor 100)

Second Imngs

M A Atherton not out 22

GO Mends not out 2

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Extras

Total (noMti)

BCWUNG: Hughes 3-1-140; Smith 266-
0; Paritar 0.1-04-0.

UmpfiMtHDHrdandJHHsmpsi**.

Essex fall to Alleyne

NOT even Graham Goodi at
his most dedicated could get
i Essex out of the hole GJouoes-

! tershire had dug for them at

: Bristol where, despite the Eng-

t land captain’s 99th century,

1 the champions went down by

I seven wickets yesterday (Geof-

1 frey Wheder writes),

j Gooch batted for over four

< hours and hit only five bound-

t aries in his 101. He and Don

t TopJey. who put on 107 in 44

1 overs for the seventh wicket,

t looked to be making die game

j safe when Alleyne had Gooch

caught He went on to make
I short work of the taD before

c scoring 73 as Gloucestershire

* readied a target of 185 with

seven overs to spare.

Allan Lamb was at tire helm

when Northamptonshire beat
Leicestershire by six wickets at
Grace Road to ensure they
would finish third in the
championship. Lamb was un-
beaten with 122 when die
NatWest Trophy winners
reached a target of 290 with
19 balls in hand.

Robert Croft cashed in as
Derbyshire chased an impos-
sible target at Cardiff, taking
six for 49 in 7.3 overs to help
Glamorgan to victory.

Another off spinner. Haxvey
Trump, brought the Notting-
hamshire inmnp m an
abrupt end with four wickets
in 14 balls at Taunton, where
Somerset, for whom Caddick
took 71 wickets m his first
season, won by an innings.

By John Woodcock

HOVE (final
(23pts) beat Yo

Sussex
ire (2) by six

Salisbury: player of year

SUSSEX finished Yorkshire off in
mid-afternoon yesterday, having
bowled them out in their second
innings for 259 and scored, some-
what uncomfortably, the 60 nms
they needed to win. They therefore
take seventh place in the chaznpkm-
drip, their best smee 1985. York-
shire, for their part, are left
languishing in the lower half of the
table for the eleventh time in 12
years.

The early loss of the rally two
batsmen, as distinct from bowlers,
Yorkshire had left settled the
match. Byas was riasskaDy yorked
by Stephenson and Salisbury^ fest-

er ball came as a mute unmanage-
able surprise to Bakey.

With Stephenson and Gkkfins
enjoying a last fling down the wind,
and Salisbury beating the bat quite
regularly from the other end, it was
ozriya matter, after that, of the time
at which Sussex won.

Salisbury did, in feet, come in far
some p unishm ent, but he Cook it
cheerfully enough, as be could wdl
affonl to do. Without his 11 wickets
at Ottltaffoid last week and his 12
here now, Sussex would never have
finished the season on such an

encouraging note.

Most counties have their own
awards. Sussex's went to Salisbury
(player of die year), Giddins (the
uncapped player to have contribut-
ed most) and Stephenson (the
players* player).

Salisbury's omission from Che

England parly to play in tafia this
winter is scarcely tes lamentable
thanGoww'sandRnlsefl’s.Itisthe
total lade of vision and imagination
drawn by the England committ ee
that is causing such despair- But
that is the price we-poy, 1 am afraid
for the game having fallen into the
hands of the professional.

. Salisbury finishes the season with
87 wickets at 28.96 apiece, more
then any leg ^pinner since lotikhab
Atom took 104 at 2836 for Surrey
in 1971. The last English kg
spinner to take more was Robin
Hobbs with 102 for Essex at 2137
in 1970. Hobbs, on average, took a
wicket every 73 overs and Intikhab
every 103. Salisbury has taken one
every 8.8 overs, and had an
accomplished henchman in
Morns, who looks a wicketkeeper
rather than a fielder with gtoves on.

When Sussex went in after lunch
and Lenham hooked tire first two
balls of an angry opening over fay
Jarvis for four. Meson must have
wondered, not for the first time,
whether tire Yorkshire captaincy
was worth the irritation. For me
next hour, though, Jarvis bowled the
fastest spell 1 have seen this season,
other than from Waqar Younts. The
ball fairly thudded into the goves of
Blakcy. who was. standing a long
way back.

Hall was caught ax dip fay Byas.
who has a noticeably good pair of
harms; Lenham was caught at long
kg and Speight gloved a bouncer to
the gully. No one remotely relished
playing Jarvis. But there was no
spading tire Sussex party, which
ended, in lieu of Anid Lang Syne,
with Colin Wells puffing Batty into
the pavilion for six.

Britannic Assurance
county championship

Roues v Essex

BRISTOL (Bra! da y of four): Gloucester-
6t*e (23m txm &sex (3 by a man
nfcMs

ESSEX first Mngt 128 (C A WaUh 7 tor
38)

Second Innings

NVKnUltcencIbBai 48

J P Stephenson b Gerard 93

JJBLewisb Bad 53

P J Prichard b Darias 22

NShaHrfcVtaafaanbQwfas 0

*G AGoocncWnckwsti Aleyne _ 101
tM A Gamhamc Vaughan bGairart it

T DTopfey c Russtab Welsh . 29

MCUottc Hodgson bAllmna 2

PMSuchcHMgambAwyne *

S JW Andrew net out 0

Extras (b 1, to 15, w I, nb 4J _21

TO (d 382

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-113. 2-168, 3-227,
4-227, 5-227, 6-268. 7-373. 8-377, 9-377.
BOWLMG: Watatl 32-6-66-1; Garrard 25-
471-2; Owfas 37-21-30-2; Baft 33-7-61-2;
Scott 15-0490; Vaughan 15441-0;
MsyTie 16.1-6254.

GLOUCESTBtSHBtE: Ftat brinm 326
MWAfcynett MG NWMOwsTf; S J
W Andrew 4 tor 58)

Second Innings

G D Hodbaon c Gamham b Andrew . 27

R J Scott c Toptey b Shahid 73

MWAlaynencXou 73

T H C Hancock C OoQ b ShaftJd 0

1ft C Russel not out 7

Extras (b 6. nb 1) 7

ToteJpwka) 187

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-67. 2-170. 3-180.
BOWUNG: M 10-2430: Andrew 8-1-39- .
1; Suck 14-1-56-0; SMrtd 5-1-22-2;
Toptoy 22-0220.

Umpires R Julro and G I Burgess.

Batting

Queffication: 6 completed brings
M I NO

Saftn HA 15 21 6

ME Waugh 16 24 7

OM Jonas H 23 7

G A Gooch 18 29 3

MW Getting — 24 38 6

PDBowrter 24 38 7

NHFsebroOter.. 12 13 7

AJLsmb 18 26 4

JswdMfiiKted.. 12 17 3

NJ Speak 22 36 3

MARosebeny_ 25 41 5

Hants v Worts

80UTHAM>TON (AW day of to ur£
Hampartre (Spts) drew Wixoesur-

KMV8MRE: Ftat tontogs 231 (R A
SnHttiST)

Second InnlngB

T CMUdetone and b ToOay —
R SM Monti CM J Weston oToley .

SDUdalbwbTblsy

R A Sntfb tow b Newport

K D James cW PC Weston

b(n>jjtei . .. .

— 21

8

15

TflW(5w«daitec)

281

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-103, 2-lia 3-114.
4-161, 5-21 S

80WUNG: Radtord 6002-0: Nmmort 12-

0: □'OSveira

3-22-1;

22.1-204*1;

1-000; LampiC

160400;

15-3-36-3; Leetherdate

HQrts 20-100.

W U BC feS l ERaW Rfc Ftat filings 228
lor 8 dec ^

Second tontogs

•t SCuta tom b Mental 3

WPCWeetonb Conor 36

D A LMBtertitatc&feb Turner 11

D B ITOfiora c Connor b Tumcr 2

IS J Rhodes c James b Marehal __ 107

SRLanvttstAymesbUdal 69

N V Radrad not our — 15

PJ Newport iui out

M J Weston not out
Extras (b 1. to 7. nb 2),
Total (7wkta)

0

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JO
254

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-4, 2-31, 607. 4-7D,
5236.6240,7-244.

BOWUNG: Connor 14-1-30-1: Martel
13-1-51-2 lAU 22404-1; Timer 166-
62-2

Umpfeec B Dudtonon antfft CTolcharcL

Surrey v Middlesex

THE OVAL

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WKMLESEX: Ftat Innings 441 M A
Rosabeny 12a MR Ra ni p i te am HTJD
Can- 1 14; R E B^non 5 tor 1 17)

Second finings

ABabHeUbnotout 7

*MW Gatling not out

Total (no wto dec)

25

0

32

B0WUNG£ Stewart 50-160; 0 M WaRl 4-
0-16-0. Thorpe 04660:

SURREY: Ftat firings 141 tor 3 dec (A J
Swat 51; BOWUNG: Johnson 62-25-1;
Fraser 10-140-1; Entourey 146250;
Tufrrt 144-21-0; WbeAas 6628-1).
Second tonkigs

D J Bcfcnel st &o«m b Entouey 67

D M Ward c Emburey b Werfras 34

G P Thorpe st Brwsi b Tutnetl 13

*1AJ Stewart at BtDMibTutnel 62

M A Lynch c Johnson bTulnel 25

A D Brcvm c RsmaraJash b Tutoel _ 34
MABi^BrstBrewnbEmburw — 47

R E Bryson c Rosebany bTirtnajf 24

IWenfruiout ; 0

NM Kendrick not orf 0

JBcSngnotout - 0

Baras (b lib 4, wl. cb3) 9

325

Total (Bwkta)

FML OF WICKETS; 1-56. 263. 3-153, 4-
200, 5-229, 8-269, 761& 6625, 6625.
BOWUNG: Riser 156-350; Johnson 6-
0450; Embuey 306-J042 Tutoef 344-
1305; We a h aa 53-5-1.

Umpk es. J C D aktoi a lone and M J

Lsfes v Nortbants

t a ee SFBI (total dm at tau): North-
aif t oialte (23pti) bate Letoasteratwe
(5) bystotfidOBB •
LBCESTBttWRE: first toringi 352 (B

L Patter cSnapeb
B F SmlOi not out _
tPAMaonntrtoirt.

F Smith 86. T J Boon 81 . W K M Benjamin
71)

Second finings

T J Boon c Rtotey b Curran 97

_*N E ariera cLoye b Curran — 0

J J Whftaka tow b Cfipel .29

3D ft Berman bCapSZ. 7

48

30

18

Etiraa (b 2. b 9, w 1. nb 1) 13

Total (BwWsdec^ ...» ! 240

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-6,2-71,682 4-16&
5202.

BOWUNG: Twtor 12-1-600; Cunan 21-6-
562; PertwSy 11-1-860; Capel 52-19-
& Snapa 17-5420; Cook 8-lS-1.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE: Ftat Imngs
303 far 7 dec (R J Qmey 167)

Second Innings

A Forrtoem b Mm S

MB Low teNtanb Potter 40

H J Delay c aU> b Parsons 27

*AJ Lento nrt out 122

KM Curran cParemb Pooer 52

ALPanbeteyrataut- - 17

Extras (b1Q.blO.w1.nb2) 23

Total ^irlte) 290

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-1& 687. 3-114, 4-
249.

BOWUNG: MW« 13-1-52-1; Mutaly 126-
460: Banfamto 160416; PSreons 11-1-
46-1: Potter 205-3-85-2. .

Umpires: D 0 Oeiaar and B Laadbeetar.

6tamvDevbys

CARDIFF (final day at
(20pia) bate Derbyshire (4) by 63 tune

GLAMORGAN: ftat fanfatt 307 A V A
Hotadt 85. M P Meynwd 67. S P Janies
52; R W Sladcfin 4 tor 102)

Second finfiga tadatad
DBHYMHEr Ftat finings torftebd

Second firings

tP D BbwtorcMsteon b Thomas 6

J EMotmbDeie 46

TJGCGQQrancMaaonbOala — 4t

*KJ Barnett an out 19

A E Warner b Croft 29

FAGfWttibCroft - - 5

TA.TVreatscWtettib Crofl — „ — 24

CJ Adams cflfchwdab Croft 16

AWRtohanJKmoWattdnbCraft — 5

RWStadGnb Graft 39

0 H Mortsraan not out 6

Extras (fa 8. W 1) ;. .J_

Total 244

FAULOF VACKETS: 1-13. 2-74. 3-112. 4-
138, 5-151.6-156. 7-176. 8496. 9-199.
BOWLING: WaMn 136-460; Thornes 4-
021-1; Barwick 60-150: Dele 9-1292;
Cottay 2-0-17-0; Mawr«rd 46650; Ooft
7.6049-6. .

Umpires: J H Hants and S J Meyer.

Sussex v Yorks

HOVE (Oral day of tour): Sussex (23pts)
beef Votah*® fc) by sbt nfctat?

YORKSHIRE: First finings 232 (C Whfte
tt 53;TD K Satebury 7

71 natOUt,8AKslett53;
tor 54}

Second firings

*M □ Monqo b GkMlns
S A Kefiett b Salsbuty

A AMetcaiabSaKteuy

C White c Greenfield b GidcSns
tR J Btekoy b!
b i

D Byes
PWJai

Jervis tow bGUdtoe

P Carrick bw b Salsbury

PJ>Wttoy at Moores bsalitouy .

JO Betty c Moores bGtddfis

M A Rooneon not out

Extras ftj 4, to 1 1 , w 1 , nb 8)
Total

SO
36
10
- 0
28
24
IB
23

23
18

- 5

24

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-06. 2-90, 3-90. 4-
106. 5152, 6170, 7-195, 6236. 9237.
BOWUNG: Stephen s on 19-1-57-1;
Gkkfins 23-9-654; C M VMs 62-17-0;

Lenham 61-21-0; Doneton 4-4-00; Sals-
buy 30-9-844.

SUSSEX: ftat tarings 432 (N J Lenham
137. J WHaflSO; P /HafOay 8 tor Hi)
SBCQnd finings

N J LaitoamcKaflatt bJarvte 20

J W Hale Ms b Jarvis.. 7

KGreenflenbwbJanrta 7

■A P Wale not ou 13

MPSpataMcMetceitobJtevi9 2

CMWWbnotout — - 11

Bdns(nbi) - - 1

Total (4 wtets) B1

FAU. OF WICKETS: 124. 631. 326. 442.
BOWUNG: Jarvfi 162274; Hartley 2-0-
8-0; Bally 652-25-0; Canick 1 -0-1-0.
UmptaB: N T Pfews end G A StfcWay.

Somerset v Nolls

TAUNTON (final day te tour): Somerset
(24pts) beet Nottinghamshire (4) by an
Innings and 163 ana
NOrTtNOHAMSWRE: First hninga 265
(G F Archer 83 not out. R T Robinson 74)
Segcndtnritoga

P R Pofiard rnn out 42

MSaxtebjrcRoeeb Trump — 64

*R T ftartson 0 Rosa 0

M A Oawtoyb Caddick 9

tS Brantoefi b Malandar 6

G F Archer c Ltehwefl b Caddck 0

CC Lattes tow bCadcfcft 15

K P Evans not out — . — 23

D B Panrwtt fawb Trump 6

RAPIdccendfaTiufip 6

JAAflordbTrump ;. 0

Boras (b 4. fa 7. r* 6) — ._17

ToW 188

FALL OF. WCKSTS: 1-76. 2-78, 3-96. 4-
104; 6105. 6130. 7-170. 6178. 6186
BOWUNG: Cedtfick 22421-3: Mafia ndor
16631-1; Trump 22-6534; Rose 134-
32-1.

BOUBRBET: Ftat tailntp 618 far 7 dee
51 J Harden 187. C j Wi 125. R J
tuner 101; Ewans 4 for 96)

Umpkea: O J Constant and G Sharp. .

NFTaytar 21 35

GArtcfc 17 27

MD Moron 19 28

TLPamey 16 24

KJ Barnett 19 29

toamanHiFHaq 15 21

MAAttrerton — 21 37 6

GDUoyd a 37 10

G P Thorpe 24 41 4

VPTeny 11 17 2

TS Curia 23 41 5

RJ Harden. 20 33 S

TCMBdWtm-. 24 40 4

ADBitMn. 11 16 1

RJBaBey 23 39 7

a p welt 22 35 5

TRWard 21 37 3

C White. Z— 19 a 8

GF Archer 7 13 3

CL Hooper 21 32 4

D I Gower 20 33 7

H Morris 23 37 3

PACWtoy 20 28 6

J J B Lems 13 20 .4

SRTendL*ar... 16 25 2

RJBIakay 21 32 9

P Johnson *19 29 4

□ L Haynes 20 36 2

JPCrmtoy 17 29 3

MR Benson 21 35 2

Shoafa Mah*d._ 12 21 4
P8ainbneg8 — 17 30 9

AFordhem 23 41 2

J P Stephenson. 21 37 5

PJ Prichard. 23 38 4

BCBroed 14 27 3

Rama Raja 16 26 2

M A Lynch 23 40 6 1466

RC Russet 20 34 11

AanwrSatori — 17 20 2

TM Moody ‘11 19 2

AJSKmmt 19 33 4

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DR tangle 16 17 5

A Date 22 33 5

JEMottb 23 33 0

CJ Adame 23 33 6

CL Cams „„ 21 30 6

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R R Montgomerie. 9 15 3

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MSexefay 8 13 1

PNWeews — 17 21 7

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Salim and Walsh are top

SALIM Malik, the Pakistani
batsman, and’ Courtney
Walsh, of Gloucestershire and
West Indies, share top lulling
in the final averages for the
1992 cricket season, which
finished yesterday (Manas
Williams writes).

Salirarfouith last year when
he honed his skills with Essex,
finished narrowly ahead of
this year's Essex overseas play-
er, Mark Waugh, with Gra-
ham Goodi. captain of the
county champions, in fourth
place.

Rosebeny (Middlesex) and
Bowler (Derbyshire} were joint
leading . runmakezs . with.
2*044;. Walsh was leading ^
wicket-taker with 92r '’five*'
ahead of Salisbury (Sussex),
who took 23 wickets in the
final two matches of the
season.

Among the afl-nxmdeis
Lewis ^Leicestershire). Cairns
(Nottinghamshire), Croft
(Glamorgan) and Curran
(Northamptonshire) complet-
ed the double of 500 runs and
50 wickets.

ComhB T«M Mites: Pakistan beat . '.
England, 2-1 (2 matches t*wm): '
Texaco Trophy: England beet
.ftiwaan, frj - t

c h atnpfcx^^ CTiS ^^ii
NrfWest Trophy: Nortarnptonshlre.
Benson and Hedge® Cup: Hamp-
shire. '

Sunday league: MUdesex.

Rapid Crteketfine second XI
championship: Stray.

Bain Cterkson T rophy: Surrey .

Minor counties championship:
St a ff o r d shi re .

Hoft Cup: Devon.

National dub championship: Bristol

Opttmfebr.

Rottvnans vfaage champiornMp:
HursteyPaik.

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D M Ward 18

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DJ Bfitiwl 24

A J Motes — : 23
TjGO’Gksman 24

SJ Rhodes 24

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D W Randal 19

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NV Knight-.— 20
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SPORT 31

FOOTBALL

MICHAEL POWELL

Domestic demands

. M* :

threaten Leeds

chances in Europe

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From Stuart Jones, football correspondent, stuttgart

THE health of English foot-

ball win again be put to the test
in the first round of the
European Cup here tonight.
As the nation’s strongest side
last season. Leeds United must
question the common diagno-
sis that the domestic game is
growing weaker.

Johann Cruyff, one of the
few to have claimed the trophy
both as a player and a manag-
er. has added his respected
voice to those convinced that
England can no longer win a
dub competition h once domi-
nated. The reasons are fixture
congestion and the style of
play it promotes.

“On the continent, they can
it the English disease.” How-
ard Wilkinson, the Leeds
manager, said yesterday. “By
that, they are not talking about
the bubonic plague. Every-
body knows we play too many
games and it is a very serious
issue which nobody seems to
be doing anything about

“Not bang able to compete

in Europe on equal terms is
bad enough but it goes down
to the very roots of our game
The physical demands are so

bad' minutes titan usual tills
season and, in Wilkinson’s
opinion, have also suffered
from more than the odd

much greater nowadays, espe- - awkward bounce. Any error in
oally with the back-pass rule tonight’s first leg against VfB

eliminating breaks in the ac-
tion, and players need longer
to recover.”

Leeds coped with the intol-
erable strain better than any-
one but they were spared extra
rigours last season.
Manchester United knocked
them out of both the FA Cup
and Rumbdows Cup in Janu-
ary to do their rivals
ultimatelya decisive favour in
the championship.

Even more ironically, the
reward for Leeds is to enter a
knockout tournament which is
the speciality of neither their
team nor their manager. “I’m

Stuttgart need nor necessarily
be conclusive but the defence
may. in any case, be strength-
ened t»y the recall of Dorigo —
the victim of a stomach virus
over the weekend. The right
flank could Sill be vulnerable.
Newsome is an' inadequate
full bade and Wilkinson may
be tempted to bring in
Rocastle there for his debut
Apart from .Cantona.
Rocastle is the only other
member of the squad to have
played in Europe in the last
five years. Although experi-
ence is indisputably a help,
Wilkinson dawns that naivety

Jonny Searie, left, and his brother. Greg, Britain’s Olympic coxed pairs champions, took to a dragonboat yesterday in the build-up to
the Wodd Corporate Games in London from September 26 to October 4. Dragonboat racing is one of 22 sports being contested

RUGBY LEAGUE

not a cup man.” Wilkinson * can be equally beneficial,
admitted. “I don’t have that * “Maybe it is better to be wide-
sort of mentality. One bad eyed and reckless.” he said.

minute, one awkward bounce
and you are out” '

Leeds have endured more

Villa claim £ 1 m owing
from Platt’s transfer

By Chris Moore

ASTON Villa were in contact
with Uefa last night over
claims they are still owed £1
million by the Italian dub,
Bari, following the move of
David Platt to Juventus.

Included in the British
record £5.5 million transfer
deal that took Platt foom Villa
to Bari in July 1991 was a
clause guaranteeing Villa 50
per cent of any sell-on profit
When Plan left Bari for
Juventus during the summer,
the move was recorded in Italy
as being worth £7-8 million.
Villa believe they are entitled
to at least £1 million as then-
share of Bari's profit
Bari claim they did not
make any profit because they

for him and the argument
centres on the makeweight
involved in the deal, the
Juventus player, Angelo
Alessio. He was valued at
around £2 million and joined
Bari as part of the transfer.

“There’s a lot of money at
stake,” Steve Stride, the Villa
secretary, said. “We've sent the
relevant documents to Uefa
and await their response.”

Platt is expected to make his
competitive debut for Juventus
in their Uefa Cup. first-round

Strachan shares the view.
He has not played in Europe
since Manchester United's de-
feat by Videoton in the Uefa
Cup seven years ago. “That
was so long ago that this will
be a new experience.” the Scot
aged 36. said. “For me this is
like Disneyland, a fantasy.”

Stuttgart are no more accus-
tomed to performing on the
most glamorous stage. Their
only previous appearance in
the European Cup could not
have been briefer. The Bulgar-
ians of Levski Spartak
knocked them out in the
opening round in 1984.
Wilkinson still holds the Ger-
mans in high regard although
three key players are doubtful.
Buck is unlikely to take his
place in midfield because of a
thigh strain and a knee injury
threatens the German inter-
national Fromzeck. His fel-
low defender. Schaefer, is

Davies says amateur
code now lucrative

By Our Sports Staff

tie against Anorthosis Fama- . troubled by a leg muscle.

gusta,.of Cyprus, tonight . ■
Barcelona, the European
champions, play Viking Sta-
vanger. of Norway, while Real
Madrid visit Timisoara, of

sold Platt for what they paid ^ Romania^in the Uefa Cup. .. , , champions.”,

"This is a meaty tie,” Wil-
kinson said, “and our street
credibility will go up if we beat
them. There are no cheap
victories when you play their

By Louise Taylor

JONATHAN Davies, the for-
I mer Wales rugby union inter-
national has said he would
not have switched to rugby
league had he enjoyed the
benefits now openly available
to rugby union players.

Davies, now a Widnes play-
er, said in an interview: “In
the situation the English
[union] players are in now, 1
wouldn’t have gone to league
because they are at the peak of
their game and are very, very
marketable. With the laws
bong relaxed and the Wodd
Cup coming along in South
Africa, there is a lot more
money to be made in rugby
union.”

Davies also suggested that
the amateur code had the
more professional: .attitude.
“Rugby league is reaUy so far
behind union in flatting and
fitness tests, you wouldn’t
believe it When I first went to
rugby league three years ago
:t: 'wer Were doing physiol '
rests at Widnes that I'd done
as a-2 1-year-old in Wales.;

dietary preparation 1 ;
and expert assistance is even
more professional in union

regret his decision to join
Widnes. But Davies said: “I

COUN Foster is today poised
to return to Nottingham For-
est in a £400,000 transfer
from West Ham United- Fos-
ter, 28, is expected to sign ai
the City Ground this morning
after discussing personal
terras with Brian Clough, tire
Forest manager.

With Forest bottom of the
Premier League and haring
lost their last six games, it is.
the worst start to a season
Gough has experienced in bis
managerial career.

He is hoping the 6ft 4in
central defender will help fill
the breach left by Des Walker's
departure for Italy. Ron
Fenton. Gough’s assistant,
said yesterday. “Having Colin

here would give us more
competition in an area of toe
field where everyone knows we
have had a problem this
season.”

Foster has been a regular in
toe West Ham first team for
the past three seasons — Lou
Macari. the then Upton Park
manager, paid £750,000' for
him in 1989.

The money from Foster’s
return to Forest will enable
Billy Bonds, the present West
Ham manager, to buy John
Byrne, the Sunderland
forward-

in the unlikely event of
Foster failing to agree a con-
tract with Gough. Chelsea —
who have lost Paul Elliott with

a long-term knee ligament
injury — might be keen to talk
to the centre half.

Chelsea are aiming to re-
place Dave Beasant their
goalkeeper, by the weekend
and are after Les Sealey. of
Aston Villa.

Sealey. 35. is the under-
study to Nigel Spink at Villa
Park and has also played for
Coventry City. Luton Town
and Manchester United.

Ron Atkinson, the Vflla
manager, said: “There has
been an enquiry about Les
from Chelsea.”

Craig Short is due to have
his £2.7 million transfer from
Notts County to Blackburn
Rovers confirmed today.

POLO

Santa chopped down

THE tournament for the
Guards Club’s autumn league
continued at Smith's Lawn
yesterday with toe match be-
tween Chop ’n' Santa (re-
ceived HO and Palmera, who
won 6-3*2 (John Watson
writes).

A couple of penalty conver-
sions from Palmera's No. 3,
Derek Reid, pur paid to Chop
'n' Santa’s handicap advan-
tage in the first chukka. There-
after, Palmera's superiority

was displayed in their close
integration, in Chop ’n’ San-
ta’s tendency to cross the line,
and in Reid’s remarkably
consistent accuracy in front of
goal

In toe second match, Azurra
beat Lamboume 7-4*2.

SARACENS: 1. T Slflkemire (3): 2. R
Matthews (5); 3. D Red (6); beck.
J Green- AfTnytage (1).

CHOP -N- SANTA: 1 , W Bond (1); Z. M
Amoore (4). 3. H Famandez-Uorerie (7):
back. B Momson (2).

AZURRA: 1. C Hyde (0); 2, M Zmat m ano
(B): 3. A Seavil (5): beck. A Parous).

LAM BOURNE: i. K DMton 111: 2. A Pam*
151. 3. R Panto (61: bet*. J Seatro* m.

SPORT iNSBIEF , c ■ , - V

Bonus prize
for British

Two teams travel

winner

If a British driver wins this
year's Lombard RAC Rally he
will pick up a special one-off
bonus prize of £100.000. The
award celebrates the 1 9th and
final year of Lombard's spons-
orship of the event. The last
Briton to win was Roger Clark
in 1976.

Two drivers who have a
strong chance are Colin
McRae and Malcolm Wilson.

Petanque: Britain has sent
two teams to the men's world
championships starting in
Aosta tomorrow hoping for a

place in the top 16.

TEAMS: GB 1: M Kror. A Aka 0 Mfcs#.
GB £ L Jamieson. B Scott. S BH

Professionals hoping
to find bliss in Bled

FOOTBALL

By Patricia Davies

Oval’s line-up

Cricket: Viv Richards; Alec
Stewart, Mike Gatting and
Curtly Ambrose are among
the players lined up for the
first six-a-side county champ-
ionship at toe Oval tomorrow.

Bryant again

Bowls: The former world
champion. David Bryant,
reached the semi-finals of toe
EBA over-55 singles champ-
ionship when he beat Alec
Farrow 21-19 at Welling-
borough yesterday.

Beattie joins up

Motor cyding: The Rothmans
Honda team have recruited
Daryl Beattie, of Australia, to
race in next year’s 500cc
grand prix series following the
retirement of the former worid
champion. Wayne Gardner.
Beattie, aged 21, will join his
fellow Queenslander, Michael
Doohan.

Giants move

Basketball: Manchester
Giants are ready to move to
the Armitage centre.
Fallowfield. It will be their
third home court in the last
year.

Leetch gets rich

Indurain’s tour

Cycling: Miguel Jndurain. of
Spain, won toe Tour of Catar

Ice hockey: Brian Leetch
joined the National Hockey
League's elite when he signed
with the New York Rangers
for a reported $ 1 8 million over
seven years. The contract puts
him in toe same financial
company as Gretzky,
Lemieux, Lindros and
Messier.

Spain, won toe Tour of Catar
Ionia yesterday.

Muster out

More seats

Rugby union: A £350.000
stand extension providing
700 more seats is to be built at
Kings holm. Gloucester.

Tennis: Thomas Muster. Aus-
tria’s leading player, said he
would not play in tile first
round tie against Canada in
two weeks’ time. He aid he
had lost his motivation.

RONAN Rafferty, an Irish-
man with a contrary side to
him. used to have a typically
offbeat answer to the oft-asked
question: “Whafs your favour-
ite golf course?”

Not for Rafferty the Augus-
tas. Pine Valleys or Sunning-
dales of this world. “Bled,” he
would reply, a touch
eni gmairialiy. Bled? Where on
earth is Bled?

It is where it has always
been, certainly geographically,
in Alpine country just over the
border from Austria, dose to
Italy, sharing a border with
Hungary. I Is problem is that it
is in Slovenia, which used to
be part of Yugoslavia but is
now an independent state,
with a British ambassador.

Bled is a peaceful place.
idyflicaBy situated on a lake,
overlooked by a castle and
surrounded by the Julian Alps
and toe Karavanke moun-
tains, but with war raging
further south, visitors have
been inclined to stay away.

Golf, it is hoped, will help
change all that with more
people coming to share
Rafferty's opinion, for Bled is
preparing itself for the arrival
of the Women Professional
Golfers’ European tour.

Marko Boric, manager of
Bled golf and country dub
(which was first opened in
1938 and revitalised in the
early 70s by Donald
Harradine. the Swiss-based
English designer), is looking
forward to welcoming the
playera to toe Slovenian Open

from October 9-1 1. “We ex-
pert a lot of this event” he
said.

“We have 24 tournaments this

UEFA CUP: Feet round, first leg: Ftoreru
(Mala) 0, Borussre Dortmund 1. Pram
RsykjavkQ. Kaiserslautern 3
NEVILLE OVENDEN COMBINATION:
First division: Arsenal 1 . Crystal Palace 1
LEAGUE OF WALES: Corrected results:
Sanmtey: Haverfordwest 4, ■ Coman's
Quay ft Ltandnt 1. Abergavenny i.

Late results on Monday

year but this is the biggest and
I hope toe d layers will like toe

I hope toe players warlike toe
course — it is very traditional
and naturaL”

Work has already started on
a second 18-hole course, also

designed by Harradine — who

is over 90 — and there are
plans for a hotel with 80
bedrooms and a smart new
dubhouse, finance permit-
ting. The present one, a tradi-
tional Slovenian design, will
remain because Boltic wants
toe new development to keep
the essential flavour of toe
place, toe reason players fall in
love with it

“We want to tiy and keep It
calm and peaceful,” he said,
“somewhere where there is no
noise and people feel comfort-
able. 1 think golf is written in
the skin of toe Slovenians. We
are a calm people and golf is a
calm game, a soft game.”

The setting is certainly
soothing, with spectacular
views of toe mountains, al-
though toe condition of the
course has suffered because of
an unusually hot summer.

The women professionals
would do well not to complain,
however, for toeiis is a near-
evangelical mission. There is a
painting of dub-wielding
cherubs in the dubhouse din-
ing room and that is almost
how the WPGET is seen here:
as a band of golfing angels
come to help Slovenia.

PREMtER LEAGUE- Cowroy i. Totten-
ham o

NEVILLE OVENOEN COMBINATION
Chelsea 5, Portsmouth i
DtADORA LEAGUE Premier dMSon:
Boanor 0. Windsor and Eton 1 Second
dftsioa- Maiden Vale 2 Saffron Watden 0.
HFS LOANS LEAGUE Fins division:
Cunon AsNon 1. Faratey Cetoc t : GuiGstey
2, Bridtroton Town 2. Wortreap 0.
Eastwood!

REPRESENTATIVE MATCH. Carshabon 3.
British Army V

AMERICAN FOOTBALL

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: Marti
Ddphre 77, Oewland Browns 23.

BADMINTON

WORLD GRAND PRtX RANKINGS: Men:

1.T-S LauWsen (Den). 755, 2. Wu Wentai
(China]. 695:3. A Whmaia Jndol. 670. 4. P-
E Hoyer- Larsen (Deni. 605: 5. Lu Jur
(Cnm). 620: aqua a F PBrmadi (Indo) and
Kkn Hat Kvun (S Kcr). 505. 8. R Sidek (Mai) ,
490: equal 9. 2 Jtenhua (Otna) and Lee
Kwang Jtn JS Kor). <40 women: l. Tang
Jtuhong (China). 940; 2. Humg Ho
(China], 560. 3. Ye Zhaoyng (ChhS). 570:
4. Lee Heung Soon (S Kor). 566. 5. Barg
Soo Hyun <S to), 54ft fi. S
Kusumawardhari Undo), 465; 7. L
Maaiuasrxi (Svre). 460; 0, Y Santoso
.(ir3ol. 430: equal 0. ERytofttna lOS) and 5
Susanti (Mo). 370.

BASEBALL

NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh Prases 5,
Si Louis Carinate 4 (10 innrtgs); Rtitedel-

ptia PhUes 6, Mcrtreal E*x* 2; New York
Mels 10, Chicago Cite 0. Houston Astros
5, Sat Francisco Giants 0; Los Angela
Docigere 5. San Diego Padres 4 (ii Inns).

AMERCAN LEAGUE Oateard Intflans 2.
Toronto Bk» Jays i. BaUmore Orioles 2.
Kansas dry Royals 1. Mteaukae Brewers
6, Boston RsaSovO: Oakland Athletics 3.
Mmasota Twins 2, Chicago Whte Scot 8.
New Yorii Yankees 6.

BOXING

IDS ANGHEE WBC MM ftywetgm tttle:
Humberto Gonzalez (Mm) to Napa
Kiatwanchai ftha). 2nd mg.

GOLF

Forsbrand does the double

By Mel Webb

than league This is especially
true at international level.”

Davies gave his opinions
alongside Jeremy Guscott, the
England rugby union centre,
in this week's issue of Sports
Quarterly magazine. He
emphasised that he did not

Widnes. But Davies said: “I
can’t see any difference be-
tween union and league now-
adays except that [in leaguel
we get paid openly."

Guscott said: ”1 don’t think
toe game would change that
much if rugby union were to
turn professional Everything
that happens is always within
the regulations. For example,
if someone went to a dub and
said, ‘How are you attracting
these jilayers, because there
have been rumours they are
receheng payment’, toe dub
can say’No. they are receiving
expenses’.

□ Gary Connolly, the St Hel-
ens centre, has! been added to
•a lengthening Great Britain
casualty hst after the reoir-
ndfttie' of' afl tinkle ligament
injury, which will sideline him
• for three weeks.

ANDERS Forsbrand main-
tained toe form that has made
him just about the only credi-
ble challenger to Nick Faldo at
the top of this season’s Euro-
pean order of merit by win-
ning the Equity and Law
Challenge at Royal Mid-
Surrey yesterday.

By gathering 316 birdies
and ! 1 eagles in 2 1 European
Tour events. Forsbrand had
already won £25.000 for head-
ing the nine-month qualifying
table in the revised Stableford
format of the competition. In
scoring 20 points from toe 54
holes of toe final shoot-out he
pocketed another £25.000 —
toe first time in toe event’s six-
year history that toe same
player has won both sections.

The composite course at
Royal Mid-Surrey, already
short enough at 5 .69 8 yards to
offer birdie chances at nearly
every hole, was reduced at
times to little more than a
pitch-and-putt layout for toe
big-hitting Forsbrand.

The Swede, who won by
three points from Russell
Claydon. with Robert Allenby.
of Australia, a point further
back, had collected seven
points in the morning round
after being a touch miffed that
he had picked up no more
than fixe in the first round.

The lean and laconic
Forsbrand started well
enough after lunch with bird-
ies at the 2nd. 4to and 7rh, but
a gentle afternoon stroll
turned into a headlong flight
into toe welcoming arms of his
bank manager with a royal
patch just after toe turn. He
birdied toe 10th with a little
chip to 1 5 feet and repeated
toe trick on the next hole after
a drive and an eight-iron out
of toe rough to 20 feet

The trusty eight-iron contin-
ued to work toe oracle for him
on toe 12th, where he con-
jured up his third consecutive
birdie by pitching to three feet.

At that point several players
were still in contention, but

Fursbnmd, who masks a fierce
determination with a sleepy
public face that fools nobody
who knows him, settled the
argument when he brought
his heavy artillery to bear on
the I3to. a 2 6 5 -yard leaser of
a par four.

For some it was an iron and
a chip; for this man no more
than a solid driver. He put his
tee shot to 1 5 feet and sank (he
pun for an eagle and two
points.

“It was fun.” he said. At
£25,000 for two days' work, it
would be.

THRS-ROUND SCORES (GB dnd lie
unless uaiedl. 20: A Forsbfand iSmc-l
5pls, 7. 6 17: R Ctaydon. 7. 3, 7 1& R

Allenby IAu&). 9. 1. 6 15: M Mouland. 5 6.
4; M Madionzto. 7. 5, 3 14: B Mafcbbank.
5.6.3 13: P La*nf, 4. 3. 6. P Hall. 2. 6. 5. D
Griord, 6 2. 5 12: D Clarke. 3. A. 5. P
BroaAunl. 3. 5. 4. M GOK. 5. 2, 5 11: J
Townsend (US). 3. 6. 2: S Bold. 3. X 5. R
Chapman, 7. 3. 1: G Tuner. 8. 1. 2 10: C
Mason. 3. 1. 6. V Smgh (Fiji). 4. 2. 4 9: G
Rat#). 2. 2 5. DR Jones, a 4 . 2 » Lee. 3 3.
3. P Wrton. 4. 2, 3. J SewcH 4. t, 4. J
Robson. 4. 3 . 2 fl WInerfesto. 4. 3. 2. 7: P
Baker. 3.0. 4. GJ Brand. 3. 3.1 6: R Banal.
5.0.1 5; B Lane. 2. 1.2. Dlsq:D Cooper. P
Senior (Aus)

(Ipl (or bnfes. 2 pa lor eaqies: equal
senes separated by number of pus )

SQUASH RACKETS

England set store by new guard

By Colin McQuillan

ENGLAND'S defence of toe
women's world team champ-
ionship will depend heavily
upon toe new guard in Van-
couver next month. The
Squash Rackets Association
yesterday selected Cassandra
Jackman. 1 9. toe world junior
champion from Norfolk, and
Sue Wright. 22. toe national
champion frqm Kent for its
four-woman squad.

Marline Le Moignan. 29.
the Guernsey left-hander who
has been central to England’s
continuous team success since
1985. wQl lead toe squad as
toe England No. 1 and world

No. 2. But her long-time
Guernsey rival, lisa Opie. also
29. and a former British Open
champion, is likely to be
playing fourth string behind
toe two youngsters.

While toe women are play-
ing mainly for prestige in
Vancouver. Peter Marshall,
toe men’s national champion,
will be competing at
Edgbaston Priory in Birming-
ham for a slice of toe £14.500
prize fond on offer to a four-
man field in toe Inter World
Squash Challenge. His oppo-
nents wiD be Jansher Khan.
Chris Dittmar and Rodney

Martin, toe three top seeds for
next week's worid open
championship in Johannes-
burg.

ENGLAND WOMEN’S SQUAD; M Le
Moignan (Hampstwe). C Jackman jto-
folk). S Wrfgts (Km). L Opie iHampstorel
Manager A Cowe

□ England's men break new
ground when they play a series
of three internationals in
South Africa, starting later this
month. Peter Marshall. Si-
mon Parke. Chris Walker and
Phil Whitlock will represent
England in toe games at
Durban. East London and
Cape Town between Septem-
ber 28 and October 3.

FOR THE RECORD

BOWLS

EQUESTRIANISM

WELLINGBOROUGH: EBA national cw-
55 singles championship: Quarter-finals:
Merc sbrtea: D J Bryam (Somerael) b» A
Farrow (Noilok). n-19; w Francs iHans)
bl G Riatge (Sussex). 21-15. Pairs: W Gee

CALGARY. Canada: Spruce Meadows
masters grand prOc i.jwtaatar. Hender-
son Garmon (GB) 2. J Lansmk.
Optebsurs Bjano iHolil

and D Lewis (Bucks) bt J Rose and T Moss
(Essex). 24-15. J Parcel and L F«her
(Devon) bt K ManOerson ana R WiiksBon

iHampstvB). 28-25 Women: Singles: J
Woodrutt (Wnsfrrei bt S Taylor (Cmber-

tand). 21-18: H Tucker (Berkshire) W R
WTkes (Worcestershire), ?1-fi Pairs: B
Smeh and B Wnskrt (Berkshire) W M Cotes
and M Bryam (Surtok). 23-1 7. H Mortey and
J Foster (Yorkshre) M WaJdey and O Parr
(Devon). 32-11

CYCLING

TOUR OF CATALONIA: Sixth stage
(153j3on. 95 anew i.TRonnmgef (Swflz).
4hr 9m n 9B8C. Z A Martin (Sp). at Scbc. 3.
M Induan (Sp). same time. 4. F Echave
ffip). a) 42. 5, M Farfan iCofl, 46. 6. E
Breufctrt. (Hon, 1.04. Ovend: i. rnduran.
2020-44; 2 , Arranger, a) I9sec: 3. Martin.
1:16; 4. Bwtfonk. V-27; 5. J-F Bemad (Fr).
1-47; 6. F Ecftave (Sp). 1 51

BRISTOL AND CUFTON: VauxhaS Chi)
Team Classic W«s»m regional Anal'. 283’
Bristol and CWon <D Mann 70, C Maim 71. J
Berry 71. S F«t 71} 291 Rose FW 292:
Lydney 294: Worcester 297 Hagtey. 300:
East Devon 301: Bunham and Barov*
307. Wes Berks. Queen s Park. 308:
stwtey 309: Walmley 310: Thurtestone
3Jt; Wtea wars 314; Praa Sanaa 315: Sr
Melton 325: Tcmrtglon 286: C Cooper.
73. 74 72 F8. P Aangar. 71. 73. 70. 72. C
Sbarge. 73. GB. 70. 74

GOLF FOUNDATION SCHOOLS TEAM
CHAMPIONSHIP: Searon Career 238:
Barnard Castle (S Taytr 81. L Inman 78. J
McNafy 77) 242: EogtecHH 244: NonhaF
brrar Grammar IndMOuafc Armstrong
(Eggiesckfl) CardHfc 235: Caerieon Com-
D*enensVa (C Reeves 75, M Thomac 73. B
Templeton 87) 237: Radyr Comprehensive.
238: Barry Boys Comprehensive IndMd-
ual: Ihctnas iCaedecni. Newbanie GC:

BLACKPOOL OassicIniBtnattonal Open:
Second round: A Meo lEnai wae«lort« S
Judd (Big): M Wtiurrc IWitte-i bt C
Roscoe (Wales) . 5-0; J Virgo |Bng) B L
Grant (Big). 5-2: G Macdonald lEritj) H S
Muphy ilro). 5-3. J Birch (Eng) B P Cjvwv
I Eng). 5-1 . J O'Boye (Eng) t« F Qian (HM
5-3. J Brxneil (Scot) b> J Mctaughln iN lie).
5ft, S Manoos (Eng) bl I Grium (Eng). 5-

2. J Campbell I Aus) W J H*ggns rSco) 5-3.
C KduS (Eng) U S Nevrtxjry (Wari. 5-3. B

Chepeton (Can) bl P McPtnlipc iScoll, 5-C
D Waiter (Engt bl J Read lEngi. 5-1 S
Mettsh (Eng) H D RnCor; lEngi. 5-t A
Hamfton (&g) bt W Jones iWai. 5-). F
O’Brien flrel W C Thcmm (Can), 5-4. G
Lees (Eng) bt N Gitber lEng). 5-1

TENNIS

COLOGNE: ATP tournament First round:
K Braascti (Ger) bt KNovawn (C=). 6-4. &■
4.

BORDEAUX: ATP Tournament First
round: A Canada (Sp) bi T Fontana (Fi|. fr
4. S-1: A Cherkasov (C1S1 M L Praties (Fr).
6-2, 7-6: F Rotg (Sp) ta J Bunlto iSp). 0-7. e-

1 . 6ft. C PHoiesi (II) bt A Boolcch (Fti. 7-S.
6-7, 6-3: G Pers-RokJan (Aral tjt J Garal
(Arg). 6-3. 6-7. 6-3. G Lock (Sp) bo G VUs

238: George Herxxs School. EOrtxr&TiC
CbWpe 79. N Thomson 79. A Hoag 80)
248: Knox Academy. Madcteigion. Eaton

High School 248 Individual: Nicholson
(Knox Academy).

VOLVO EUROPEAN TOUR ORDER OF
MOTT: 1, N Faldo^Engj. £585.319 60. 2 A
Forsbrand (&we). £364.80639. 3. J M

TOUR DC L'AVEMR, France: Berth stage
1139 5Hn) 1. E Dr-fcker (HdflTw* l4rSn
03S8C, 2. L Armstrong (US). 3,ORottegues
(Port, both same tme. 4. R Ganeronov

). at 3see, 5, R Ron (Sp). 22. 8, M Wus
1 same Urns Overall: 1. KGarel (Fr).
■ 22mm 20tac. 2, WusL at 1.18. 3. J-P

(Arg). 6-3, 6-7. 6-3. G LOCK (Sp) bo G VO*
(Arg), H . C- Cosia (Sp) bt T

Guartirta (Ft). 7-5. 6-3
LEINSTER OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP-
Men's doubter: Final; Dluriqljncs) and C
Harwood (Lance) bl S Baron (Ire) and P
Sraunon (Aus>. 6-3. 6-4

OUdbal (Sp). E324.B2G 77; 4. C Montgom-
na (Scot). £28021780; 5. T Johnson*
(Zim). £277, 087X56: 6. B Lanqer (Gw).
065.747 66: 7. V 9ngh (Pi). £250.781 67;

Dojwo (Fr). 1.32: 4.E Mavm |Fr). i -35: 5. 1
Brochard (Ft). 1-SI. 6, J Arenas ISp). 206

THE TIMES

E56.747 66: 7. V Sfign (Hi), UflV./or

8. J Spence (Era). £247.425.60. 9. J RhflTO
(So). £229,73124; 10. G Brand Jr (Scot),

RUGBY UNION

CLUB MATCH: Cornwall 16. Crawstiay's
XV 37

SCHOOLS MATCHES: Citron 32, Old
CMonone 8; Cranbrook 10. EasttxxmeO:
Cranbrook 22. Locomotwa Bucharest 6.

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(Engl. 5-1; J Wycn (Can) bl P QatDnsy
(Eng). 5-1. I &aham (Eng) bl D Henry
(Sea). 5ft. I Sargent (Wales) bl S Maphy
(he). 5-3. M Dans (Eng) bt M Price (Eng). 5-

FOOTBALL

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(Sea). 5-2; P Bxion (Eng) bt D Taylor
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place in over-55’s

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WUIams (Wales] bl C WSscn (Wai). 5-1: J
Forguson (Eng) bt Y Mwchara (hid). 5-i C
Roscoe (Wales) bl P McPhrtps (Sot). 5-3.
B Morgan (Eng) bl J CuxJy lEra). 5-1. D
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SPORT

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1992

Transfers benefit liverpool in Europe

United midfield
disrupted by
Uefa Cup rules

BEFORE Manchester United
can even begin to contemplate
iranai posin g ^heir missive

to the European arena, Alex
Ferguson must seek to unravel
the mas of bureaucratic red
tape which has so hampered
his team's preparations.

Yesterday, as he readied his
squad for tonight’s Uefa Cup,
first round, first leg tie against
Torpedo Moscow at Old
Trafford, Ferguson was more
concerned with birthplaces
and length of service than with
tactics, as he sought to compfy
with the complex legislation
which governs the eligibility of
non-national players in the
three main European
competitions.

Under Uefa’s controversial,
not to say reviled, ruling, no
team is allowed to name more
than three “foreign” players in
its 16-strong panel. Although
two assimilated players are
now permitted, both must
have played under the auspi-
ces of their dub's national
association — in this case, the
Football Association — for an
uninterrupted five-year per-
iod, three years of which must
have been at youth leveL

By Ian Ross

Having carefully studied his
HmitPri options, Ferguson had
yet to resolve what he conced-
ed was a “tricky problem",
although he was able to name
six men who will definitely
start tonight's game.

Irwin, an assimilated play-
er. Martin. Pallister and Bruce
wfll form a defence which
Ferguson sakl “picks itself
under the circumstances’’.

In die absence of Dublin,
who is injured, Hughes and
McClair, two non-nationals,
will be paired together in
attack and, bearing in mind
Ferguson’s overwhelming de-
sire for a dean sheet
Schmeichd, die Danish inter-
national goalkeeper, seems al-
most certain to become
United's, third permitted
foreigner!

It is in midfield where
. United will suffer change and
disruption on a grand, per-
haps disturbing, scale. With
Inee suspended and Robson
injured, Webb. Wallace and
Phelan. three players of prov-
en ability but limited match
practice are, likely to be ush-
ered forward out erf the shad-
ows. Phelan's movement,
however, is stOl restricted by

McKeag seeks talks
with FA over cuts

GORDON McKeag. the
Football League president,
wants urgent discussions with
die Football Association over
plans to cut the Premier
League to 1 8 dubs. McKeag’s
move follows a reassurance
from Graham Kelly, the chief
executive, that under no tir-
cumstances will die FA sanc-
tion an extension of the
Premier League.

Kelly has made it dear that
he wants the set-up reduced
by four dubs from die present
22 by the mid-90s. There axe
firm dates fora cut to 20.

McKeag approached Kelly
at an executive committee
meeting after learning that
several Football League dubs
had been sounded out on
forming a second division of
the Premier League.

“I was sufficiently con-

cerned that the proposal did
not gain momentum that l
thought it right to raise die
matter immediately so that it
could be scotched at die out-
set," McKeag said yesterday.
"Graham Kdfy stated categor-
ically that there will be no
second division of the Premier
League and I am happy to
accept that

“I don’t know who made the
approaches, but undoubtedly
the reason for it is uncertainty
among some Premier League
dubs who are not members of
the ‘Platinum Eight’.’’

McKeag was referring to
Arsenal, Manchester United,
Liverpool. Nottingham For-
est, Everton, QPR, Aston Villa
and Leeds, who last week
combined to block a £13
million Bass sponsorship deal.
That has caused a deep split
with the other 14 dubs.

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an ankle injury. Giggs is Kkdy
to be United’s second assimi-
lated player.

Four members of United’s
successful youth side —
Beckham. Butt, Neville and
Casper — have been drafted
into the squad and wifi be
named as substitutes, with the
possibility of one starling tbe
match should Phelan be
forced to withdraw.

"I am quite confident about
our chances because my team
is currently playing with confi-
dence." the United manager
sard.

Meanwhile, Graeme
Souness may have upset many
a Liverpool supporter fay sanc-
tioning the safe of such senior
professionals as Saunders and
Houghton, but by doing so he
may have improved his dub’s
cha nces of making a signifi-
cant impact in the Cup Win-
ners’ Cup. By replacing non-
nationals with the likes of
Stewart and James, both Eng-
lish-born, Souness has re-
duced considerably the
damaging effects of the Uefa
legislation.

"We are better off than we
were last year,’’ he said.

Although Liverpool learned
yesterday that then appeal for
Whelan to be dassea as an
assimilated player had been
rejected. Rush has been grant-
ed such status.

Souness is unable to call
upon McManaman, Jones,
Barnes and Thomas because
of injury for tonight’s first
round, first leg tie against
Apollon Limassol of Cyprus at
Anfidd.

Limassol, the first Cypriot
opponents Liverpool have
laced in more fftan 25 years of
European involvement,
reached the second round of
the European Cup last season
before being defeated by the
holders. Red Star Belgrade, 5-
1 on aggregate.

Trevor -Francis, the manag-
er of Sheffield Wednesday,
may well make a rare, full
appearance tonight as the
south Yorkshire dub returns
to European football for the
first time since 1963. With
Hirst injured and Bright, the
recent acquisition from Crystal
Palaoe, ineligible, Francis is
thought to be considering
partnering Warhurst in a
makeshift attack against
Spora Luxembourg in the
Uefa Cup, first round, first leg
tie at Hillsborough.

□ A special chanty game to
raise funds for Yugoslav refu-
gees may be staged at Anfidd
later this year. Andrew Watt, a
London-based agent has
asked Liverpool to consider
playing host to a fixture be-
tween Red Star Belgrade and
Sarajevo. “We have been
asked to consider staging such
a game but. as of yet, nothing
has been decided one way or
the other," Peter Robinson.
Liverpool's chief executive,
said. “I think other English
dubs have also been contacted
by the agent."

Leeds prepare, page 3 1

Point of view: Mansell rakes the helm at the Southampton Boat Show yesterday before his promotional trip to Harrods

Our Nige meets the fluffy and famous

By Norman Howell

NIGEL Mansell, wearing
designer sunglasses but with-
out that habitual Canon cap.
arrived in a c liauffeure d
Mercedes outside Hanods
yesterday and was welcomed
by a large fluffy dog present-
ed to him by Mohamed Al
Fayed, the chairman of tire
store that likes to call itself
the most famous in the
world.

What was the Formula
One world champion doing
cm a publicity stunt In
Km'ghtshridge when interna-
tional motor sport is in
turmoil over his decision to

retire and The Sun is busy
organising a protest march
on the headquarters of the
Frank Williams team, which
has foiled to offer Mansell
suffidentfy good terms to
retainhis services?

Wefl, the answer is to be
found on Mansell's helmet —
the trademark of the shop
that attracts the rich and
famous.

Hanods sponsors Man-
sell, as does Sunseeker mo-
torboats, which is what led
Our Nige to spend time at
the Southampton Boat Show
before commg to SW3.

In Southampton and in
London, he reiterated that he

had definitely finished with
Formula One. “In Adelaide, I
will finish with FI forever,"
he said. The reference is to
the last race on November 8.

In the United States, where
be now seems destined to be
next year, he will not get the
kind of genuine adulation
with which the Hanods cus-
tomers welcomed him.

Bearing in mind that tbe
average Hanods shopper is
not tikdy to be the average
Mansell fen, the genuine
passion that greeted his store
walkabout is surely a barom-
eter of his popularity.

At the end of ltis afternoon
tea with the chair man, there

was a sizeable crowd gath-
ered outride door No. 3, pre-
sided over fay two severe
green-coated men and a
couple of more robust gentle-
men in dark suits and
cropped hair.

Mansell and Al Fayed
swept through to the exit
with assorted hangers-on.
“Nigel the Williams team
have put out a statement”
The shoulders stiffened.
“What does it sayT
“It talks of regrets and
rejected offers; do you have a
comment?"

“I still have no comment”
It seems now ever more
likefy that in the early part (rf

next week Williams will be
announcing that his drivers
for next year will be Alain
Prost and Martin Bnmdle.

But Brundle denied that he
had been approached by
either McLaren or Williams.
“I keep reading about it in
die press." he said. He put
his chances of driving for
either team at 50-50 yet he
did confirm he and Carl
Haas had spoken about an
indy Car drive.

Meanwhile, as Our Nige
was driven off he was chased
down the street by a gaggle of
excited Japanese and Italian
rials. He’ll be trussing that in
the States next year.

Yorath urges clubs
to screen players

By John Goodbody *

TERRY Yorath, the Wales
football team manager, whose
son died suddenly from air
incurable disease controllable
fay treatment, yesterday said
that senior dubs should screen
their players for potentially
fatal heart conditions.

Daniel Yorath. 15, who was
ready to sign for Leeds United
before collapsing last May,
did not undergo any such
check during his medical ex-
amination at the dub. “That is
tiie part that I cannot come to
terms with," his father said. ■

Yorath is supporting the
plan of the National Sports
Medicine Institute (NSMI) to
set up a pilot screening pro-
gramme to discover if athletes
are suffering from hypertro-
phic cardiomyopathy (HCM),
tbe most common cause of
unexpected death in young
people.

Yorath said after the confer-
ence of the Hypertrophic Car-
diomyopathy Association that
considering the millions of
pounds in football, it would
seem obvious to screen young
players. “This should occur as
soon as boys sign schoolboy
forms. The game has some

kind of responsibility to do
that," he said.

. Intensive exercise can
trigger an existing disorder
and cause sudden heart foil-,
ure. Among the leading
sportsmen who have probably
(tied from HCM are Wflf
Slade, the cricketer, David
Longhurst, tbe York City foot-
baller. and Adrian Hawkins, a
potential member of this
year's British Olympic cycling
team.

Dr Dan Tunstall Pedoe, the
medical (Erector ' of the
London marathon, in which
there have been 200.000 suc-
cessful finishers and only one
death from HCM, said that
he would be sorry if anyone
was deterred from taking exer-
cise, because of the evident
physical benefits. HCM is a
genetic condition, involving a
massive thickening of the
heart muscles.

Greg McLatehie, the medi-
cal director of the NSMI, said
discussions were already tak-
ing place on how to set up a
pflot scheme on athletes, prob-
ably in Glasgow, which he
termed “the heart-stop centre
of Europe”

Lamb opts for new challenge
to enhance his Test return

ALLAN Lamb, who has been
left out of the England cricket
party to tour India and Sri
Lanka, is returning to his roots
for winter employment hav-
ing signed a contract to play
for Western Province in South
Africa.

Lamb, 38. who yesterday
scored his fifth century of a
season in which he has led
Northamptonshire to third
place in the Britannic Assur-
ance championship, previous-
ly played for the province
between 1972 and 1982, with
the exception of one season in
which he represented Orange
Free State.

“It will be great to have the
chance of playing once more
for the team which gave me
my first taste of big-time
cricket when I was a school-
boy," Lamb said. “It will be a
fresh challenge. I want to do
well and show the sort of form
that will make me a candidate
for England again."

Lamb will be back to play
out the final two years of his
contract with Northampton-
shire. Bm be fore he can return
to the land of his birth, he has
to face a Test and County

By Geoffrey Wheeler .

Cricket Board disciplinary en-
quiry into his allegations of
bafidoctoring made against
tiie Pakistan bowlers m an
unauthorised newspaper
article.

Also vowing to regain their
England places for Australia’s
visit to defend the Ashes, are
Chris Broad, dismissed last
month by Nottinghamshire,
and David Gower, whose
omission from-the Indian tour
party has caused controversy.

In a surprise move yester-
day. Broad rejoined Glouces-
tershire, the county he left
under a doud in 1983 in
order to enhance his chances
of breaking into Test cricket

While with Nottingham-
shire he won 25 caps, but his
England career ended when
he went on the unofficial tour
of South Africa with Mike
Gatling's team and, along
with the other members of the
side, was banned by the Inter-
national Cricket Council.

Broad, bom and educated
in Bristol will be 35 later this
month. He has scored nearly
21.000 first-class runs and
said yesterday he had received
offers from seven counties

“inducting two with Test
match grounds. 1 gave a lot of
thought to my future, but
decided 1 wanted to return to
the county where it all scarted.
The way Nottinghamshire
sacked me left a bad taste.

“Gloucestershire look a
good side, but need the experi-
ence, having lost Bill Athey,
that I hope I can give them.'

Gower, who was speaking
after signing a new two-year
contract with Hampshire,
said: “1 really must set my
sights on an England place
and I shall have to keep on
frying.

“I have a good record
against Australia, but that in
itself is not enough to win
selection. I will have to be at
tbe top of the list making runs
for Hampshire when the selec-
tion meetings are held.”

Gower said he was "flat-
tered" by the campaign which
has been mounted to hare
him brought bark into the
England tour party. “But I
don't think ft wifi achieve
much," he said.

Kent finish second, page 30

Hogan and Faldo are cast in the same mould

By Mitchell Platts

GOLF CORRESPONDENT

NICK Faldo must be reck-
oned the most complete golfer
since Ben Hogan. He has had
ambitions to be recognised as
a true champion since he first
struck a golf ball and his
craving for immortality has
driven him to distraction at
times. Now he has succeeded
in setting a standard which
will assure that future genera-
tions remember this as the
Faldo era. In years to come,
people wfll be proud to say. “I
saw Nick Faldo play."

Faldo did not set out to
imitate Hogan. Quite simply,
it was in ms nature. Henry
Cotton, who won three Open
Championships, as Faldo has
done, felt he got to know
Hogan weft, or almost as well
as arty man could. Cotton
described Hogan as having a
few friends, whom be liked
and understood and who un-
derstood him, but otherwise as
being a loner. It is a descrip-
tion which would fit Faldo.

Hogan would practice for
hour upon hour because he
wanted to know how he would

hit the ball when he was tired.
Faldo has committed himself
in much the same way to tire
practice range. His determ-
ination, for instance, to master
the haltshot during the last
year demonstrates his desire to
keep learning. “I apply myself
at all times." he said. “I assess
what I need to do with every
shot Some criticise me for
that, some take it as being
pretty impressive." Cotton
pointed out in his book
Thanks for the Came that
even Hogan found the half-
shot difficult to play.

Another difference is that
Faldo does encourage young
players to consult him if they
truly wish to learn. Gary
Flayer once telephoned Ho-
gan to seek advice. Hogan
listened, then asked: . “Gary,
whose dubs are you playing?”
Player replied, “Spalding."
Hogan gave himself time to
say only: “Weft ask Mr Spat-
ding then," before he put
dawn the phone.

Faldo, however, can be brit-
tle at times. He is essentially a
shy man, and his best method
of defence is to attack, in that
sense, he might have his

MITCHELL

PLATTS

Golf Correspondent

detractors. His golf game,
however, ft admired hyafl and
his success in the GA Euro-
pean Open on Sunday was
achieved with such ease that
one wonders how much more
there is to come.

Faldo has won the Carrolls
Irish Open, the Open Champ-
ionship, the Scandinavian
Masters and the GA Euro-
pean Open this season. He
has won each of his last three
tournaments, he is No. 1 in
the Volvo Order of Merit with
£565319 and he needs to
earn only E8.848 in die,
Lanedihe Trophy, which starts
on Thursday, to set an official
prize-winning record for the
PGA European Tour. Faldo,
156 under par for tourna-
ments in Europe and the
United States this season, has

not finished outside of the top
four in his last nine events,
which indudes the US Open
(joint fourth) and US PGA
Championship (joint second).
He hds earned more than £4
million in prize-money alone
in Ins 17-year career.

Hogan once spoke of a
dream in which he had 17
holes in one. “I woke up mad,
because of the one I missed."
Faldo dreams, too. but he
lives, and worts, m a real
world where right now he is
the master of his trade, the role
model for alL Faldo, at 35,
plays such a flainiUu»d game
that others, even Severiano
Ballesteros, appear totally
mesmerised. While Faldo
seems unlikely to be victim
again to tbe capricious nature
rathe sport, Ballesteros, sadly

out of form, feoes the severest
examination of his career.

This time 12 months ago.
Ballesteros was flying high at
the top of the Order of Merit
Faldo, however, was deter-
mined to regain the No.}
position. He has, by banishing
Ballesteros and other Euro-
pean rivals to the wings and by

following the matinee perfor-
mance by tbe American, Fred
Couples, in the Masters.

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the spotlight too hot to handle.
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No more war? Then calm down

Nigella Lawson

considers Neil

Lyndon’s “no holds

barred” polemic on
feminism and asks whether he

knows who, or what he attacks

W omen are angry" ran
a popular slogan of
the f970s. The send-
ment was proclaimed
at public meetings and at private
consciousness-raising groups. Plac-
ards were inscribed whh it, hearts
etched with it Now. men are angry.
One man. Neil Lyndon, is particu-
larly angry. He is more than angry,
he is hopping mad. Furious. Spit-
ting. And the lull frenzy of his rage
is given vent in No More Sex War,
a thrumming piece of polemic, in
which, as he gallantly warns us, “no
holds are barred". It takes some-
thing of a sleight of hand to argue,
as he does, that feminism is the
“filthy incubus", the “poisonous
orthodoxy”, the totalitarianism that
has blighted the public institutions
and private lives of our age at the
same time as asserting that it has
had precious little effect — “not
much more than a slighting im-
pression" — on the common deal-
ings of ordinary

people, but then
Lyndon is no mean
polemicist. Or rath-
er, he is a mean
polemicist: breath-
takingly selective, a
master of casuistry,
keen to believe the
and

worst and eager,
certainly, to present
the worst
If you are going
to attack some-
thing. you have, as
Lyndon concedes,
to be in agreement
on what is the ob-
ject of attack. If
feminism is to be
the focus of this
debate we all have
to understand what
is meant by it What then, does
Lyndon mean by if? “Here", as he
disarmingly puts it “is my best
offer".

"The common denominator is
the belief that women share inter-
ests which are distinct from men's
and that those interests can be
advanced only by women acting
collectiwly. That much, l submit,
must be agreed. No variety of
thought or style of attitude could
be termed feminist unless it in-
volved these presumptions ."

This no doubt sums up what a
good many people, feminists in-
cluded, believe to constitute femi-
nist thinking, but it cannot serve as
a definition of feminism. It is
unworkable. It jumps ahead of
itself. It exdudes too many femi-
nists — myself included — who fail
to find themselves or their beliefs
represented by it Let me offer
another definition, not my own, but
one posited by the philosopher Jane
Raddiffe Richards in her book. The
Sceptical Feminist. The somewhat
mealy-mouthed title should not
give Lyndon cause for sneer or
cheer yen this is no faint-hearted
apologia, but a measured attempt
to give a philosophical account of
the “strong fundamental case for
feminism”.

The case is this: "that women
suffer from systematic social injus-

‘Lyndon
refuses to see
that male
power can be
construed
as the
determined
holding on to
privilege’

tice because of their sex". This
definition serves td constitute “the
essence of feminism, with anyone
who accepts it counting as a
feminist”. It is a simpler definition
than Lyndon’s, more comprehen-
sive. and more accurately taken as a
common denominator among
those who describe themselves as
feminisL Feminism, thus “is not
concerned with a group of people it
wants to benefit, hit with a type of
injustice it wants to eliminate”.

! am not shirking my responsibil-
ities here. I know as well as Lyndon
does that for many feminists this is
an inadequate article of faith. Of
course he’s right that many femi-
nists see themselves as aning
expressly for the rights of women at
the expense of others’ rights. Many
feminists do believe that the duty of
feminism is to provide a movement
of support for women who suffer
from injustice with no regard to or
even acceptance of the injustices
suffered by men.
But a definition, if
it is to be workable,
if it is indeed to be
valid, has to take in
the broad body of
belief, the corner-
stone on whidi it is
founded, not mere-
ly some people
who. however vo-
cally. hold further
and more extreme
beliefs.

This means that
while Lyndon may
be quite right in
denying some fem-
inists and exposing
the unreasonable-
ness of their beliefs,
he cannot by logical
extension ' believe
have disproved the

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himself to

fundaments of feminism.

This having been said, it is
undoubtedly true that much femi-
nist debate has descended into a
slanging match between the sexes.
Much of this lamentable state of
affairs may be ascribed to what
Richards names as “an ineradica-
ble human tendency to take sides".
This is an explanation, not a
defence: of course Lyndon is right
to take offence at a pronouncement
such as “all men are Idi Amin" or
at the tendency of some feminists to ‘
use maleness as a criterion of
badness, and femaieness as the
criterion for goodness. To resist
such statements is an obvious duty,
but any critic must take pains to
ensure that injury, however keenly
or justifiably felt does not give rise
to injustice. We don’t perhaps need
to refer to Richards again to
remind us of the dangers, but I
shall quote her unapologeticaDy all
the same: “Resistance to the femi-
nist movement easily turns into a
resistance to seeing that women
have any problems at alL"

A pronounced tendency. 1 don’t
deny h, to counter injury with
injury has coloured much feminist
output “You’ve made us suffer,
now we’ll make you suffer” is no
way to eliminate any form of
injustice, whidi is, as we have

shown, die proper concern of
feminism. But Lyndon, while de-
spising this response, reacts in
exactly the same way. Those bitches
have got their talons into the very
heart of his life, just watch him rip
the guts out of all them, sister by
sister. This at times degenerates
into a playground farce — he
started iL No she did. No he did.
She did — to die extent that there is
nothing the reader wants so much
as to bang their heads together.

Nevertheless to say. as some
feminists have done, that aD men
are rapists has become more cultur-
ally acceptable than to say. as some
men have indeed said in the past,
that all woman are whores. Popular
opinion does seem to hold iQogical-
fy that it is less injurious to utter
wholesale condemnations of men
than to demean all women. With-
out wishing to allow Lyndon for
one moment to believe that 1 am in
favour' of further dissemination of
that injustice. I would like to offer a
historical perspective.

It cannot be denied that the lives
of women have been in the main
controlled by men (just as those
men have controlled die lives of
other men) and that that control
includes not only the legislative
power which defines what sort of
lives women (and other men) can
lead but also the social and eco-
nomic dout which fashions the
balance of power between the sexes
in their private dealings. When
men were heard to say “aD women
are hysterics" or “a woman’s place
is in the home” there was a real
sense in which a woman could be
prevented from engaging m those
activities which her supposed in-
nate hysteria or her presumed
natural function would seem to

disbar her. These allegations more
than slighted women, they acted as

a restraining order on her very self,
tot

The same, for all their wronghead-
edness. cannot be said for the
pronouncements that vilify men. I
do not defend them, but it does no
harm to look at matters in this light

T his brings us to what for
Lyndon is the noirest.of
bfttes noires. the Patriar-
chy, elsewhere and often
described as “the universal political
structure which privileges men at
the expense of women". Historical-
ly speaking, men have had — and
still have — more power titan
women and have used that power
to define and curtail the rale of
women. Anthropologically speak-
ing, there may have been a purpose

in this, which was, as Lyndon puts
wre to have

it, that “if women were
babies, if the tribe was to reproduce,
a system of concessions was re-
quired which allowed for the cardi-
nal uncertainties of women to know
when they might become pregnant
and for bow many years they might
be suckling infants".

Quite so. but as the structure
evolved, as convention cemented, it
becomes apparent that one man’s
system of concessions can seem
another woman's oppression. The
difficulty here is that Lyndon
refuses to see that male power can
be construed as the determined
bolding on to privilege, ever. The
fact that many men still occupy
more positions of power than
women would seem then to be a
historical fact devoid of political
weight Institutions, positions of
power, why even language itseff.
are all neutral and genderiess
according to Lyndon.

If we are to look at the word
patriarchy, which in its literal
t ranslation means "rule of the
fathers", it has to signify that it is
stfll regarded as contention for
children to take the father's name
and. to a lesser extent though the
practice is still widespread, for a
woman to take her husband’s
name on marriage. Space is short,
and so my arguments are necessar-
ily curtailed, but the fact that
Lyndon singularly ignores the fad
that in modem society, still, a
person’s status is customarily de-
fined by his or her relation to the
male is baffling. Surely it is worthy
of comment?

What Lyndon also fails to take on
board is the questioning of some
feminists as to the very hold of
patriarchy. The collusion of women
in this set-up has to be investigated,
and has been, as does the apparent
reluctance of some men to take
advantage of what feminism might
seem to offer. What Lyndon asks
for — that fathers should be
regarded as having the same rights
to their children as mothers da that
men should not be statutorily
excluded from all the benefits erf
family life that are accorded women
— many feminists welcome. But
more than welcome, it is necessary.
The failure of judges to grant men
custody of their children or their
apparent inability to see that the
father can have the same responsi-
bilities and conoems for his child as
a mother is routinely accepted to
have towards her is not the failure
of feminism, but more the failure of
those in power to take it seriously.

When, to take just one instance, a
few years ago, ajudge refused to let
a 1 7 -year-old youth adopt the baby

that his 16-yrar-old former girl-

friend was carrying, he expressed
the view that a man that age was
too young to know he could accept
the responsibilities that rearing
children involved. The implication
-was that men would tire of such ties
and not have the sticking power for
such a course. Lyndon would no
doubt resent this frankly sexist and
injurious observation. So did many
feminists who (despite the silence
with which feminists have, so
Lyndon charges, greeted the injus-
tices done to men) were keen to
voice their disapproval in print I
cannot see how the judge’s derision
can be identified with feminist
principles; rather, it supports a sex-
stereotyped view of life that is in
direct opposition to them.

If Lyndon wishes to see a fairer
state of play between the sexes and
to see feminists sign the non-
aggression pact he so speciously
proffers. I suggest, in future, a less
adversarial approach.

What do you think?

Write in with your
views to: Feminism
Debate, The Times,

J Pennington Street,
London El 9XN.

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on October 6, see
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form on page 4

TOMORROW

Enlightenment:
Richard Cork on
Tibet’s sacred art

You think you’re free — and along conies Vic

Y ou want to meet Vic.” said
Jonathan a few months ago.
when I was having a thera-
peutic snivel one evening after a
movie.

“Why?" 1 sobbed.

"Because he’s a great Woke." he
‘said, heartily. “Don’t be so suspi-
cious all the time. Lynne. Loosen
up. Vic is a real free spirit, with
marvellous ideas, and funnily
enough his last girlfriend just t hrew
him out so he’s available. Some sort
of bust-up over money 1 think.
Anyway. Ill introduce you."

’What does he do?" 1 sniffed.
“He’s very young at heart. Ha ha
good old Vic."

“What does he da though?
"Well, he’s very artistic, and he’s
promised himself that if he doesn't
get into something by the time hes
4S. hell get a proper job." .

I thought about it The distinct
odour of rat wiflled past my
nostrils, unignorably.

“Does he like cats?" I asked at

last.

“No. he’s allergic I ihink. w
“Thank goodness for that. then.

I sighed with relief. “I had an awful
feeling for a moment thai he was
just my type.” ...

I hate to be the bearer of tod
news, but Vic is a phenomenon of
our times. I used to think I was
unlucky, but then I found out 1 was

just single and averagely tolerant of
failure, which made me a pushover
for layabouts. It is posable that '
married readers are unfamiliar
with the work! of Vic. but each
single woman discovers him for
herself m a very short while. The
telltale due is when you find
yourself paying for both dinners,
but pretending not to notice. “Did
!? Never mind, it’s only money. Tell
me again about this project for
knitting old cassette tape into light-
weight blankets for the homeless,
and charging them ten quid each.
It sounds fascinating."

Feminists, of course, are not
supposed to admit that there is a
man shortage. We have this horri-
ble feeling that it will give ammuni-
tion to Neil Lyndon, who will jump
up and down saying “Tee heel Told
you! Only yourselves to Marne!" But.
if there were a man shortage,
hypothetically speaking, and it
stretched out arid and flit to the far
horizon, then you see that littie
shimmering dot in die distance?
The one coming steadily towards
you, like Omar Sharif in Lawrence
of Arabia, getting slowfy bigger
and bigger and more sinister, as
the only sign of available life? Ifs
Vic. ■

“Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor,
goes the pruneoountiRg of

SINGLE LIFE

Lynne Truss decides it
is time to throw

in the sponger

Vic.

tire wised-up single woman each

morning. “Rich man. poor man.
Vic, beggar man, thief. Vic.” Vic
ought to be more substantially
represented in this list, really: but
you get the gist. The really interest-
ing thing, however, is not that
single women are eating too many
prunes. It is thai Vic, like the devfl.

is everywhere, yet always comes as a

surprise. When he’s somebody
ease's Vic, you can identify him at
once. Whereas when he is your

own. and he is blatantly using your
mains electricity to recharge his car
battery again, you can’t

“Ooh. so when will 1 get to meet
him?" you say to a friend who
recen tfy went our with Vic on a first

date

“Soon, I expect He’s moved in."

There is a short pause, while you
tell yourself it’s none of your
business.

“ReaDyT you say, non-
commitally.

“It’s working out quite wefl.
actually. I mean, being home all
day he can take in the milk.”

“Great"

“And he cooks meals and tilings,
and^above all he trusts me with his
problems."

“What does he do, then, exactly?”

“He’s such a free spirit Ha ha
good old Via”

“No, but whai does he dor

“ He used to be a disc jockey. And
he's got so many schemes he
doesn't know where to start He
reckons he needs a mobile phone
and some headed notepaper before
he can really get going. But
unfortunately he hasn't got either at
the moment"

“He sounds — er, laid back.”

“Yes! Sometimes we laugh about
iL I say he's so laid back hell fall off
arid hurt bimselL"

“Ho ho." you say. politely.

They are ' not all called Via
incidentally. It would make things
too easy if they were. But I do fed it
is worthwhile to list a few of the
obvious warning signs, so that
more women can be spared the
miseiy of asking Vic, on some
fateful day. “Did you only lerve me
for my free batterycharging facili-
ties?" and then waiting for five
agonising minutes while he seri-
ously weighs up the pros and cons.
The term “free spirit” ought to set
alarm bells danging; abo Vic’s
habit of abruptly crossing- the road
to avoid walking past his bank
Watch out too. for his suggestion
(curious for a free spirit after all)
that you take out wills in one
another’s favour after only a brief
acquaintance.

The reafiy dewer thing about Vk
is that he feels most comfortable
with women who are independent
for reasons beyond the obvious. To
an independent woman, you see.
the notion of sponging is so
unthinkable that she cant bring
herself to accuse anybody of doing
it But ibe sad fact is, there are
people in the world who consider
themsdves perfectly eligible for
relationships yet whose personal
motto is the same as New Hamp-
shire's: “Live Free or Die. "And
unfortunately they don’t all wear h
on a T-shirt

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2 ARTS

LIFE & TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1992

THE FORCE OF DESTINY: last
season's successful Don Ortas is

fallowed by a new production of one
of Veidi’s bleakest but most compelBrg
worts, newly translated by Jeremy
Sams. Hie cast and produOion team
need no recommendation- Nicholas
Hytner (Sracu. Ritfurd Hudson desgns,
Mark Elder conducts Josephine
Barrow. making an eagerty -awaited
return, sings Leonora. Edmund Barham
is Don Alvaro. Jonathan Summers. Don
Carlos, and Arme-Mane Owens b
Preaoslia

Coliseum, St Martin's Lane. London
WC2 1071-8363161), Wed. 7pm.
Further performances through
September and October.

TOSCA: Luaano Pavarotti m fine form
as Cavaradossi in John Cat's reliable

production The young Amencan
soprano ELabeth Hofteque makes her
British debut in pw utte role: Si h, ana
Can oli c Scarpia. Zubin Mehta con-ducts
all but the hnal three performances. Fot
those unable to get a ticket, tonights
pwformancp wil be relayed on the
screen in the Piazza.

Royal Opera House. Covent Garden,
London WC2 '071-240 1066). 7 30pm.

vn/ARTA: The Place's new
■me manorial festival of contemporary
South Asian dance, entitled Vivarta. a
Sanskrit word meaning "evolution" or
"transformation" continues until
October 3. Tonight brings a programme
choreographed and danced by
Raniabau Sircar

The Place, EXAe’s Road. London WC1

(07 1-387 003 IX 8pm.

OLD MASTER DRAWINGS: The
Ashmotean has one of the greatest
cotecoarr; of Old Master drawings m
the world. Norma ty only a snail
peroemage s an show, but the
European Arts Festival has persuaded
the museum to bmg out some of its
nches. Thn amazing selection, first seen
in Rome last year, includes five
Mkhelangete. (me Raphaels and two
Leonardos, as well as works by
Rembrandt, Rubens, Diver. Claude,

TODAY’S EVENTS

A dally guide to arts
and entertainment
compiled by Kari Knight

Watteau. Holbein, Gainsborough and
Rowlandson.

Ashmolean Museum. Oxford (0865
278000). Tues-SaL 10am-4pm. Sun. 2-
4pm, umHOct II.

SONGS OF MY PEOPLE: Subtitled

"African Americans: A Self -Portrait",
this show begins rts European tour vi
London, fifty blade American
photographers Cududmg four Pufitzer
Priae winners) were oammisponed to
record die Overity of blade culture in
the Untied States. Some 1 SO pictures
range horn social Manhattan and
political Washington to jazz dubs and
gospel hah, and indude black
astronauts, symphony conductors,
rodeo cowboys and arc us downs.
Foyer GaUertes. Festival Hall. South
B»*. London SEl (071-328 3002).
Dafy. I0am-1 0.30pm. untH Oct 25

MEDEA: Diana Rigg plays Euripides's
witch-wife bent on revenge- This
production has a new translator by
Afistair Shot; Jonathan Kent directs.
Almeida. AlmexJa Street. London N1
(071-359 4404). opens tonight. 7pm.
then Mon -Sat, 8pm, mat Sat, 4pm

ORLANDO: Hot from Edinburgh. Red
Shrfrs version of Virginia Woof's
fantasy. Intriguing but complicated by
adding the stoty of the Bloomsbury
lovers. Opens tonight
Lyric Stucfio. King Street London W6
(071-741 231 IX tonight 7pm: then
Mon-Sat 8pm. mat Sat 430pm.

ROBIN — THE PRTNCE OF
SHERWOOD: Bfll Kerrwrlght apples his
Midas touch to a musical version of the
Robot Hood tale, with Michael Hofoway
starring as the man with the nifty b>»

A natural tour follows.

Thorndike. Chuch Street
Leatherhead (0372-377677). Opens
tonight 730pm: then Mon-Wed.
730pm. Thurs-Sat 8pm. mats Wed,
2.30pm, Sat 4pm.

ELBA RAMALHO/BHUMXI BOYS:
Brazffian singer Elba Ramaiho d
aftema thefy known as the Queen of
Lambada in her native country. She has
a string of gold and platinum tfccs
from over a dozen albums recorded owr
1 3 yean, and enjoys considerable
popularity nr America. Japan and Span.
The notable support comes from the
Harare band, the Bhundu Boys,
performing material from a proposed

new album.

Brixton Academy, SlockweR Road.
London SW9 (071-326 1022). 7pm

ROYAL PMUfARMO NIC

ORCHESTRA: James Galway is soloist
with the orchestra m Mozart* s Flute
Concerto. Yun Temiikanov also
conducts Rossini's mature The Barber
of Seville and Mahler's Symphony No 1.
Festival HalL South Bara, London SEl
1071-9289800). 7J0pm.

CONTRASTS: Plants! Andras Schlff .
and oboist Here HoBiqer direct a
cfctintwshed lineup of players m
Beethoven’s Three Marches for piano
duet. Schumann’s Three Romances tor
oboe and piano. Op 94; Schubert's
AndanOno Van* Yun's RondeB ; and
Beethoven's nano Quintet, Op 16. The
programme atso indudes the first
London performances of S. Veras'
Diptych for wind qiintet. and
Birtwistle's five Distances for Five
Instruments

Queen Elizabeth Han. South Bank.
London SEl (071-928 8800). 7.45pm
WATS! MUSIC Lyndon Morgans
Verity Bar gate Awarckwmnng play is
. staged by the reputable Soho Theatre
Company unda the cSrecuon of Keith
Boat. The play 6 described as a "heftw
skelter d epiction of fife, set In a Sixties
seaside fairground"

Codcpit Theatre. Gateforth Street,
London NW8 (071-402 5081). previews
from tonight 8pm, opens Mon, 7pm.

■ ANGELS IN AMERICA: Drilling
performances m Tony Kushner"s
lascinatmg state-of-ihe-Union drama
on Aids, refigxxi, politic, everything.
National (cottesloeX South Bank.

SET (071-9282252) TorxghL 7.15pm.
210mms

□ DEATH AND THE MAIDEN: ArM
Dorf man’s sanding psydiofogKal
rtama on the longing for revenge.
Penny Dowme, Danny Webb and Hugh
Rob make up the cast

Duka of York's, St Martin's Lane.

WC2 (071-836 5122). Mon-SaLSpm.
mats Thun, 3pm, Sat 4pm I20mns.

■ THE DYBBUK: Katie MHcheirs
thn&ngfy convincing KasddK
community where the supematinl
presses m on all sides. Joanne Pearce
superb as the girl possessed.

The Pit Barbican. S4k Street EC2
(07 1-638 8891 V Today. 2pm and
7.15pm. 190mms.

□ FROM A JACK TO A KING: Witty
and styfish version of Macbeth's dhnb to
i he tcp. set in the world of rock bands
and packed with Sixties songs
Ambassadors. West Street London
WC2 (07 1 -836 6111). Mon-Thurs,

8. 1 5pm, fn and Sat 5 30pm and
8.30pm. 120trens.

B GAMBLBtSrOleg Menshfcov, Mark
Rylance. Phil Daniels n superbly staged
production of Gogol's "song" drama.
Tricycle. 269 Kflbum High Road, NW6
(071-328 1000). Mon-Sat 8pm, mat
Sat 4pm. lOOmms.

□ GRAND HOTEL: Muscat barley
sugar. Berlin rn the Twenties.
Sentimental. American, entertaiimg.
Dominion, Tottenham Court Road,

W1 (071-580 9562). Mon-Sat 8pm.
mats Thur* SaL 2.30pm. 120mtns

■ HECUBA: Trojan women snuggle
from grief to revenge engrossing
production of Euripides by new artistic
director Laurence BosweU.

Gate. 1 1 Pembndge Road. W1 1 (071-
2290706). Mon-Sat 7 30pm. lOSnws.

□ AN INSPECTOR CALLS: Stephen
Daldiy s astonishingly powerful
resurrection of Pnestlev's drama of
social re^joieibikty

THEATRE GUIDE

Jeremy Kingston’s assessment
of theatre showing in London

■ House full, returns only
B Some seats available
□ Seats at all prices

National (Lyttelton). South Bank, SEl
(071-92822521 Today. 2. 15pm and
7.30pm

■ JUNE MOON: Mata songwriter

conquers Tin Pan Alley. Dei ghtful
comedy by Ring Laidner and George S.
Kaufman. Excefloit cast lead by Adam
Godtey and Frank Lazarus.

Hampstead. Swiss Cottage Centre.
NW3 (071-722 9301). Mon-Sat. 8pm.
mat SaL 4pm. 135rmrts.

□ THE MADRAS HOUSE: Roger
Allam heads a strong cast in Granrile
Barker's proto-feminist, serious
comedy, set in a fashton house. Directed
by Peter James.

Lyric Ha mm er sm ith. King Street W6
(081-741 2311). Mon-Sat. 7.30pm.
mats wed, Sat 230pm. ISOmins.

□ MURDSt BY MISADVENTURE:
Gerald Harper and William Gaunt play
oune writers who faB out and pit rim
widoed wits against each other nui-cf-
the-mil thrRer.

Whitehall. Whitehall. SWT (071-867
1119). Mon-Fri. 8pm, SaL 8.30pm. mats
Wed. 2.30pm. Sat 5.30pm. I20mm&

□ PHILADELPHIA. HEREIGDMEf:
Brian Fnel's affectionate comedy of an
Irish emigrant and his carping after
ego. A revival to be cherished.
Wyndham's, Channq Cross Road.

WC2 (071-867 1116). Mon-Fn. 8pm.
Sat 8. 15pm. mats Wed. 3pm. SaL
5pm. 140min*

□ SHADES: Pauline Collins tom
between her chid, mum and manfriend
in Sharman Macdonald’s dsappomong
new play: only SporatScally absorbing.
Albeiy. St Martin's Lane. WC2 1071-
867 1115) Mon-5aL 8pm. mats Thin.
3pm. SaL 4pm. 120mms

□ SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION:
Stodrarcf Charming as the rxh New
Yorker transfigured fry a black con
artist m John Guam's fine play on
human interdependence.

Com e dy . Panton Street SWI (071-
B67 1045). Mon-SaL 8pm. mats Wed.
3pm. Sat 4pm. 90m ins

□ SOMEONE WHOTi WATCH
OVER ME: ExceBent pLjymg by Alec
McCowea James McDaniel and
Stephen Rea as Sefrut hostages m Frank
McGubiness's new play.

Vaudeville, The Strand. WC2 (071-
836 9987). Mon-Sat 8pm. mats, Wed,
230pm. Sat 4pm. I40rnm&.

□ A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
(Tulip Prowse's triumphant RSC
production. John Cartele as a callous
artxocrat in Wilde's social melodrama
laced with vml

Theatre Royai, Haymarket. SWt (071-
930 8800). Mon-Sat 730pm, mats
Wed. Sat 2.30pm. 165mins.

LONG RUNNBB: B Blood Brothers
Phoentx (071-867 1044) ...□ Buddy:
Victona Palace (07 1-834 1317)

□ Carmen Jones: Old Vtc (071-928

7616) B Cats: New London (07 1 •

405 0072) . . . □ Dancing at
Lugfmasa: Garrick <071-494 5085)

□ Doirt Dress for Dinner Apolo
(071-494 5070) . . . □ An Everting
With Garylineker: Duchess (071-494
5075) . . . tl Five Guys Named Mok
lyric (071-494 5045). . DGood
Rockin' TonrtK Prmce of Wales (D71-
839 5971 )...■ Joseph and the
Amazing Tedmkntor Dreamcoat
Pallackum (071 -494 5037).. □ Me
and MyGktAdelphi (071-636
7611) . . B Les Mrs^rabtas Palace
(07 M34 09091... B Miss Saigon:
Theatre Royal. Drury Lane (071-494
5400) . . . □ The Mousetrap:

St Martin s 1071 -836 1443) . . . ■Hie
Pl ie ntom of the Opera: He Majesty's
(07 1 -494 5400) ...□ Return to the
Forbidden Pianac Cambridge (07 1 -
379 52991 . .OStartght Express:
Apofo Wcasiia <071 -828 8665)

O The Woman in BUdc Fortune
(071-8362238).

Ticket vtformanon supplied by Sodety
of West End Theatre

NEW RELEASES

IES AMANT5 DU PONT NHJF (18X
Leos Carat's hymn lo Paris and a punk
bum's love fora vnmg artist gomg
bind. Terrific m spurts, and a real movie
mow. Denis Lavani iukette Binoche
Lumtore (071-8360691).

♦ BOB ROBERTS (1 5): lively spoof
documentary about a nght-wmg fo&-
stoger's dxty battle lor a seat In the
US Senate Encerpitsing drectonaf
debut by actor Tim Robbins.

Gate (07 1 -727 J043) MGM Otebea
(07 1 -352 50961 MGM Tottenham
Court Road (071 -636 6148) Odeorec
Haymaricet KM26 915353)

Kensington (0426 9 1 4666) Screen
on the HHI (07 1-135 33661 UO
WMtriays (07 1-792 3332)
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS —THE
DISCOVERY (PG) Pin-up navigator
iGe-arge Corrafacc) docovcrs the New
world Sity juvenile nsmp. with a rouDne
Marion Brando cameo Flabby direction
1 1 ore John Glen

Odeons Kensington (0426 914666)
Leicester Square (0426 91 56S31
0AN2ON: Mcucan telephone
operator search® for her km danong
p, inner tolGucabng mvrJC gotd
atmosphere: otherwise, a fftn going
niAVhcre OKector. Mana Noraio
Metro i071 -137 0757)

♦ HOUSE SITTER iPG) Guide Hawn
moves m(o architect Sieve Mann's
rbwtm house and poses as his wife. A
low bright spots, mostly very trying
C'liectcv FianL Oz

Camden Parkway (071-267 7034)
MGM Baker Street (07 1 -93S 977’)
MGM ftifham Road (07 1-370 2636)
MGM Oxford Street (071 -636 03101
MGM Trocadera (071 -434 0031)

CINEMA GUIDE

Geoff Brown's assessment of
films in London and (where
indicated with the symbol ♦ )
on release across the country

Plaza (07 1 -497 9999) ua Wltitdeys
(071-792 3332)

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (15V
Chldess Western couple in Pakistan
suffer culture clashes interesting
material scuppered by jittery treatment
James WJby. Mefissa Leo Wnter-
di rector. Jamil Dehlavi.

Mlnema (07 1 -235 4225) MGM
Chelsea (071-352 5096) MGM
Shaftesbury Avenue (07 1 -836
6279379 702 St

CURRENT

JUICE 115) Fnendshrp and violence
among ghetto youths. Superior sample
of the new black enema, directed by
Sp*e Lee’s cameraman. Ernest R.
Dickerson. Stamnq Omar Epps. Tupac
Shakur.

MGM PMton Street (071-930 06311
MGM Trocadera (071-434 00311.

« LETHAL WEAPON 3 USX Rousing
comedy and mayhem with LA cops
Riggs and Murtiugh Mel Gibson.
Danny Gfcnrer. toe Peso: director.
Richard Dormer

MGM FuRutm Road (071-370 2636)
MGM Haymwfcet (07 1-839 1527)
MGM Oxford Street (07 1 -636 031 0)
MGM Trocadera (071 -134 003 1)
Odeon Marble Arch (0426 914501 1
UO WMerieyi (07 1 -792 3332)

LOVERS (18): In Franco's Spain.

Vktona AM derails her lodger's
intended marriage. Excellent tale of
mad kwe. expertly mounted by d rector
Vioente Aranda

MGM PtaacflUy (07 1 -437 3561)

Screen on the HDI (071-05 3366)
Screen on Baker Street (071-935
2772X

♦ THE PLAYBt (1 5): Dazdtng satire on
Hollywood, directed by Robert Altman
from Michael Toibn's mwel Tim
Robbra as the studn executive who UBs
a wnter plus cameos galore.

MGM CMsea (071-352 5096) MGM
Haymarket (07 1 -839 1 527) MGM
Trocadera (071-434 0031) Orleans
Kensington (0426 914666)

Mezzanine (0426 915683) Screen an
Baker Street 1071 -935-2772) Screen
on the Green (071-226 3520) UO
Whiteieys (071-792 3332k

♦ THE POWER OF ONE (1 2V
Orphaned white South Afncan Grid
develops a social conscience. Jumbled
epc. coarsely handed by drector John
G Aviklsen. Stephen Dorff, Morgan
Freeman. Arrrxn MueRer-Slahl.

Batbkan (07 1 -638 8891 1 Camden
Parkway (071-267 7034) Empire 1071- ■
497 99991 MGM Fuham Road (071-
370 2636) MGM Pantnn Street (071-
930 0631) WMteteys 1071-792 3303).

♦ WHITE SANDS (IS). The FBI black
marketeers and a small-town cop dtase
each other's tails m New Urns An
impenetrable ptoL but lively. Wilem
Dafoe. FAdey Rweke: drector. Roger
Donaldson.

MGM Fulham Read (071-370 2636)
JttGM Haymarket (07 )-8?9 1527)

MGM Trocadero (071 -434 0Q3D
MGM Tottenham Court Road (071 -
6366148).

THEATRE

Formula that fits the prescription

It Runs in the Family

Playhouse

THE curtain rises on a four-door room
where Dr Mortimore is rehearsing the
lecture be must soon deliver to a
congress of neurologists. Within sec*
onds he is interrupted by Dr Connolly,
who holds out the speech Father
Christmas will be making at the
Boxing Day party. The simplest
among us know that Dr Mortimore is
going to pick up the wrong speech and
hurry off to ask the neuro-surgeons
what they want from Santa.

Nothing of the sort happens. Santa’s
speech is never mentioned again,
dumped, presumably, by Ray Cooney
at one of the re-writes of a scrip: that
started out at Guildford five years ago.
However, the need to deliver the
lecture is central to what then happens.
If Mortimore performs well, promo-
tion and a certain knighthood follow,
so it is more than a passing inconve-
nience when a nurse he last saw 1 8
years ago tells him he has an 1 8-year-
old son who wants to meet his dad.

With the erosion , of social taboos,
simple adulteiy is no longer enough to
drive the engine of farce. An illegiti-
mate skinhead provides some extra
fuel, and there still are a few profes-
sions where respectability is expected.
medicine being one: it has become
fearfully familiar territory for farce.
Watching Matron. Sister, doctors and
the eminent consultant stride in. ask an
awkward question, be answered at
random and stride out, the prospect for
a lively evening look poor.

Then a curious shift occurs, about 15
minutes into the evening, when the
consultant (Dennis Ramsaen) repeats

PONALQ COOPER

Balancing act Ray Cooney, Windsor Davies, Jacqueline Clarke, William Harry and John Quayie

a line about the nurse having palpita-
tions in the corridor. Having hitherto
been an impatient and normal mem-
ber of the human race, he now accepts
abnormality as the norm: some part of
the female body is called the corridor
and the nurse has been having
palpitations in it

Cooney constructs his plays artfully.
Most of the characters are the stock of
force as it has been with us for the past
30 years, and he even, cheekily, brings
in a hypodermic to puncture Matron’s

rump. The balancing act on the
window-ledge is new, and directed by
Cooney to look dangerous as well as
funny, but this play also introduces the
character of Bin, a spritely old chap in a
wheelchair, whose function is pretty
dose to that of the Chores in Greek
Tragedy. Played with lip^smacking
relish by Henry McGee, he is the only
person to keep trade of events and, at
moments most irritating to John
Quayie’s inanely smiling Mortimore.
BQl's piping reminders of something

we had forgotten are neatly placed to
harvest laughter.

The moments in this daffy evening
where Cooney's invention fails to work
for me are those when a character is
caught signalling to a conspirator and
converts the gesture into a tap routine
or Kung-Fu display. These unfunny
physical jerks dent the illusion of the
contained, mad world which Cooney
elsewhere charts so engagingly.

Jeremy Kingston

THEATRE .

DANCE

Bucolic and infectious

Mix and match with zest

SPOOFING a spoof is a risky enter-
prise. but Paul Do List's adaptation of
Stella Gibbons’s original novel is
reasonably faithful and offers rich
comic possibilities, as Jeremy Kingston
concluded in his review of the first
production, at Newbury in 1 99 1 . N ow
a National Youth Theatre company is
seizing the opportunities for both
broad and more subtle comedy in a
revival which lights up Greenwich
Theatre more joyously than many of its
more senior recent predecessors.

Gill Shaw’s towering. Wizard-of-
OzIPsycho set is vital to the evening's
success, though in the comparatively
small space available here the large
cast sometimes has trouble getting on
and off as fast as it ought The
costumes (wardrobe supervisor Susan
Howard-Jones) are superb, particular-
ly the authentically clinging dresses.
Lighting (Kevin Fftz-Simons) and
sound (Jeremy Allan) are top-notch.

Lynchpin of the piece is Anna
Francolini, an imperious, indefatiga-
ble and yet touching Flora, overcom-
ing every obstacle with sunny
confidence. This is a sustained and
mature performance of great promise.
The ghastly Starkadder dan is formi-

Cold Comfort Farm

Greenwich

dably headed by Michelle Anthon/s
Aunt Ada (whose rocking-chair is
perched precariously atop the tumble-
down farmhouse), in a selfless, virtuoso
display, grotesquely personifying bile.

Director Deborah Seymour has
done well in differentiating between
die multitude of other characters and
giving due weight to each strand of the
plot. Favourite episodes of the book, in
this antic disguise, gain rather than
lose power. The Qurvering Brethren
sermon and Hawk-Monitor Ball
(movement by Andy Williams) work
beautifully, with the latter dominated
by the dancing of Seth (Tim Briggs,
perfectly controlled) and Elfine (Rachel
Pickup, excellent), whose partnership
reworks Saturday Night Fever as
Saturday Night Vapours.

Space must be found to praise
Simon Famaby as Adam: rustic be-
yond words. Performances continue
until this Saturday.

Tony Patrick

THE enthusiasm and zest of Pace
Dance Company have an infectious
quality. When they went into encore
time, people be^an getting up to run
on stage and join in: until the dance
floor was fufl of bodies jiving or
forming an immense oonga-Iine.

Over here from Cape Town, the
company consists of nine dancers
(some black, some white) supported by
a little spitfire of a singer, and three
players of the band Makwerhu. The
singer. Thoko Magula. does some
dancing too, and the dancers help
rovide music, vocally and with
andhdd percussion.

The company’s aim is to combine
traditional village or town dances with
contemporary theatrical dance. Proba-
bly this has more point back home, and
maybe the ingredients of the mixture
are dearer there.

To an English eye. the modem-
dance elements look simple and naive.
Even the best Bophumtwalu. did not
dig very deep into its theme of barriers
between black and white, although
danced with touching sincerity by Julie
Lock and Sonwabo Masepe.

The band's fusion of reggae and
African and jazz influences worked

Village Dance

The Place

well, and the dancers for the most part
looked best in straightforward num-
bers like the gumboot dance, derived
from South African black
mineworkers. or the lively Mpantsula
jiving from the ciiy ghetioes.

In more ambitious numbers, some
of the dancers looked strained, but the
men showed athletic strength, and the
unnamed tall, slender man. who
twisted as if bonelessly during the song
“Zulu Boy”, was amazing.

Perhaps the season of contemporary
South Asian dance just starting at The
Place (and in Leicester and Manches-
ter) will suggest other ways of combi-
ning old and new. but my reaction to
Pace was that the dancers' strength
and best hope for development might
lie in staying closer to traditional dance
forms and trying to make theatrical
presentations bared on them.

It would be good to see such energy
focused on what it does best

John Percival

THERE was a strange feeling in the
air last Saturday. The second of the
Orpheus Chamber Orchestr a 's three
South Bank concerts was delayed by
the street brawls around Waterloo
Station. Concert-goers were faced with
the sight of riot police holding forma-
tion immediately outside the hall.
Then Allred Brendd. of all people,
experienced a fairly drastic lapse of
memory towards the end of Beetho-
ven’s Fust Piano Concerto. Such
things simply do not normally happen.

Nor do mirades like the precise
ensemble and opulent sound shown by
the Orpheus CO in both this and their
final concert, except in the fairyland of
the recording studio. These musicians,
as usual working without a conductor,
stayed unfazed by B renders misfor-
tune, which came during a typically
elegant and thoughtful account.

Yet there were hints here, as earlier
in Schubert’s D major Overture,
D556. that they had prepared over-

CONCERTS

meticulously. One
yearned for a hint of
spontaneity, for a
feeling that there
was space for the unplanned. Instead
their assurance at times verged danger-
ously on complacency.

But after suffering appalling perfor-
mances for so long, the spirit of
Webern will certainty not be complain-
ing about the wondrous reading his
Five Movements for Strings, Op 5.
received. The players knew exactly how
to let the music do its own speaking,
though with rare sweetness of tone and
sureness of touch.

Again, perhaps this music needed a
measure of uncertainty or fragility,
though Schoenberg’s Second Cham-

fault

her Symphony. Op
38 — a comparative
rarity — suited the
Orpheus’s fruity
qualities welL The performance also
possessed plenty of gutsiness, for all the
refinement of the string and woodwind
sound.

THE following evening began with
Haydn’s Symphony No 53, “The
Imperial", an appropriate mix of
elegance and majesty. In the more
intimate Queen Elizabeth Hall, the
well-defined colours of the woodwind
sounded particularly vivid, and they
provided plenty of drama in Cynthia
Haymon's fiery singing of Haydn’s
Scena di Berenice.

Meticulous to a

Orpheus CO

Festival HaU/QEH

Haymon was less convincing in
Mozart's “Dove sono'\ from Figaro,
where she overdid the outward drama
and stifled the inner thoughtfulness
which the aria is all about likewise the
conceit aria “Bella mia fiamma-
. . . Resta. O cara", K528, might have
benefited from a marginally less force-
ful kind of expression, different in
flavour though it is. Her magnifioent
voice, however, aptly complemented
the players.

After a meticulous performance of
Schubert's ballet music from Rosa-
munde, the Orpheus bade farewell to
London with something quite marvel-
lous. Schoenberg's arrangement for
soring orchestra of his sextet Verkldrte
Nacht was performed with absolute
concentration. Not the slightest gesture
was out of place technicality, and one
was completely enveloped in the emo-
tional ebbs and flows.

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Architecture: Marais Binney salutes the achievements of expatriate Englishman Ralph Erskine, whom he votes leader of the profession

Unsung hero is in
tune with the times

W ho shall wear the crown?

This is the question many
architects are asking follow-
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James soiling, the widely acknowledged
k®"® - onheir profession. My contender is
Ralph Erskine.

•Now in his seventies, he is a man who
has given Ftmctionalism a human face.
While most of Britain’s leading architects

weak principally for developers and com-
mercial clients, hoping for the occasional
phan public commission. Erskine has
remained true to one of modernism's
basic ideals: providing housing for the
people. In Britain the Ron an Point
disaster made many architects in private
practice distance themselves from h rais-
ing: Eisldne positively relishes the
challenge.

So why is his name so little known?
After ail. he won the RIBA’S coveted gold
medal a decade before Richard Rogers
and Norman Foster. But he has spent
most of his working life in Sweden.

He began training in the early 1 930s as
a surveyor. It was an article on Misha
Black's colourful furnishings for the new
BBG headquarters that inspired his
change to architecture. Learning that
“while many architects were short of work,
good architects were in short supply” he
promptly resolved to become a good
architect

His studies drew him to Scandinavia
and in May 1 939 he set off across Sweden
by bicycle, fell in love with the country,
found a job in an architect’s office and
asked his fiancee to join him. They were
married in Stockholm City Hall two days
before war broke out
Suddenly he was without a job. Erskine
was a Quaker and a committed pacifist
and bad been 5 rtracted to Sweden partly
because of its neuTality. His plans to join
the Quaker Ambulance Service in Nor-
way ended when the Germans invaded.
With no hope of returning to England
and no money, he set out to build a one-
room box house on a rocky wooden site
given to him by a farmer. He used any
materials at hand, including loose stones
in the woods and bricks from an
abandoned kiln.

The single-room house was so inge-
nious that it formed the touchstone of his
career. But Swedish winters taught him
one lesson — never again design a house
with an all-glass wall. After the war he
stayed in Sweden, his draughtsmanship
winning enough competitions to support
his family.

In Britain his best-known work, is the
spectacular Byker Wall in Newcastle; a
vast housing project that is easily misun-
derstood, followed recently by London’s
newest landmark, the Arfc the futuristic
office development by Hammersmith
flyover. Right now he is ddivering designs
for new stations on London’s proposed
CrossraiL

Erskine’s latest buildings stand out in
two ways; They are intentionally sculptur-
al, breaking the matchbox image of
Modernism, and brightly coloured. “I’m
a romantic. I like expressive forms,” be

says. But he insists it all grows out of an
analysis of functions. "A writer or poet
decides what to say and then chooses die
most beautiful words to express it”

In functional terms what concerns him
most is the interaction between people.
“The job of buildings is to improve
human relations. Architecture must pa st
them, not make them more difficult” At
the Ark. instead of corridors and fift
lobbies, there are open balconies, terraces
and bridges angled so you can see and
talk to people above and below.

“The more you bring people together,
the more you must give them a chance to
opt oui and be private. It’s beautifully
done in older towns, very badly in modem
ones.” Buildings, he says, must enrich the
towns in which they stand, not destroy
them.

'Hie streamlined forms of his new
university library az Stockholm suggest an
ocean liner, with sloping sides and towers

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Ralph Erskine: “I like expressive
forms . . . The job of buildings
is to improve human relations”

angled like funnels. In die sun the
cladding catches the fight like silver foil
and aluminium gauze, creating spariding
reflections. A particular Erskine touch are
the outside reading balconies, hoisted
high on stills and angled towards the
south like the covered seats on seaside
promenades.

In Stockholm his World Trade Centre
is Hke a vast glass-roofed conservatory
flooded with light The powerfully mod-
died staircase and lift tower shoots out
through Ae roof so that when seen
against a blue sky the effect is like a
reflection in a pool of water. The lower
level of this latter-day Crystal Palace
contains the ultra-degani concourse of the
city’s main bus station, so die public
enjoys the sunlit atrium as much as the
workers in die offices above. The Ham-
mersmith Ark is similar, a huge atrium
enclosed in an egg-shaped shell of glass,
like a transparent dome in a science
fiction drawing.

He talks enthusiastically about his latest
large housing project at Tappstrom, an
island, on a late west of Stockholm-^ “I won

it in a competition but increasingly felt the
whole scheme was wrong. So 1 spent every
weekend entirely changing it The prob-
lem was that the authorities had sold all
the land by the water. I had to persuade
them to buy it back, knock down the
factories that had been biiltt there and put
houses instead.”

He is a passionate devotee of Jane
Jacobs and her theories that the tradition-
al streets and layouts of older towns are
superior to ordered modem ones. “At
Tappstrom we have created 650 dwell-
ings in walking distance of shops,
entertainment and the church.” He is very
keen on creating a mix of both rented and.
privately owned housing. “In Britain local
councils will build exclusively for lower
income people. It's just a way of creating
another ghetto." The problem, be says, is
that no one wants to build cheap housing,
as there is no money in h.

He places special emphasis on land-
scaping. “It’s usually the last element in
the budget and the first to be cut But if
planting is skimped, in my view, a project
is fundamentally flawed. Plants give life.
Everyone enjoys them. lt*s not just trees
and shrubs. It’s birdsong and wildlife. It’s
also very low cost compared to all the other
embellishments you might want” At
Byker he provided new residents with
cheap plants for their gardens. The result
is a suburban lushness almost unknown
on a large housing estate.

Most people have the image of Byker as
a mile-long wall of housing. Erskine
designed it this way to shut out the noise of
an inner-city expressway that was never
built But on the other side the wall, which
is up to 11 storeys high, has fine views
over the city. Better sail is the wealth of
cottage housing below, each house with its
own garden. The budget was restricted,
but strong colour was introduced tiy
brightly-painted wood and even corrugat-
ed plastic.

“I enjoy colour. When I came to
Sweden it was all Cubist modem — big
windows and leaking flat roofs. 1 noticed
how the traditional red houses were much
better in the landscape, especially in
winter when white looks dirty.” At
Tappstrom he uses collage to create a
patchwork effect that gives the impression
of housing that has grown over time.

T he vernacular is a constant
source of inspiration. “You knpw
that book Architecture Without
Architects, illustrating simple
housing forms in southern Europe, Africa
and Asia? They’re some of the most
beautiful buildings you'll ever see."

Erskine has gone to Africa and is
working on projects in Botswana and
Namibia. “Here in Europe I’m gilding
the lity. There they really need advice.
Housing has to be very low cost, of mud or
even corrugated iron. But when you look
dosely at traditional African settlements
they are very sophisticated. In one village
we noticed five different gradations of
space between public and private. There
are fascinating decorative details such as
finger-patting in the sand. And entirely

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Hie interior of Enfltine’s World Trade Centre. Stockholm: “a vast glass-roofed conservatory flooded with light*

done by the women.” Recently he won a
£100,000 prize from the Wolf Founda-
tion. “I put die money in a trust to
encourage low-cost ecological architec-
ture. So tar I’ve given two prizes. First to a
Portuguese architect in Mozambique.
He’d fought the authorities in the war and
is now braiding two half universities; they
can’t afford whole ones. It's afl concrete

blocks and corrugated asbestos but is
beautiful as any I’ve seen.” The other
project is for a leper colony in India which
two young Norwegian architects have
designed and are now building.

How did he cope with his vast and
varied workload and yet still retain
personal involvement in design? “We are
just six people here In my atelier in

Drottningholm. With big projects we go
into partnership with large practices. I
reserve the right to design from the first
sketches down to the details. They do the
working drawings." Does he ever use
computers? “1 always sketch with pen and
paper. I maintain the brain is the best
computer, and the only one with
feelings."

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Cry the
beloved?

GIVEN the rumours about
the impending demise of
Radio 2 in a new. slimmer
BBC. the network's decision to
broadcast a “Country Music
Week” may go down as one of
the zanier suicide notes in
history. Radio 2 chiefs dearly
feel there is a big audience for
a week (October 8-15) of
George Strait. Emmyiou Har-
ris, Tammy Wynette, Nanri
Griffith ana all the rest of the
Tennessee gang.

The week is launched by the
indefatigable Wally Whyton,
introducing the Country
Music Association Awards
from Nashville. It also sees the
start of a weekly series called
New Country presented by
Nick Barradough. “My mis-
sion in life,” says Barradough.
"is to make countiy music so
hip that my wife stops ducking
like a chicken whenever she
hears a country song." : e
sceptics may wonder whu ner
saturation coverage on Radio
2 is the most obvious way of
fulfilling this ambition.

Name game

THE Academy of St Martin-
in-the-Fields may not quite

have the longest name in toe
orchestral world, but it certain-
ly has one of the most famous.
Much heart-searching, then,
must have accompanied its
decision to change its image, '
thanks to sponsorship from a
Canadian - telephone com-
pany, Northern Tdecom.

Patronage worth £125.000
is paying for a new corporate
image: it involves the last six
words of its name being all but
dropped in its new logo. The
sponsorship also gives the
o rch est ra a composer-in-resi-
dence for three years, phis a
series of odour Tube posters
designed fay the Mexican art-
ist, Leonard Nierroan.

Last chance .. .

JN CLAIRE DOWIE’s Death
and Dancing both the crop-
haired characters are named
Max, and when first seen (in a
gay disco) they look pretty well
identical. But one. Dowie her-
self, is a woman — to the initial
dismay of the other, Mark
Pinkosh.

Their relationship is a dash-
ing variant on the familiar
story of girl meets bey. boy
leaves girl, boy searches for
girl. A play of wit and appeal-
ing devilry. The last perfor-
mance is at BAG Battersea
(071-223 2223) on Sunday, a
national tour starts at Aider-
shot on September 24.

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Angela Carter for her, goodness and truth were not discovered, but remembered

O nce upon a time, writ-
ers left their testa-
ments on paper.
Angela Carter apparently
wanted last night’s Omnibus
(BBC 1). which was made
shortly before she died in
February this year aged only
52, to be her memorial Her
preference for images on film
over the written word, even in
so personal a document, was
quite in character.

She was this country’s fairy
godmother of magic realism,
never a purely literary move-
ment, and an author of several
successful screenplays, includ-
ing The Company of Wolves.
Has was a cinematic imagi-
nation. and central to it was
her belief that stars such as
Louise Brooks or Marlene
Dietrich had been completely
invented personalities, even
faces.

Carter’s literary life revolved
around this problematic, self-
created identity. The Omnibus
programme, Angela Carter’s
Mysterious Room, returned
repeatedly (and, it must be
said, rather tiresomely) to the
image of a room, full of
wonderful objects, from which
we are perpetually excluded
and which we spend an our
time frying to remember. This
metaphor, which seems to
have been important to her,
was reminiscent both of the
Garden of Eden and of Plato’s
cave: goodness and truth are
not discovered, but remem-
bered.

The programme concentrat-
ed on her childhood and
youth. It was an idealised

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was also interviewed, he told
us only that Angela had been a
very fat adolescent who had
suddenly transformed herself
into a sylph. We learned
nothing about their family
except die private world which
Angela invented for herself, in
which docks never told die
right time and her journalist
father took her to the sumptu-
ous art deco picture palace in
Balham.

Everything about Angela's
youth appeared to be a por-
tent. Her mother was told she
was pregnant on the day war
was declared. Her lack of
makeup and her fishnet stock-
ings were insisted on by her
mother when she began her
first job — but fashions had
changed, and by the late
Fifties this was the get-up of a
demi-mondaine. Her fife con-
sisted of a sequence of
metamorphoses.

Once the lovely butterfly of
her girlhood had acquired the
“long antennae of the intdlee-

Myth sounding like a hit

A fter Freud had startled
the worid with his de-
scription of the Oedi-
pus complex, there was a spate
of new translations of
Sophocles's play about the
doomed king. W.B. Yeats
began one in 1904 and tin-
kered with it for over 25 years
— but he was satisfied with it
in the end, and declared that
he had produced a “plain
man’s Oedipuf'.

This was the translation that
John Theocharis used in his
Sunday Play, King Oedipus
on Radio 3. It has a slight
bloom of Shakespearisms, but
it is mostly in straightforward,
robust English. Gilbert Mur-
ray, who himself wrote a
rather woolly verse translation
in 1911, said that the great
scene where Queen Jocasta
innocently reveals the fatal
truth to her husband-and-son
is like Ibsen. That was the
mode in which Theocharis
cast his production.

Dorothy Turin as Jocasta
provided the outstanding per-
formance of the evening. The
moment when she in her turn
realises that the prophecy is
true — Oedipus is her aban-
doned child — and rushes out
to kill hexselt was the emotion-
al high point of the [day.
Robert Lindsay (leaping the
vast distance from Citizen
Smith to King Oedipus) gave
us a dignified, stubborn hero,
though I thought his deter-
minedly measured response to
some of the revelations was
just a bit too flat
Paul Daneman made an
excellent contrast as Creon,
Oedipus’s brother-in-law. re-
laxed, even jocular as he
brushed aside the long’s suspi-
cious accusations of treachery. |
His performance pointed up
Oedipus’s terrible isolation.
Only Peter Vaughan as Tiresi-
as seemed to have misjudged
his tone of voice. It was in the
spirit of the production to
make him more of a querulous
old man than a soothsayer, but
he ended up sounding like a
stray from DadrsAmy.

Gilbert Murray thought
that the sophisticated Sopho-
cles did not himself consider

tual", once Angela Carter had
become "Angela Carter”, how-
ever. “everything" became pol-
itical She even managed to
make something sinister out of
the gentrification of Balham.
delivering this cocktail-cur-
dling warning: “Double park-
ing your Porsche" — so people
in Balham still preserve these
ancient customs? — “is a
political act!”

She also became rather a
fierce literary critic. Her obiter
dictum on Shakespeare — “a
lovable man, but I’m afraid
not very dever” — left one
eager for more, perhaps on her
contemporaries and rivals: bur
instead the film doubled bads
on itself, with more mystical
stuff about the search for
knowledge and truth being
redly an attempt to return to
die time before one was born.

Mumbo jumbo or magic? It
depends whether you respond
to her insistent appeal to the
submerged adolescent in all of
us. Carter had become very
grand by the end of her life, a
sublimation of the narcissism
which was evidently a part of
her invented personality from
the beginning. In her work,
though, she retained an au-
thentic awe in the presence of
nature, a childlike fascination
with die infinite mutability of
die visible world. Her own
world was different she re-
fused, she said, to allow her
characters any autonomy: a
writer who could not keep ,
control of her creations should
be ashamed of herself. |

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afl the psychological realism of
the play its author was con-
sciously evoking a primitive
era of Greek history. That
aspect of the drama was
brought out by Christos
Pittas's haunting music, which
marvellously conjured up the
frightening atmosphere of
Thebes, this city “stumbling
towards death” with its wail-
ing chorus in the streets.

Over on Radio 4. another
great city was getting an airing
in the first part of a

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not much sense of the atmo-
sphere of Balzac’s Paris here.
It is such a teeming novel that
it has to be stripped down to
the barest bones to make a
radio play. However the
adapter. David Hopkins,
made a lucid job of iL with
Stephen Fry narrating rather
cosily, and Douglas Hodge
winning our sympathy as the
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Come home, Jacopo Bassano

Philip Rylands goes into the Italian
countryside to see a 400 th-anniversaiy
exhibition of a late Venetian painter

MATIONAL GALLERY

Mannerist masterpiece: Bassano’s Way of Calvary, with the Monte del Grappa in the background

I n the National Gallery in
London. Christ kneels in a
bleached purple robe, his beau-
tiful face looking rather absent-
ly at a large white doth held before
him by St Veronica, who gazes back
with an open-mouthed look of expec-
tancy. All around there are horse-
men". soldiers and weeping women,
in the for distance, a hump-backed
mountain' like a great solitary Skid-
daw. is silhouetted blue against a
storm-threatened sunset. The moun-
tain is a portrait of the Monte del
Grappa, which looms over the little
north Italian town of Bassano. home
of that ferocious Italian liqueur which
is sold in osterie near its famous
bridge over the Brenta.

It Is one of the oddities of Flemish
and Italian Renaissance paintings
that religious scenes are set in local
landscapes — nativities on plateaux
high above Umbria, baptisms in
tributaries of the Adige, dying BVMs
with a view through the window to
Mantua. Jacopo Bassano. who paint-
ed the Way of Catvary described
above, is so completely identified with
the little town whose name he took,
and where he lived for most of his life,
that the exhibition which was inau-
gurated there last week by Giovanni
Spadolini. president of the Italian
Senate, amounts as much to a
celebration of Bassano as of its
eponymous Jacopo.

Jacopo Bassano died 400 years ago
on February 13. aged 82. In the
Venetian Cinquecento Olympics, he
gets the bronze medal, trailing be-
hind Titian (gold), Tinforetto and
Veronese (joint silver). He was given
some prominence in the “Genius of
Venice" exhibition in 1983 at the
Royal Academy, and it was on this
occasion that two museum directors
independently conceived the idea of a
commemorative exhibition for 1 992:
Paolo Marini of the Museo Civico,
Bassano. and Edmund Pills bury of
the KimbeU Art Museum. Fort
Worth. Forces were eventually joined,
and the present exhibition — the first
since 1957 — takes place now in
Bassano and later in Texas.

Bassano has always been most
widely known for his hybrid Bible
and farmyard scenes. From the mid-
1560s onwards. Jacopo, and the
workshop populated by his sons,
produced large numbers of these
paintings veiled as. for example. The
Adoration of the Shepherds, or The
Parable of the Sower. However, these
rather oppressive pastorals (the light
is always crepuscular, and the realism
is offset by artificial postures and
figure types left over from the
language of Mannerism) can pall.
They are a mere by-product of
Jacopo's varied career, in which he

painted many works of astounding
beauty.

He started out in his father's
workshop in Bassano. But his swift
apprehension of die mature ait of
Titian, as well as of Emilian and
Roman Mannerism, hurtled him
into the small band of die best
painters of the Venetian
Cinquecento.

In 1533 he went to Venice, then
dominated by the rival geniuses of
Titian and Pordenone. The most
prolific workshop was that of
Bonifacio de Pitati. and there Jacopo
found work. A provincial taste for
realism gradually came to be modi-
fied by a cosmopolitan stylishness —
the aristocratic women, androgynous
men. fluid limbs, arid colours, and
sophisticated drawing associated
with Mannerism.

Two altarpieces, side by side in the
exhibition, dramatise this. A stocky,
muscular St Jerome, a peasant-like St
Francis, a plain-featured St Anne
with a chubby Infant Virgin in the Sr
Anne Enthroned with Saints ^pify
his early work, influenced by die
coarser style of Pordenone or
Bonifacio. The piece might be a
tableau viva nr from some rustic
festival. A year later, a Madonna and
Child with Sts Martin and Anthony
Abbot is identical in composition, but
looks instead like a court masque.

T he delicate-featured Ma-
donna comes from Parmi-
gianino's etchings. Radiant
lights, quite different from
his former rather dead light, play
across the folds of St Martin's robes;
the finely chiselled small heads, the
slender fingers, and the rarefied,
ecstatic expressions belong to the
dimate of Mannerism.

The extent to which Venice could
be said to have had a Mannerist
phase was the subject of an exhibition
at the Doge’s Palace a few years ago.
What we gain from Jacopo Bassano’s
art is both a revelation and a
recognition — the revelation of a
Venetian artist who. for two decades,
produced exquisite. Mannerist works
of art and a fresh recognition of the
beauties of which this style was
capable. The National Gallery’s Way
of Calvary is a perfect example. Back
in Bassano. with the joy of a new-
found freedom. Jacopo experimented
in subsequent years with paintings in
which artifice is uppermost — he
streamlines Mannerist forms in
strange dreamlike paintings of the
utmost virtuosity. A Way of Calvary
from Budapest, a Beheading of St
John the Baptist from Copenhagen,
and a Lazarus and Dives from
Cleveland, rank high in Mannerist
production anywhere in Italy.

Anaharpieoeof 1 56 1 . the Crucifix-
ion with Saints (Treviso, Museo
Civico) terminates Jacopo’s Manner-
ist phase and marks the return to
normality of posture, and realism of
light and texture. Jacopo's debt here
was above all to Titian. The repertoire
of feeling and gesture, the variety of
human response (contemplative, im-
passioned. intellectual), the changing
postures and controlled asymmetry,
together with a high finish of surface
and light effects, make this one of the
absolute masterpieces of the late
Italian Renaissance.

Like many of the works in the
exhibition, the Crucifixion has been
cleaned for the occasion. It is thus
possible for the first time to perceive
the blue-veined muscularity of Je-
rome’s titanic back, the trembling
softness of Mary Magdalen's tearful
gaze, the rich hues of red, blue and

green, or the noble but real physique
of Jesus Christ Only the absurdly
windswept loincloth survives as a
caprice of Mannerist decorativeness.

It used to be assumed that the old
Jacopo, with failin g eyesight retired
from his trade around 1580. soon
after completing his great altarpieoe
of St Martin and the Beggar [Museo
Civico. Bassano). Thanks however to
some revisionist art history in the
1960s, conducted by the two living
experts on Jacopo Bassano.
Alessandro Ballarin and W Roger
Rearick. we now have a corpus of
paintings representing his ultima
maniern in the 1 580s. Realism yields
to the loose brushstroke: a painterli-
ness of incredible mastery. The
dimmed light of these paintings
might follow from Jacopo’s dimmed
. eyesight were it not that this palette
was shared by all Venetian painters of

the time, including Titian, who had
died in 1576 but whose unfinished
paintings may have promoted this
precocious “impressionism”.

The town of Bassano. with its
gourmet shops and its Ponte Vecchio
attributed to Palladia is worth visit-
ing at all seasons. But the homage to
its most famous son is a marvellous
new incentive. The installation of the
exhibition, with a chest-high dado to
distance the crowds, is intelligently
designed to enable the visitor to see
the works comfortably, and to follow
the extraordinary, even mercurial
changes in Jacopo’s art

• Jacopo Bassano. Museo Civico,
Bassano. Italy, until December 5, 1992.
and Kimbell' Art Museum. Forth Worth.
Texas. January 23 April 25. 1 993.

Philip Rylands is director of the Peggy
Guggenheim museum in Venice.

Waterloo

revisited

David Bartal on the Abba revival
— and what they are all doing now

A bba. the glittery Swed-

/\ ish pop group which
.XX dazzled and delighted
millions of .fens worldwide
during the 1970s. is back. No.
Bjorn.- Benny. ’Agnetha and
Frida aren't ready to jump into
their old flared velvet pants
and strike up.a rousing chorus
of “Dancing Queen". But
their melodic, polished music
arid flamboyant style has at-
tracted a host of imitators and
new fens who were toddlers
when Abba-fever first raged.

No one has done more to
bring Abba to centre-stage in
-the 1990s than the modem
pop group Erasure. English-
men Vince Clarke and Andy
BdL who in their live act dress
fetch ingly as Abba girls
Agnetha and Frida, topped
UK charts for five weeks in
spring with their extended-
play single “Abba-esque”.
which contains four of the
Swedes’ biggest hits.

“Erasure helped a new gen-
eration to discover the group,
and a lot of old fens
haw come out oi the
closet and admitted
they liked their music
all along." says Steve
Blame, an MTV disc
jockey.

With 1 SO million
records sold, more
than a few hard rock
fens must have been
shuffling out of record
shops for years with
Abba albums con-
cealed in brown paper
wrappers. And the
soft rock success saga
isn’t over yet. Under
the guidance of the
original Abba engi-
neer Michael
B.TretDw. a digitally
re-mastered collection
of the best 19 Abba
tunes will be released
on September 21.

It is now ten years
since Abba's last song
“The Day Before You
Came” was released, and IS
years since the group won the
Eurovision Song Contest at
Brighton with "Waterloo".

Partly to commemorate the
tenth anniversary of Abba’s
demise, a chorus of modem
Swedish artists has produced
an album of new versions of
Abba hits. The Australian
group Bjorn Again also sings
and imitates Abba. But the
most exotic of all the Abba

spin-offs are probably Paki-
stani sisters Salma and
Sabina, who sing .Abba
favourites in Hindi.

Despite the flurry of enthusi-
asm. a reunion of the now
middle-aged performers is inv
likely. AH of the original Abba
members are now doing very
well on their own. Agnetha
Faliskog. 42, produced a
record of children’s music and
two solo albums after her
career with Abba but has now
deliberately sought a life with
her two teenage children far
from the reach piajutograpk
hounds and newspaper
reporters-

Bjom Ulveus. 47. is current-
ly helping former Abba mate
Benny Andersson. 45, pro-
duce a new musical about
Swedes who emigrated to
America during the Last
century.

Benny Andersson also wrote
the music for Chess and. going
ba ck to his folk music roots,
made two albums with a

Annafrid (Frida) Lyngstad.
who heads an environmental
group in Sweden, figured
prominently in gossip col-
umns recently when she mar-
ried her long-time boyfriend
Russo Reuss, an Italian
prince. The light-hearted disco
era which Abba helped usher
out may be over, but the Abba
fairytale lives on.

Abba: when they were together

group of Swedish accor-
dionists.

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FESTIVAL: BERLINER FESTWOCHEN

Welcome to Prague

ARCHIE KENT

A world of nightmarish comedy: Wolfgang Schone and Peter Matte in DasSchloss

T he Berliner Festwochen
festival, which this year
focuses on Prague, got
off to a resounding start with
Aribert Reimann's opera Das
Schloss (The Castle) based on
Kafka’s novel and spcially
commissioned by the Berliner
Festwochen and the Deutsche
Oper.

Bom in Berlin in 1936.
Reiman n has successfully
transformed a number of
plays into operas and his Lear.
composed in f97S. is viewed
by many German critics as
one of the great operas of the
century, ranking alongside
Berg's Wozzeck and Zimmer-
mznn's Soldaten.

Reimann’s achievement in
Das Schloss is to have created
a thoroughly original work
while finding a common voice
with Kafka, so that there is
never a sense of disjunction
between the writer and the
composer. Each character has
been given both an individual
singing style and a particular
musical accompaniment.
Thus. Wolfgang Schone. the
baritone who sings the part of
K. is often accompanied by the
a double bass, whOe other
characters are marked, say. by
sounds of glockenspiel and
xylophone.

A huge cylinder takes up
most of the stage, rotatingwith
each scene to reveal a village
inn. municipal offices or ICs
rented room. The Kafka esque

world created by director Willy
Decker and designer Wolf-
gang Gussmann is both night-
marish and amusing, peopled
by comic grotesques such as
K's assistants. Jeremiah and
Arthur, a classic comic duo in
the tradition of Laurel and
Hardy or Beckett's Vladimir
and Estragon. Reimann intro-
duces a note of pathos which is
not always present in the novel
and the final scene in which K.
stands in a telephone box
making one last, doomed at-
tempt at human contact, is ex-
ceptionally poignant

V adav Havel, the Czech
president, came to Ber-
lin last week to see a
performance of a play he wrote
in 1972. a version of the The
Beggars’ Opera in a produc-
tion by the Cinohemi klub.

As one of the most daring'
political theatres in Prague
during the late 1960s and
early 1970s, the Cinohemi
klub was a frequent target for
state repression and many of
its leading figures were forced
to. move abroad during the
1970s. including Jiri MenzeL
who directed this new produc-
tion of Havel's play.

Just as Bertolt Brecht found
a contemporary resonance in
John Gay's 1 8th-oentury play
when he wrote The Threepen-
ny Opera, Havel uses this tale
of police and thieves in the
London underworld to explore

the theme which underlies all
his work: the crisis in human
relationships. For Have! the
centra] question is. “Who
serves whom?", and he ends
the play with the words of a
corrupt magistrate who has
taken control of both police
and criminals: “He who
knows not whom he serves,
serves best"

Great expectations awaited
this production on its arrival in
Berlin and it was well received,
despite a lade of excitement in
the direction and a great deal
of mannered acting and old-
fashioned danking of props.

Although the orchestral con-
certs boasting big names such
as Claudio Abbado and
Riocardo Muti have been sold
out. most of the events at this
year's Festwochen have been
poorfy attended, even though
the standard of work on offer
is high. The organisers blame
the increased competition for
audiences in Berlin, but at a
time when money is in shorter
supply than before, these low
box office returns could spell
the end for this festival, which
has been a major fixture in
Berlin’s cultural calendar for
42 years.

Denis Staunton

• The Berliner Fesiwochen con-
tinues until September 27.

The next performance of Das
Schloss Is at the Deutsche Oper on
October- 1 .

• EISENSTADT: The
Haydn Festival continues this
month in the house where the
composer lived and worked
for 40 years: the Esterhtizy
Palace in EisenstadL Austria.
EsteiMzy Palace. EisenstadL
Austria (010 4326 8261 866).

• GENEVA: Geneva’s Grand
Theatre stages a new produc-
tion of Gustave Charpentier’s
opera Louise. Although Louise
was very successful when it
was first produced in 1 900. its
sequel J alien failed. Maty
Mills plays Louise, Maureen
Forrester, the mother, Greg-
ory Kunde, Julien. and Jean-
Phflippe Courtis, the father.
Annin Jordan conducts.

Le Grand Thtttre de Geneve.
Place Neuve (010 4122 212
311). September 18, 21. 24.
27.

• LTNZ: The International
Bruckner Festival continues
until October 4. Luciano Berio
conducts his vocal ensemble
Electric Phoenix (October 2):
Brigine Fassbaender gives a
recital of works by Schreker.
Bruckner. Brahms and Dvo-
rak (September 24); Kathryn
Harries and Wolfgang
Schmidt perform in Wagner's
opera DerFliegende Holland-
er (September 20); and Marek
Janowski conducts the Phil-
harmonic Radio Orchestra of
France (September 26. 27).
Brncknerhans, Untere
Donaulande 7. Postfach 57,
A-4010 Linz (010 43 732 275
230).

• NANTES: Nantes Opera
will be staging Gasparo
Sponiini’s rarely performed
opera la Vestale next month.
The opera was one of the
first to reflect the taste
of the Napoleonic era for
operas with sumptous produc-
tion and plots with histo-
rical and political significance.
The conductor is Giuliano
Carella.

I/Optra de Nantes. 1 rue
Molfere (010 33 404 1 9060).
October 7.9, 11.

• PARIS: The Baroque Festi-
val takes place in and around
the Palace of Versailles. In the

Royal, performances of
Glucks Armide with the Or-
chestra and Choir of
Musiriens du Louvre (Septem-
ber 1 7. 1 9. 20): and Rameau's
Castor et Pollux by Les Arts
Florissants (September 23).
Festival Baroque de Vet*
sasOes, Chateau de Versailles.
(010 331 3084 7627). Until
October 1 7.

LIFE & TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 6 1992

MODERN TIMES: WOMEN 5

Too much life
on earth

June Goodfield’s programme The
Cosmic Joke gives warning of a
future with population out of control

Streetwise in any of six languages: Iva PekArkovA says cab driving in New York is delightful — each customer has the potential to become an encounter, or a new story

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any people might con-
sider it strange, if not
downright irrespons-
ible, that an intelligent
woman of tender years should spend
her nights driving a yellow cab in
New York. Taxi drivers do not last
long in this dty — 33 were murdered
in their cabs last year. The driver of
taxi 3Y50 has been robbed both at
gunpoint and knifepoint She loves
her job.

For a dollar. Iva PekArkovA will sell
you “The Book of Iva". an eight-page
pamphlet in which the 29-year-old .
cabbie answers the questions most
frequently asked by passengers: “My
name is Iva. pronounced l Ee-va^ not
‘Eye-va’. I come from Czedioslovakia
and I am Czech, not Czechoslovak
and not Check." Before driving for
two years, she was also “a mediocre
social worker in the South Bronx, a
lousy waitress, and a catastrophic
bartender. I think I’m a pretly decent
cabbie."

She is now also an , author. Truck
Stop Rainbows .. . a ^erauaogoes^
Czech road novel' is published in' '
America this month by New York's
swankiest literary publishers. Farrar,
Straus and Giroux.

The economic consequences of this
momentous event are that Ms
PekarkovA can now cut her driving ■
down to three 5pm-to-5am shifts a
week instead of five. A good night
nets $90 (£46) once the fee is paid to
her " Russian mafioso" cab company.

A bad one nets $45-

Despite that, she does not wish to
give up work which she considers
delightful Each customer has the
potential to become an encounter, or
a new story. The pamphlet lists the
other advantages: “I get up at 1 pm. I
can take a day off any time J feel like
it 1 know the city inside and out —
and therefore it's hard not to love it
I Ve learned a lot about other cabdriv-
ers’ lives and desires, and I know how
to say ‘mother in 16

languages."''

As well as that mainstay of the
cabbie’s vocabulary, Ms PekarkovA
can also speak six languages — seven,
if she now counts Serbo-Croat a s two
— well enough to hold a conversa-
tion. Her extensive American vocabu-
lary indudes, tonight the' word
"dlscombobulated". These language
skills allowed her to hitchhike her
way out of Czechoslovakia in 1985.

when it was still a communist country - ,
“devoted to the eradication of rain-
bows". as she describes it in her book.

A cabbie on the
road to freedom

Iva Pekarkova fled Prague carrying her novel in her head. Now her
journey has taken her to the streets of New York. Kate Muir reports

Times Square, that shrine to neon
capitalism, could not be further from
her past The taxi bowls and bounces
through the post-theatre traffic. Ms
PekAikova points out that she is not at
her best when talking and driving at
once. Between a series of dramatic
near-misses, she explains how she
carried Truck Stop Rainbows away
from Czedioslovakia half-written in
"her head, fearing that the manuscript
would be confiscated. She put it on
paper in a concentrated burst of
about ten weeks when she was
relocated as a refugee to Boston.

The story is of a 25-year-old
photographer who rebels against the
communist repression, the dreary
anonymous housing complexes and
the industrial pollution of Prague.
She spends her time in escapist
hitchhiking across the country on the
Northern Road, where she finds the
serendipity she seek s in casual affairs
with nameless truckers and adven-
tures on the road. For a time, to help
an increasingly ill friend, her affairs
merge into prostitution, the only easy
source of hard currency.

The same grey uniformity frustrat-
ed Ms PekAikovA in real life. Because
her parents did not have a “clean"
political record, she stood no chance
of studying popular subjects such as
literature at university. Instead, she,
took microbiology. “At least that was
socialist-proof. You cant propa-
gandise cells." A year before gradua-
tion, she jettisoned her degree in
favour of the freedom to write abroad.

Although tiie book is set in the late
1980s, it is 'the document of a lost
age: “We were nothing but serial
numbers. Precisely catalogued, mass-
produced screws in the machinery of
■ a single, enormous filthy factory for
the defiling of the sky and the
homogenisation of rainbows."

The new, liberated Prague does not
meet entirely with her approval. The'
downtown part of the dty has been so
commercialised, it reminds her of the
tackiness of Coney Island. Tourists,
on hearing of her roots. teD her how
cheap Prague is, at 50 cents for a
beer, not realising the locals still find
it hard enough paying ten cents for
one. "IPs getting to be the Bangkok of
Europe — a place to gp for cheap
sex."

The seedier side of Western capital-
ism is right in front of her nose every
night She knows which homeless
people will be on which comers in the
small hours, and has regular conver-
sations with them. Having moved 1 1
times in her four years in the dty, she
knows the free housing market is also
expensive. Indeed, she only acquired
her present studio flat on the Upper
East Side because a Czech friend was
pursued all the way to the States by
his overbearing mother. “She just
loves him too much, and chases him
round the globe.” He was forced to
become a sailor to escape.

H er own mother died
when she was aged 1 7,
and she does not have
much in common with
her father. As an only child, she had
few ties in Prague, and the West
beckoned ever-brighter. “in Czecho-
slovakia my book has a naked angel
on the cover, because it was done by a
company that usually publishes more
downmarket stuff. My father thinks
it's shocking and he hasn't read it,”
she says, shrugging. “Over there, I
got $200 and a couple of beers for the
rights to it ThaPs how business gets
done there now."

The word beer puts her in mind of
one, and she stops to continue the rest
of the conversation in safety at the

Gulf bar on the West Side highway,
it has fairyiights on the windows and
an old Gulf petrol sign. At the bar
there is a far man with a T-shirt which
says: “Com fed. Inbred. Brain
Dead." Ms PekarkovA takes her late-
night breaks here.

Rough streets and unsavoury sa-
loons hold no fears for her. “I’ve lived
for a year in an Austrian refugee
camp," she says, as though brandish-
ing a badge of honour. “It was
infamous. We were supposed to have
a men’s house, a women's house and
a family house, but of course it didn’t
work out I shared a room with eight
girls — and that meant five of their
boyfriends too, and whoever else
came in. Alter awhile, I left because I
felt safer on the road."

Whether it is m a taxi, or the cab of
a European truck. Ms PekArkovA is
only comfortable when she is on the
move. She decided hitchhiking was
her best method of escape from
communism, and managed, after
two years of bureaucracy, to get a visa
which allowed her into Yugoslavia.
As soon as she tried to sneak over the
Austrian border, she was thrown into
jail. “They kept me among the border
whores for two days." she says,
screwing up her face. The police took
her papers and put her on a train
back home through Hungary, but
she got off at the first stop and started
hitching to the Italian border instead.

“An English truck driver stopped
— he had been a sailor and had
tattoos afl over the place and a ring in
his ear to signify he'd crossed the
equator. I told him I wanted to get to
Italy, but I didn’t have a passport so
he took me to a hill a few kilometres
from the border, pointed me in the
right direction and gave me a map.
He waited with me until it gdt dark,
and then said he'd meet me again at

the other side. And he was there. He
said: ‘Welcome to the free world’, and
1 was crying like heU 1 didn't know
where to go. I didn’t know about the
refugee camps, so I went to Venice.”

She dodged the machine guns of
border posts only to find herself faced
fciy handguns in her new occupation.
- Although her taxicab has a thick
perspex partition between the passen-
gers’ seats and the driver, she forgot
to lock her door one day when two
men got in. They directed her to a
deserted street, and one got out,
opened her door, and pointed a gun
at her stomach.

She remembers his words precise-
ly. “He said: 'White Mama, give me
all you’ money or lH blow you’ brains
ouf. His grasp of anatomy wasn't
good, since he was aiming at my
stomach. I gave him the moneybag I
always wear, and it was afl over
within 30 seconds. Afterwards. I
thought it was very professionally
done."

The day before this interview, she
had put herself at risk again, picking
up what she thought was a single
man in a dodgy area of Harlem. But
when she stopped, six men tried to
squash into the cab. She was about to
tell them to get out. when she thought
belter of it and took them 20 blocks
for free.

Ms PekAricovA is blessed with an
instinct for survival, and an ability to
storytell her way out of almost
anything. She acknowledges she has
used up a number of live, and she
may not have so many left “You've
got to be careful you don’t become too
toughened by it afl." she says, shifting
another Dixie beer. But her soft side
remains in her writing, and, it turns
out, when she talks about her
occasional loves. There is not room
here to go into her two-year Muslim
mamage with a Pakistani New
Yorker, which ended in divorce when
his mother found him a suitable 1 9-
year-old from Bangladesh. Or to
discuss her friendship with a photog-
rapher in the dty. But on her last visit
to Prague this summer, she met a
Czech man who was unexpectedly
wonderful. They phone and write,
separated by her refusal to live in
Prague, and his ineligibility for an
American visa. But he is half French.

A French West African taxi driver
is helping Ms PekAikovA polish her
verbs and vocabulary. She muses on
moving to Paris one day. She has to
keep travelling until she finds a
home.

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A ccording to a survey
conducted for last
vreek's The Time...
The Place . . . (TTV). of die 22
million married people in this
country about 19 percent (2.5
millio n) of women say they
would like a different husband
and 1 1 per cent of men think
that they have married the
wrong woman.

The figures support the fact
(hat more women initiate di-
vorce today; perhaps they also
reflect the research showing
that unmarried women are on
the whole healthier than mar-
ried women (the reverse is true
for men) and the report pub-
lished this week which sug-
gested that the numbers of
happy, healthy people living
on their own were increasing.

“It seems that marriage is
not actually very good for
some women," Gillian Wal-
ton, head of training at the
London Marriage Guidance
Council says. She believes that
recent cultural trends been
damaging towards relation-
ships. “People have tended to
blame others, like their par-
ents, when something goes
wrong. There hasn’t been
great encouragement for
people to take responsibility
for themselves-"

Christopher Chilow. direc-
tor of the Tavistock I nstituie of
Marital Studies, believes that
the survey reveals over-extend-
ed expectations of wedlock. If
marriages are to develop then
conflict between partners is

Love, honour
and hatred

If singles are happier and healthier,
why resist unmarried bliss?

inevitable, he maintains.
“Hate is as much an aspect of
love when you hit a difference.
There are times when you
want your partner to get lost,
but that’s not terminal”

By choosing not to tackle a
tough situation, Mr Chilow

feels that couples

can throw away
what could be a
chance to learn
not only about
each other but
about themselves.

"If you take the
exit route straight
away you, rob

yourself of that op-

ponuniryandmay
repeat the pattern with some-
one else," he says, pointing to
research from Bristol Univer-
sity which shows that nearly
30 per cent of a sample of
divorcees regretted ending
their marriages.

Marital counsellors often
see recently married young
couples whose behaviour and

Conflict
between
partners is
inevitable

denly since their wedding day.

“The most common prob-
lem can be sex. Once married,
people can go off it because
quite unconsciously they stop
being themselves and become
their parents. The amount of
times they make love can
decline dramati-
cally from very fre-
quently to
infrequently,”
Mrs Walton says.
“Through their
parents, children
pick up whether
sex is OK within
marriage. It is
very subtle, they
do not actually
see their parents
touching all the time to know
whether something is going
on or not."

“Everyone yawns when you
say communication, but it
boils down to that," says Sarah
Litvinoff. author of two practi-
cal Relate guide books, who
advocates a careful airing of

have to

feelings have changed sud- grievances. This means have

proper talks, not rows, other-
wise the angry person just
makes their point and the
other feels attacked.

If the washing-up or the
dipping of toenails represents
tiny niggles now, Ms Litvinoff
advises people not to ignore
them. “Many people strategi-
cally withdraw from them:
part of them shins down
towards their partners so that
after several years the accumu-
lation leaves the two cut off
from each other and with a
crisis of major proportions."

Too often couples plough
through no-go areas in the
name of hue intimacy, warns
Ms litvinoff. “People treat
each other in a way they
wouldn't dream of treating
anyone eke. saying very dam-
aging things. Is that being
intimate or taking advantage
of a situation where, because
you are bound together, you
fed you can say anything?”
She advises couples to treat
each other as they would a
good friend, to act with consid-
eration. respect and love, and
that means not saying or
doing dungs at certain times.

She dtes the stoiy of two
American psychologists who,
as an experiment, decided, on
the point of divorce, to behave
as if they liked one another
and were happily married, for
a period of three months. By
the end of that time they had
decide not to get divorced.

Joanna Gibbon

J une Goodfield is an un-
likely prophet of apoca-
lyptic doom, being in
appearance and manner rath-
er more Miss Marple than
Mahhus, and. indeed, when
she was young she vowed
always to be cheerful and
optimistic in her old age. At
65. however, she fears the
world may hove called her
bluff.

In a little less than her
lifetime the earth’s population
has expanded from two billion
to more than five billion. The
problems of — and possible
solutions to — over-population
are the subject of two films Dr
Goodfield has made 10 . be
shown on BBC 2 over the next
two Saturdays titled The Cos-
micJoke. The title comes from
a passage in Steinbeck’s Sweet
Thursday: “Man has solved
his problems . . . The old live
on. the young do not die. .. In
a foreseeable future we shall be
smothered by our own num-
bers ... It is a cosmic joke. Pre-
occupation with survival has
set the stage for extinction."

Dr Goodfield made a simi-
lar connection when she was
researching a book on medical
advances which later became
an award-winning Channel 4
series. From the Face of the
Earth. “1 became more and
more aware that all these
medical and health benefits
were being purchased at a
price and thai the price was an
explosion in the numbers of
human beings.

“It is not only that absolute
numbers have grown but that
the rate at which they grow is
increasing. For every person
that dies now three
are bom."

Dr Goodfield
does not speak
lightly about the
need to have fewer
babies. Her delight
in children shines
through the pro-
grammes and her
inability to have
any herself has
been a mailer of
great sadness. She
is also sensitive to
the unease many
people fed about
asking those with
least to make the
greatest sacrifice.

“If we are looking at this
environmentally then the best
thing would be to stop the
West having children because
an American child consumes
400 times the earth's resources
more than, for instance, die
Ghanaian. But suppose you
waved a magic wand and
eliminated those one billion,
you would not obviate the
problem. You would still have
five billion doubling in finite
periods of time.

“We really have no right to
tefl other people how many

children to have. But 1 think
we all hare the right to choice
and what most women don’t
have is any choice. If you give
them all the information and
technolog} that enables us tu
make choices and they thcr.
say ‘sorry but I'm still going to
have ten kids', then 1 have 10
say ’so be it’."

The programmes took ten
months to make and though
the schedule and the locations
might have taxed a woman
half her age — she rude over
Java in a mierolite and across
the Sahara on a came! — Dr
Goodfield found her years a
positive advantage. "When
you get to be of grandmother!),
age . . . you are neither j
threat nor a temptation."

In some ways Dr Goodfield
epitomises the successful sec-
ond and third chance's in life
Until she was 45 she was an
“orthodox academic” with .1
doctorate in the hi<|i»n *:i
philosophy and science, then
her life fell apart: she mi.cn:-
lied the onl> baby she ever
managed toeoncehe: her hus-
band. a fellow academic, left
her for a student: her broihci
died. “My life was in shreds, i
decided to take a drastic
decision to change it all."

She started writing popular
science books which, in mm.
led to her discovert 1 by tele-
vision at the aye of 57. "It's
nonsense to believe because
you're past a certain aye juu
can't do this or that. 1 ant vert
conscious of how privileged
I've been but women hare
tremendous energy and possi-
bility. Life is not over at 40 or
50 or 60. I'd say go for it.”

Growing concern: June Goodfield

What would make her die
happy, she says, is to be proved
wrong about the future. “I'd
like to know that we had
started to change things, that
the coming generations faced
difficult problems but nor
catastrophic ones. Then I'd
just be another old lady com-
plaining that Punch was not as
funny as it used to be."

Liz Gill

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The British are moving into the capital of the reunited Germany as business rapidly picks up. Rachel Kelly reports

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T he news was “appalling",
Sir Brian HAL the Build-
ing Employers Confed-
eration president, said last
week, “Awful”, added Nigel Chal-
decott the director general of the
Building Materials Producers. Any
housebuilder or developer will
know to what they refer, me latest
figures from the environment
department that show an 18 per
cent fall in new building orders
during the last year.

- The fall is the worst since the
1 974 oQ crisis. Total annual output
for the UK construction industry,
which includes office blocks, as well
as homes and schools, was £15
billion, compared to £20 billion
spent at the height of the building
boom in the 1 980s.

As even the memory of that boom
fades, British builders are casting
round Europe for the next boom
city. Until recently, Barcelona was
king, thanks to the Olympics: Now
Berlin has grabbed the crown.

Bolin’s emergence as Europe's
construction city reflects its status as
die capita] of a reunited Germany.
The move of the capital from Bonn
in the far west of Germany to Beilin
in die centre of what was East
Germany has made a building site
not just of Beilin, but of much of the
five states of the former communist
regime The latest federal govern-

ment estimates project total annual

construction spending of £60 bil-
lion for the next 15 years, which
puts British construction, even than
of the 1980s. in the shade

Walter Bau. Germany’s third
biggest builder, has told possible
dients who want him to put up
buildings to form a queue, such is
the volume of work. Clients will go
on a waiting list for projects to start
next spring.

Much of the building work is

public sector projects such as the
redevelopment of the Schonefeld

redevelopment of
airport a new underground station
at Lehrter, east Berlin, and a new
railway station. On October 2.
Ronald Reagan is booked to lay the
cornerstone on the £120 million
American Business Centre at the
former Checkpoint Charlie.

Then there are the buildings to
house federal government depart-
ments, which now have only small
outposts in the new capital and will
move from Bonn soon, though
nobody knows quite when. Suitably
grand housing for the civil servants
will have to be provided.

Haidiy surprising, then, that
British developers are already lap-
ping up opportunities and scouting
for new ones. Godfrey Bradman is
applying for planning permission
for a -250-acre business park near
Schonefeld airport Heron and

The old camp was built in 1972 around a secluded lake, left

Stanhope are in town. The contrac-
tors Bovis and Wimpey have offices
in Berlin and Tarmac is nearby in
Leipzig.

The architects Nicholas Grim-
shaw, Arup Associates. Sir Norman
Foster & Partners. Richard Rogers
Partnerhip and Conran Roche are
all ax drawing boards in Berlin.
Engineers and charmed surveyors
abound.

Typical of die English at work
are plans to transform a former
holiday camp used by the Stasi.
East Germany’s disbanded security
police agency, into luxury residen-
tial homes: from swords into
timeshares. to coin a phrase. The
developer is Christopher Allen, like
his compatriots hit by the British

slump, and in Germany in search
of pastures new. He went there a
year ago to investigate opportuni-
ties and has teamed up with a
young German businessman.

EC Harris, the quantity surveyor
company, is managing Mr Allen's
project “There is great demand for
residential property in Germany,”
says Brian Lfllecrap of Harris.

The site is near Potsdam, the
capital of Brandenberg. As in other
regional capitals establishing them-
selves as new administrative cen-
tres, then is demand for new
housing.

“Demand is put at 200.000 new
housing units,” Mr Lillecrap says.
“ Little of the existing housing stock
is of good enough quality”

Many such homes are plagued
by asbestos and need to be renovat-
ed or rebuilt.

The original holiday camp was
built in 1 972 around a freshwater
lake. Hidden in the middle of the
country and screened by poplars,
the camp consists of 20 simple
bungalows with showers and mini-
mal cooking facilities, and a central
dining and recreational block
where the Stasi used to be served
their meals.

The bungalows slept four with
views of the lake. Signs of the the
life the Stasi once enjoyed still
remain: pedalos and wicker chairs
that would have once lined the lake
shore are neatly stored.

Mr Allen assembled a team of

British architects. Coveil Matthew's
Wheatley and Conran Roche,
which is already based in Berlin;
and engineers Waterman Interna
□onal to demolish the existing
bungalows and build two. three
and five-bedroom homes, all with
double garages and modem con-

veniences.

The £13.8 million scheme has six

tennis courts, a tennis dub, a
nature reserve and a day centre on
ihe seven-hectare (about 2.S acres)
site. The 1 06 homes will be built in
two stages to take advantage of
Lake Schlanitzsee. from which the
project lake its name.

The architecture will. Mr
Lillecrap says, “lean heavily on
Tuscan proportions". He adds:
“The tiled roofs will be pitched, the
stone will be a honey-golden colour
and there will be arches." The two-
bedroom homes will sell for
£165.000, the three-bedroom
homes for £220,00, five-bedroom
ones for £5 00.000 (no timeshare on
offer) and will be aimed at a
predicted influx of rivil servants
and government officials, as well as
second-homeowners.

The site was owned by local
families, who were forced to sell
their strips of land to the Stasi when
it wanted a consolidated block big
enough for its plans. The farmers
regained their land after the col-

lapse of the Berlin w.df.
developers have since suavssli
negotiated a deal.

That is a success noteworthy hi
country where unresolved own
ship elainis and di^nites h:t
prevented much development ji
enraged entrepreneurs. So far. Mr
Allen has yet io crack the plaiinm*.
nut. the second scourge tacit i
developers.

For public sector projects delay
are endemic while the Cicnn.u;
government toys between enooir
aging a broadly neo-classical or
modernist feel to principal sites an
wrestles with the complexities nf the
country's new infrasimeture: si*
new rail. road, and underground
routes, and the airport.

To persuade the local commun-
ity, Mr Allen is offering to build a
tunic for the locals in return fur
planning permission on a larger
site than the original Stasi camp,
which covered three-and-a-haif
hectares, known in Britain as
“planning gain".

There is some urgency: tax
concessions for development in the
east run out at the end of 1 994 . B\
then, though, perhaps the British
construction industry will have re-
covered sufficently to provide an al-
ternative to working in Germany,
and the likes of Mr Allen will have
returned to work on home soil.

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A 1 903 diary
describes the last
changes made
to a Devon
farm

THE DIARY describing
work on Tucketfs Farm in
Devon is written in slim note-
books in a hand suggesting
strength of mind and charac-
ter allied to the kind of self-
assurance that goes with old
money, a landed estate and a
public school background:

"Sept 9 1903. Selected pos-
ition for farmhouse. Young
apple trees which will oe
displaced being transplanted.
Discussed water supply and
alternation to buildings.

"Jan 2 1904. Met Will Green
at Newton Abbot on my way
up to town, he absolutely
charmed with the picturesque
beauty of the site. Walked to.
Combeinteignhead to see Pen-
well the builder and question
him about mdterials; etc.
Bricks and limestone come
from Torquay. Limestone J
shilling a load plus 5 shillings
for cartage. The art of build-
ing cob walls is lost, and
would he very costly nowadays.
the labour of mixing and the
time required for each layer to
dry being extreme."

The diarist was Philip
Tucfcett, barrister, whose fam-
ily had owned the south
Devon property since the early
1 7th centuiy. The site was on
high ground less than half a
mile from the south foreshore
of the Teign Estuary and two
miles from the market town of
Newton Abbot.

Will Green, bom William
Curtis Green, was a personal
friend of TucketL who was

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Rare example of a one-room cob cottage onTuckett’s farm, probably built in the 1 8th century

then aged 30. In 1904. at 29.
he was still two years short of
foil qualification as an archi-
tect Bui with ten years of
study and practical design ex-
perience behind him. he had
already developed a style that
was later to link his reputation
with that of Sir Edwin
Lutyens. Romney, his brother,
was a poet and a craftsman in
the William Morris tradition.

.'The buildings" consisted of
a late 17th-century cider, or
“pound" house of plastered
cob (day, gravel and straw)
with a thatched roof and a
horse-powered timber and
granite rider press; an early
18 th-century, one-room cot-
tage, very rare of its kind; a
somewhat later, thatched cob
stable, its loft ingeniously
adapted as a children's play-
room; and a “linhay". or open
bam. also thought to be 1 8th-
centuiy.

The planned “alterations
concerned not so much the
existing buildings as addi-

tions: a new thatched bam of
local sandstone and a
thatched, 30ft-deep “well-
house” as a rain-water cistern.

"Sept 19 1904. Found the
house well advanced, the
drains laid, the water trough
fixed in the yard, the pound
fenced.

" October 28 1904. Down to
Newton with Will Green by
early train. Drove out to
Netherton by cab (fare 2/6d).
Found the house very nearly
finished. Unpacked crockery,
beds , etc. Thoroughly enjoyed
ourselves cooking supper and
afterwards watching two white
owls hawking around the
house.”

The site of Tuckelt’s Farm-
house is as captivating today
as ever it was. Bishopsteighton
and Combeinteignhead are
no longer hamlets with exclu-
sively native populations, but
the views from the apple or-
chards and the thick-hedged
paddocks, and from the top of
the still-narrow lane and from
the bedrooms of the Curtis
Green house at Tuckert’s have
changed little.

Listed Grade II* the
Tucketfs Farm buildings are
basically as they were when
the present owner’s grandfa-
ther and Curtis Green un-

packed the crockery and
furniture that Romney Green
had designed. In the pound
house, the timber componen ts
of the cider press are in
disarray, the iron wheels of an
ancient trolley are the worse
for a century or two of rust,
and a long-abandoned. 20th-
century bicyde itself looks well

A Tinhay” or open bam. thought to be lSth-centuiy

advanced towards archaeolog-
ical significance. In the cob
stable, a can that has not taken
the road since anyone can
remember looks as if it might
do so again with no
mechanical problems.

In the loft, among the
timber climbing devices and a
cider barrel play chute, and
wooden dolls prams and cra-
dles, the century-old hessian
hammock alone is in obvious
need of repair.

Apple trees — Cornish
Gilliflower, Fair Maid of
Taunton. Peasgood Nonsuch
— have come and gone, but
Blenheim Orange. Ribston
Pippin, Adams Pearmain and
Cox’s Superb still flourish and
a lofty mulberry, though
swathed in clematis, is heavy
with luscious fruit The four-
ton granite water trough is
where it has always been.

Owls still hunt, there are
bats in the 17th-cenfoiy cot-
tage and fust editions of
James Fennimore Cooper,
Jack London and William le
Queux gather what tittle dust
there is in one of the
bedrooms.

Are the books and die
Romney Green furniture in-
cluded at the asking price of
£250.000 for the 75-
acre time warp (5 bed; 3 rec
2 bth; kic dairy. “With scope
for modernisation and im-
provement")?

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Philip Tucken, wistfully.
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is genuinely proud of the work they do. So if you
j are in your mid 20's to early 30's; want a quality
I job with security and a prestige organisation is
jj highest on your agenda and you take real pride
8 in your work, we'd like to talk to you.

18-21 Jenayn Street. London SW1Y 6HP
Telephone 071 734 7341 Facstafe 071 734 3260

Maine - Tucker

AT HOME IN
WESTMINISTER

Circa £13,000 + Perks

Two young determined men are naming an
exciting venture tor a well established company
set in the leafy elegance of a majestic
Westminister square. In these beautiful offices
you feel as if you are away from an the tpind.
and yet the energy that surrounds a hard-
working successful business is very much In
evidence. Are you the third person to make up
this team? Someone who laughs a lot? Who
Iftes to play-hard and work-hard? You will need
good accurate typing but no shorthand and as
much secretarial experience as possible. If
you're tiie sort of person that a lovely job &
environment are important but you also must
have Lime and energy to live in the evenings.-?
this could be your job.

18-21 Jotnyn Street London 5W2Y 6HP
Telephone 071 734 7341 Fxsimife 071 734 3260

IARY

OF

TELEPHONE:

071-481 4000

RU4 US?

ADMIN. ASST. NEEDED URGENTLY

Young, smart, flexible, numerate. literate, determ inded, calm
Ofl). witty, honest kind, miracle worker.

For; typing, telephones, fifing, talking, organising, invoicing,
foxing, copying, marketing, post errands, watering, laughing
and lunch.

Please be our new Admin. Asst Salary corrqpletBly negotiable.
Cafl Cross S e l ecti on on 071 283 0799.

CROSS

SELECTION

SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND
AFRICAN STUDIES

University of London

Thomhaugh Street Russell Square. London,
WC1H OXG

PART TIME SECRETARY

A pan-rime secretary (15 houn a week, Monday to Friday)
is required for the Centre far African Studies. The suc-
cessful applicant mil be able to type qmddj and
accurately using a word process or and to do audio typing.
Shorthand would be an advantage.

Salary scale: £5,685 - £6,442 (for 15 hours) »*-*’«* "g
London Allowance.

Application forms surf further information from the Per-
sonnel Office, School of Oriental African Studio,
Thomhaugfa Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H
OXG (tel: 071-657 2388 ext. 2234.)

Closing date: Friday, 25 September 1992
SO AS is an equal opponumries employer.

Perfect PA
c. £18,000

InwHiynt and HifhmwOif PA IS wight fry the

dy namic Mattering D ire ctor of a bine-chip Gty

firm r nimm inirqinn jj y o OT fane ««4 tfre

telephone your best frieod for most of the day as
you coordinate Press, publishers and partners
alike. Hus must be backed up by superb

mClCMri al 4iilh (100/60/vp) ml fu pnto inwl

ability to ran his business life with efficiency and
ease. A scactaritl background in PR, prefisfafy
within dm City, A Levels and a sente erf humour
ew»titi.I Age 24 - 32. Please teleph one Victoria
Hmr riMg tna on 071 377 9919 far father ifataBa.

MARKETING MUSIC
£16.000 & Excellent Pkg

Do you want to be pest of an expanding marketing
tram within internationally renowned com p a ny ?

Yon will be responsible for promotions and
spon so rship, and wQl liaise with diesis worldwide.
Your commitment and enthusiasm tn ge d wr with the
desire tb contribute are vital. If yon take pride in year
work, ate as effective co mm i mi ca i o r and enjoy a
dynamic a«<t fast-moving env iro nment, call us today.
Skills 80/60. Age 25-3 5. lan g u a ges useful

POLISHED 2nd JOBBERS

£14.000

071 287 7788

/ W1 BANKING *
c£20,000 Package -

Join this small prestigious investment bank with °
offices worldwide as a secretary on Corporal* “
Investment A flexKito professional erftfi a finance °
background is needed to provide aecretariri “
backup tor two young managers. Tout er)oy a >
vary Iriantfiy te em enveorwant, Excefiantbaneffix *
indude a January review, dfecretfonary bonus. “
free lunches and paid overtime. 60 wpm typing. «
MS Word far Vfexfows. Languages useftd. p,
Ptaeaetriapboee 071 4990070 so

CAROLINE KING

v appointments

leading facilities and property management
organisation requires

PART-TIME

RECEPTIONIST/ TELEPHONIST

for their smart new (no smoking) office in the Gty
(MoorgaK/L‘pool St. Stations). Hours 13.15 to 18.00
his. The s u ccessf ul applicant will have an excellent teL
manner with good English grammar, mature/calm
personality and be smartly presented. Duties will
involve op e rati ng s/board, greeting all vision, typing
and general office duties. No previous s/board
experience nee. but knowledge of WordPerfect 5.1
essential. Applicants must be able to cover for holidays
and other absences.

Apply in writing only, with full cv and salary required
to Ann Brown, Facilities & P r op er ty Management Pic,
Hioorer Hoosc, 14 Hanover Sq, London W1R 9AJ.
(No agencies)

Our client, a p rof e ssion al West End
company are looking for a friendly and
bright secretary with at least 18 months
experience post • secretarial college. In
supporting this busy team you will use your
ski fie of 80/60wpm and your excellent
organisational and communication abilities
as you liaise with clients, coordinate diaries
and give full secretarial backup. A flexible
attitude, a sense of humour and good
presentation are a must. Please call Sarah
W illiams on 071 225 1888 to hear about this
exciting opportunity.

< t O R I 4 * 4 1

i' ( 1 I T l

Excellent prospects ore promised for
bright 'on the bdP team secretaries hi
this hectic department of a well known
investment Bank. Superb 'space-age'
offices and wonderful opportunities
await you if you have 60+ wpm auefio
and WP skifa, shorthand and languages
useful only. Age 23+

Please aril 071-408 0247
for more fatf on nu t ion

l Elizabeth Hunt

Recruitment Consultants

Perfect Match
to £23,000 - WC2

Young, dynamic Finance Director of a
successful, blue chip PLC needs an
energetic PA whose high standards
match his own. You will co-ordinate and
attend meetings, track the development
of projects, attend corporate functions
and provide fast secretarial support
(100/60/wp). The ideal candidate will
have Pic experience gained ax Board
level, confident social skills and a keen
interest in business. Age 26-35. Please
call Fiona Marriott on 071-437 6032.

vmm.

Warm Hearted?

£15,000

No overtime, on extra week’s holiday u
Christmas and long weekends 8 times a year!
These are just some of the peris offered by this
wonderful company ba sed in Victoria. They
build luxury homes in the UR and abroad so
your bosses are always om and about on
business. They rely on you to run the o ffi ce in
their absence, act as PA to the MD and provide
general secretarial support. Age 20-35. Skills
80/50.

Please call Srawamha B onder on 071-434 4512.

Crone Corkill

RECRUITMENT OOKSUUANTS

Come and temp
with us —

Up to SlO.OOph + Holiday Bonus

... as we have lots of interesting and highly paid assignments —
primarily for experienced secretaries with shorthand, good
presentation and excellent word processing/DTP skills (especi-
ally MS Word, WordPerfect 5.1 . AmiPro and Mass 1 1). Success-
ful temping also requires an open mind, a friendly manner and
an ability to deal at all levels. We specialise at senior level and
guarantee to give you the best back-up in the business. Ring us
now to join our busy team!

City - NBdri/Avcril 071-377 8827 W End- Julia/Tori 071-434 4512

Crone Corkill

hm RECRUITMENT Temps mmmmm—m CONSULTANTS —

Baring Venture Partners Limited
Junior Secretary W.l.

Baring Ventura Partners wishes to recruit a Junior Secretary for the Head Office ot its
expandkig pan-European venture capital business. Princqsal responsfoShes ncfcxSe
junior secretarial duties, reception of visitors, and telephone switchboard operation.
Suitable eandEdcrtes wR probably have a tertiary education quofification, be computer
iterate, non-smokers, ideafly fluent in French tmd/or German ml possWy seeking
their first job. Venture Capita! is o fast-moving business, populated by high motivated
and sometimes eccentric indmduQl Only self starters with a sense of humour should
apply. Salary sidtject to quaifications and experience. Please apply in writing giving
curriculum vitae and references, to David S. Muddieki, Baring Venture Partners
Limited, 140 Perk Lane, London WIY 3AA No agencies.

Urgmi. Stan m Lux

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Lap of Luxury!

£16 - X 18,000

Fashion , Television and chocolate. — what
do they have in These types of

companies are all clients of one of the most
high profile executive search firms in the
world. The consultant who looks after
them needs an excepti onal right hand who
raw j eni o aB mc initiative, ''harm and
superb organisational rirflin Working from
stunning Green Park offices you will need
drills of 65+ typing/ audio /wp as well as a
good secretarial track record. Age 25 - 32.

Fkase telephone Joanna on 071 434 4512.

Crone CorkiU

REQUIRED
IMMEDIATELY
SECRETARY/PA
FOR CHAIRMAN

ot 4 noalJ I maunem
Managonaa Compaoy moated

The MCCtstfuJ aprtkwn is likriy
to luve agm/tem enxnence and
be between tfcr am of M and 45.
The abOary to afee dehaom end

Executive f

^ Secretary £

< £20.000 + ►

4 Benefits J

^ Senior pCKItea hft Kwen W
jj in flu* leading I himriri ^
^ cotspanr. located in w

4 uperti office*, oaikam ^
fof the MD YouH be W

j, eapcool w prowfc fag w
^fiJ sec mpprai. Pre»ent«kio te 1
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on! ibe abilily » waA W
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5 and Csreltao Rogen W

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CLIENT LIAISON
ASSISTANT
£14,000

We are looking for an enthusiastic
individual to play a central role 01 one of our
account teams.

The role involves liaising with clients,
providing advice, handling queries and
processing orders.

You wfif need a confident telephone
manner, basic presentation skills and strong
administr ativ e and organisational abilities.

Previous work experience is essential
and an appreciation of marketing would be an
advantage.

Please write enclosing your cv to:

Mavis Rennie DDM Advertising Ltd
Met ro po li s House 22 Percy Street
London W1P 9FF

Dream Team
To £9 per hot

ms

TttOTSSBML

iliiinrr

We believe our temp team is the most
professional in London and it’s you who
keep our reputation so high. With a busy
autumn ahead we’re happy to say we now
need more secretaries and receptionists to
join ns. Our interesting, blue chip clients
expect excellent skills, presentation and
enthusiasm from our team and in return
we will give you top rates and the sort of
friendly, professional service you deserve.
Please call Sally or Liz on 071—437 6032.

PERSONAL EXCELLENCE

- £ 22,000

The hectic business and social schedules of this
Chairman necessitate a full-time Private Secretary
to look alter the personal side of his life. This
includes running his homes in London and the
country, liaising with staff, family matters and
coping with the immense number of things .
needing his attention. Skills 100/60. Age around
30. Car owner.

DIRECTORS’ SECRETARIES
071 629 9323

tMBfth care. nexMbne & marie tiers.

Aa « LOWUME MIM, 071 *08 0011

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UHno w iBfJwtoi-rasB)

SECRETARY

Mature and regpom&fe
saaretary saugbt to work
for Principal m ibe West
End office of an
foteraotiooal property
■Dvutmeat advisory fins.
WordPerfect and |
caraaerdol property
aperieece preferable.
Good salary, dberetionary
aremal bonus and PPP.
Please reply with fid CV to:
Penny Softer 6/8 Old Bead
Street. LaadoaWlXTTA
or fax an 07! 493 6435
NOAGENOE5

FILING CLERK

The PeminnH D epar t m ent of a
large financial iwannren bned
in the Gay requires a
picfa si onal person a handle
dirir general daily filing, deal
sridi telephone queries, arganiie
mtcnul mail dmu and
parr i ripair in sarimnad
hoepreieox.

Candidates should ha»e a
p oet i se and nra fere iaal atthnde,
exedka tdephore mannerand
the abffity in wort unsupersireL
Prerioui eapericsaz ini

renfidwifiil p osi t ion D OMDtuL

Heme wad a dcaaBad CT 10

7 V I. ', r .

SECRETARY >

£15,500 + Bnnkiog Benoffts

Tfw we* known American Investment Barft
good prospects and excefcm benefits.
You 2i I 0 *’ a team of tfwee young bankers and
provide fid secretarial support. Set up meetings,
wronge trove/ and liaise on the telephone. Fast
, wpfn ? 'rordprocessing skds needs, shorthand
Profwrod and languages useful Age 23+

We«e telephone 071-248 3744.

2/3 Bedford SZrest, Caveat Garden, 1

LmtenVnSESHD |

Elizabeth Hunt h

i ^S»^ Recruitment Consultants SS

MORSE/SECRETARY

reqi*ed(UMlme}tonn
busy prtvxta practice far 3
ronsidtant 8urgeona. Ve«y
tmpowtota position. Warm
paraonaHy and Word
Processing stills
(WordPerfect 5.1) essentlal/-
desknbie. Sat neg.
ApptaOons » wbtlng to:
Fa/CLM, 88 Harley Sfreel
London WIN 1AE.

SOUTH

KENSINGTON

l?* t Secretory required tor
tnenfly npondng fan
HUtan. Ward Pwfect/
Wandptei inparience cssaritisL
Goad Satan.

Aopty vitfa CV to DAVID M1L1S,
L/ByrfMa, fiopk Chaaben.

48 OrjJoo Gardent,

Laadoa SW7 3AH.

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071-481 4481

CREME DE LA CREME

071-481 9313
071-782 7828

MULTILINGUAL

OPPORTUNITIES

RECRUITMENT CONSULTANT
£ 25 , 000 ++ OTE

Dua to Bxpanston wo are seeking another

w

Multi-lingual PA to Chairman £18,000+ Bens.

Dynamic Chairnuu of this prestigious Company urgently needs a
rip-tup HA with sxceBem sec. skills. 100/60. Good presentation,
interpersonal skills. Gcrraan/ItaSan/'Spaoiih'Tirndi sec s loci
no ftmhtt. Esceflenl prospects for the right person.

Design Company/West End £16.000

Fun. suing Company is looking fora 2nd jobber Any language
■ plus, preferably French. Sthrpro. Duties include, diary, travel
arrangements, organizing meetings- Very hectic environment!
Ram Secretary £14,500+ Bens.

This veil established Company is looking for an experienced,
organised, responsible team secretary. Translations and
involvement are offered with this position. Musi be bilingual
German and have knowledge of WordPerfect 5.1 WP. Exeefbu
career prospects.

If you have any languages and possess good seaenrial driJk,
do not hesitate to call os.

BILINGUAL PEOPLE, 8 GOLDEN SQUARE, LONDON VlS JAF
TELEPHONES I7MI} UN FAX NUMBER: 071-2872832

FRENCH
PAIN
DESIGN
El M 00

3x FRENCH/ G ERMAN
SFKG SECS SWITZER-
LAND fEXCEL

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40 Ik Vat Louden. mm. Good FfeaetyGenBUL A#> 23+

JAPANESE
SENIOR SEC IN BANK-
ING, £17.000 + EXCEL
BANKING BENS

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tor a t Hi' — i ^-p — ■
ratine ■ ««t ■ Sewnwi. AppS-

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Tel: 071 287 6060

Fax: 071 494 4652

SUPER SECRETARIES

PART TIME

vacancies

m&m

r-irr - .r'y' T 1 t t* * ”

PA lo Chairmen. Ttm t» primer
U» an ■uun-aw m rot* won ■
nunnRjii xcmulal content,
wvrfctne Tor the C*wunwon at

IMS MUhtV suOCtMU FMCC

ooenaun. You win M o find,
bto, profniamJ PA with previ-
ous board level experie n ce of a
nupor UK cetnpenv. Hc la D*k 6
in Avert! oilKcs in nwio. and

CAREER PA - PARIS c£20K

If you are an Eng m/t thirty-something tor whom a Job b
more than Just that It you have excellent Ft and sartor level
exp, some of which has been gained hi Paris, then tills could
be the job tor you. As right arm to busy PDG/Chakman, you
wffl na® souid sec exp (Eng & Fre s/h pmf) end wtsff-
flawtopep or ga nisat io nal Ms. a quick thinker. with
preeamoioo and profe wl o nsB cm a must

PA TO MD - NR SWINDON c£16K

real fixer required tor feiwohranant with set up at now offices
as wea as usual PA duties. Hndbtity and stamina tor tong
houra a must.

LONDON *71 584 6446

PARIS 44 63 02 57

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With Hazel! Staton Recruitment standards are
high in every respect. Varied assignments
combined with competitive rates make lumping
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We have assignments for secretarial & WP
temps; Word for Windows, Freelance. Wang
Macdraw & Powerpoint skills are in special
demand. For a fast <ft efficient service, call
Nicki Smith or Gill Rebbeck on 071 439 6021

HA2ELL- STATON

RECRUITMENT SPECIALISTS

RECEPTION SELECTION

GROSVENOR

£13,000

Expandng Promotions company are looking for a
friendly and professional receptionist to front thalr busy
west End offices.

Candidates must be wel presented, flexHe and able to
take on adminlstralive tasks as we> as greeting dents
and the usual reception duties.

Young, Ivety environment, so early 20s preferred.

GROSVENOR BUREAU LTD RECRUITMENT
TEUO71490 6B66 CONSULTANTS

WIMWWa - work
Werttowu- oBera l«-l tnUon
Ko uimi t rain on a half-day
course. £60 Inducing manual
Mon. - SaL Abo. (DOB)
WordPerfect. MSWanL Mum-
male. DWa. TeL- OBI 647 6204.

arda needed! In return ftvjnv
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for Windows OHM), ws can pun
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out or me hal for you. Coot

AMBITIOUS GER-
MAN BILINGUAL
SECRETARY

(English. French) seeks
Interesting and varied
PA position. Good
accuale typing. German
shorthand and Word
Processing. Ideally
London area. Please
reply to
Box No. 1663.

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LIFE & TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1992

CHANNEL 4

6.00 Ceefax (61622) 6J0 BBC Breakfast News (78955719)

9.05 Perfect Strangers. American comedy series (r) (6336974)

9*30 Liberal Democrats Conference 92. Live coverage of the third
day's proceedings at Harrogate. On the agenda are the
privatisation of British Rail and British Coal and the debate on
Britain in Europe. Coverage continues at 10.35 (37429)

10.00 News, reqional news and weather (4548239) 10.05 Pfaydays. For
the very yroung (s) (9423177) 1025 Barney (r) (4541326)

1035 Liberal Democrats Conference 92. Further live coverage from
Harrogate. Indudes News (Ceefax) and weather at 11.00 and
1Z00 (82169351) 12.55 Regional News and weather
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1.00 One O'Oock News. (Ceefax) Weather (11500)

1.30 Neighbours. (Ceefax) (s) (43142061) 1.50 Eldorado (r). (Ceefax)
(s) (45883448)

2.20 Hawaii five-O. Hawaii-based America) police drama series
starring Jack Lord and James MacArthur (5396448) 3.10 Pot Black
Timeframe. Pot-against-the-dodc snooker competition,
presented by Eamonn Holmes. Today's game is between Jimmy
White and Dennis Taylor. The commentators are Ted Lowe and
Willie Thome (3630142)

3*35 Tom and Jerry Double Bill. Cartoons (4546974) 3-50 The AD
New Popeye Show (r) (5292974) 4.15 Potsworth and Co.
Sdence fiction animation (r) (641 3852) 435 The Worst Day of
my Life. The first of a new Australian comedy drama series centred
on children who find the unimaginable happening. (Ceefax)
(8740332)

5.00 Newsround (3601352) 5.10 Grange Hill. Drama serial set in a
secondary school (r). (Ceefax) (s> (3367784)

535 Neighbours (r). (Ceefax) fc) (354332). Northern Ireland: Inside
Ulster

6.00 Six O'Oock News with Anna Ford and Andrew Haney. (Ceefax)
Weather (871)

630 Regional News (Magazines (351). Northern Ireland: Neighbours

7.00 Eldorado. (Ceefax) (s) (9239)

730 Liverpool in Europe. Live coverage of the European Cup Winners'
Cup, first leg match between Liverpool and Apollon Limassol at
AnfiekJ, introduced by Desmond Lynam. The commentators are
John Motson and Trevor Brooking with studio analysis from Alan
Hansen and Jimmy Hill (40626)

930 Main News with Martyn Lewis. (Ceefax) Regional news and
weather (48581)

Victims of the flesh trade: women are deported (1040pm)

10.00 Inside Story: The Women Trade.

• CHOICE: Chris Terrill's film is an expose, making much use of
hidden cameras, of what it likes to call the flesh trade. Women
filmed in shadow to avoid identification tell how they were
recruited in eastern Europe or the Caribbean to work in dubs in
Rotterdam and Antwerp. They thought they were going to be
dancers or waitresses. Instead they were trapped into becoming
strippers, or even worse, prostitutes. The programme indudes a
long interview with an alleged Mr Big of this disreputable trade,
who blandly denies any knowledge of unsavoury goings-on. But
the stomach-churning stories offered by his employees, enhanced
by revealing undercover work by the Inside Story team posing as
procurers, render his protestations hollow. This is an impressive
piece of investigation into an unedrfying subject (Ceefax) (295055)

10.50 Film: The Breakfast Club (1985) starring Emilio Estevez. Comedy
drama about five disparate young people who are forced to spend
a Saturday high school detention together during which they break
the rules, bare their souls and discover that they have more in
common than attending the same school. Directed by John
Hughes. (Ceefax) (10791516). Northern Ireland: European Soccer
Special (Glentoran v Marseilles) 1 1.30-1 .05am Film: Chato's Land;
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The Breakfast Club 12.55 News and weather
1235am Weather (1515659). Ends at 1230

2.15 BBC Select Accountancy Television (188712) 3.15 TV Edits
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8 M Breakfast News (91 12326)

8.15 Writers' Houses. Seamus Heaney visits Dove Cottage, the Lake
District home of William Wordsworth (r) (9208177) 830 The
Italians. A portrait of Mauro Fiamenghani, a union representative
at the Alfa Romeo factory near Milan (16448)

9.00 Daytime on 2. Educational programmes

ZOO News and weather followed by You and Me (r) (40729968)

Z15 Liberal Democrats Conference 92 from Harrogate. Animal
protection and the future of the party following the general
election are discussed this afternoon Presented by Donald
MacCormick, Vivian White and Ian MacWhirter. Indudes News
(Ceefax) and weather at 3.00 and 330 (89855239)

530 Inside the Russia House. A documentary about four advertising
students from Newcastle upon Tyne who went to Moscow in
November 1 991 as part of an exchange scheme (r) (500)

6.00 Star Trek. Classic sdence fiction drama series starring William
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6.50 DEF II begins with Wayne's World. American comedy series.
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her mother who is severely disabled with multiple sclerosis (r)
(265871)

740 The Shetland Sessions. Aiy Bain introduces music from the 1991
Shetland talk Festival (54 1429)

8.10 The Un-Americans: To Hell With Truth.

• CHOICE: The three-part series on America's communist witch
hunt concludes by examining the dilemma faced by thousands
hauled before the Un-American Activities Committee of whether
to name names. A scientist who couW not face the ordeal
committed suicide. His widow recalls finding the body and accusing
the committee of helping to kill him. Not everyone showed the
same courage. A maverick called Harvey Matusow, a former
communist turned informant, told the committee the first piece of
nonsense that came into his head and became a media celebrity.
One of his "revelations" was that 126 commies were working for
the 5unday New York Times when there were only 96 people on
the staff. Matusow is unapologetic, determined to add his
facetious footnote to what was hardly a laughing matter (164239)

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Dressed to thrill: Cranham, Swann, Cunningham (9.00pm)

9.00 SoreenPlay: A Little Bit of Lippy.

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Orton's macabre humour. In fact to call A Little Bit of Lippy a
comedy is to stretch the meaning of that word. A teenage wife
(played by Alison Swann) discovers that her husband (Danny
Cunningham) is a transvestite and beats a path back to Mum and
Dad (Rachel Davies, Kenneth Cranham). But all is not well with the
pfencs' mirage. either, and Hesford's script parallels the
attempts of the two couples to resolve their difficulties. In doing so
he counterpoints a naturalistic setting in the woridng-dass north
with frequent excursions into fantasy and illusion. The point is hard
to determine, except perhaps that the real wprid is so humdrum we
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10.10 Screenplay Firsts: Supper at Emmaus. An art historian teaches a
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1030 Newsnight (702055)

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9-25 Win, Lose or Draw. Celebrity game show presented by Danny
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62)0 Home and Away (r). (Orade) (444142)

635 Thames News (803671)

Tears and accusations: the reading of Ted's will (640pm)

640 Coronation Street (Orade) (237429)

7.10 The European Match. A double bill of live action. From Germany.
Leeds United’s European Cup first round, first leg match against
Stuttgart At about 9.00 there are highlights of the first half ami live
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10.40 Film: Obsession (1976) starring Cliff Robertson and Genevieve
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kidnapped on his tenth wedding anniversary and disappear
without trace. Sixteen years later he goes to Florence where he first
met his wife and encounters a young woman who is his wife's
double. Directed by Brian DePaima (66127531)

1230 Hollywood Report Gossip from Tinsel Town (54017)

14M FBnr The Body Stealers (1 969) starring George Sanders. Sdence
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Z45 America's Top Ten (s) (4161 1)

3.1 5 Videofashion. The creations of some New York designers
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340 Quiz Night Inter pub and dub competition ( 74Q45901 )

4.10 Grand Ole Opry. Country and western music from Nashville,
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440 Fifty Years On (b/ta). Vintage newsdips (88335272)

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530 UN Morning News with Phil Roman (84746). Ends at 6.00

64)0 Channel 4 Daily (56S65S1)

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1.00 Sesame Street. Early learning senes (49210)

ZOO Great Russian Writers. A profile of Alexander Block. With Enghsh
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230 film: Dubarty was a Lady (1943) starting Red Skelton, Gene Kelly
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attendant who wins a fortune in a lottery, proposes to the show’s
star, inadvertantfy drinks a Mickey Finn and dreams char he is in
France at the court of Louis XV. Directed by Roy Del Ruth
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430 Magoo Makes News. Cartoon (6467697)

430 Countdown. Another round of the words and numbers game
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530 The Oprah Winfrey Show. The first of two programmes devoted
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5.50 The Bunbury Tails. Animated adventures of a team of sporting
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6.00 Treasure Hunt Anneka Rice gushes around the Sussex
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7.00 Channel 4 News with Jon Snow and Zeinab Badawi. (Teletext)
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7.50 Comment (799582)

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830 inspector Morse: The Infernal Serpent The cerebral Oxford-
educated policeman, in the first of four repeats, investigates the
murder of an eminent scientist minutes before he was to gme a
controversial speech. Starring John Thaw. Kevin Whateley and
Geoffrey Palmer. (Teletext) (57887)

1030 Packing Them In. The second m the alternative comedy series set
in a variety theatre, hosted by Jenny Eclair, Frank Skinner and Kevin
Eldon. Tonight’s guests are Lily Savage, Kinky Friedman and Anver
the Eccentric (s) (893351)

11.15 Mojo Working. The last in the series profiles Jimi Hendrix (s) *
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1 1.45 Marc Bolan — The Legendary Years. A 1 5th anniversary tribute
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1977 (433142)

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America of 1957 (69017)

1.15 Film: Seeta aur Geeta (1 972). Hindi drama about twin sisters who
have a double date with destiny. One resigns herself to fate while
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330 A Third Look Bade In the
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PCWs" vaulting horse of Stalag
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445 Short Story: The Railings, by
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